LOT 9 TED WADDELL

Billings, MT

White Sulphur Springs Angus #2, 2023 oil, encaustic on canvas, 60” x 60” estimated retail: $38,000

Born in 1941 in Billings, Montana, painter, sculptor, and rancher Theodore Waddell lives what he paints. Images of range animals roaming the vast plains of eastern Montana are rendered in an abstract lens with impressive atmospheric quality, suggestive of the slow grazing of the animals and transition of days. In earning his BFA at Eastern Montana, Waddell received early training with modernist painter Isabelle Johnson and was exposed to several Abstract Expressionists whom he would later credit for their deep influences, including figures like Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Waddell’s work can be found in museum collections nationwide and has been featured in exhibitions nationally and internationally, shown throughout China, Singapore, Sweden, Africa, and more.

Billings, MT

Window, 1974 reduction woodcut print, 21” x 30” estimated retail: $1,000

Edith Freeman (1913- 1992) began her artistic journey as a painter but would later master the art of reduction block woodcut printing after first experimenting with the process in a graphics media class with Montana painter Isabelle Johnson in the 1960s. Inspired by the landscapes surrounding her in eastern Montana, subjects like yucca, sage, iris, and sandstone forms were attentively captured using self-discovered techniques which included printing multiple colors using a single block and varying ink mixtures and applications to create interesting texture. Freeman’s legacy was honored in 1993 with her reception of the Montana Governor’s Award for the Arts.

Lot 11

Gesine Janzen

Bozeman, MT

Near Clarkston, 2011 lithograph on paper, 15.5” x 43.25” estimated retail: $800

For Gesine Janzen (b. 1967), the woodcut is her tradition and muse. The process, she shares, “connects me to landscapes, places, sensations, and memories.” Much like the printmaking process, Janzen’s prints embody a layered and narrative quality as she works to build imagined forms into being. Forms are shaped as they are remembered and born as they are wished into existence and draw upon the artist’s notion of place and self.