western art

The C.M. Russell Museum announced today the gift of two important watercolors by Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) and the personal research library of Frederic G. Renner by the estates of Renner and his wife, Ginger K. Renner, both of Scottsdale, Arizona, and their families. The two watercolors are When I Was a Kid (1905), a self-portrait of the artist as a young man in buckskins, riding his pinto Monte and accompanied by the trapper Jake Hoover, and Meat for the Wagons (1925), a late work ...

On Saturday, September 15, 2012, Trailside Galleries of Jackson, WY and Scottsdale, AZ, in partnership with the Gerald Peters Gallery of Santa Fe, NM are pleased to present the sixth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction at the Center for the Arts in downtown Jackson Hole.   This annual live auction has quickly become one of the premier western art events in the country, defined by the high standard of works offered by both contemporary western artists and deceased masters. Works by ...

The C.M. Russell Museum is pleased to present the third annual The Russell: The Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum. An exhibition of more than 260 live and silent auction works are on view at the C.M. Russell Museum from February 24 to March 17, 2012, with three days of fundraising activities taking place March 15–17. The Russell comprises three distinct events with all proceeds benefiting the museum’s operations. The exhibition and sale features artwork by celebrated living and deceased ...

  On February 11, 2012, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents more than 100 of the finest and best-preserved watercolors by Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) in the special exhibition Romance Maker: The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell. Never before have so many of Russell’s singular depictions of the Old West been brought together. The exhibition is on view through May 13, 2012; admission is free.             “Charles ...

W.R. Leigh’s Home, Sweet Home soared to nearly double its pre-auction estimate selling for $1.195 million and setting a new world record price for the artist in Heritage Auctions’ $2.27 million Art of the American West Signature® Auction, Saturday, Nov. 5. The painting came to auction from The Property of Philip Jonsson, son of former Dallas Mayor and Texas Instruments Co-Founder Eric Jonsson. Overall, the auction saw 262 bidders vying for just 74 total lots, translating into a 95% ...

  The fifth annual Jackson Hole Art Auction was held on September 17th at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming. Hosted by Trailside Galleries and Gerald Peters Gallery, more than 88% of the featured 250 lots sold, realizing over $9,000,000 in sales. As the auction got under way at 12:30 pm, more than 300 people filled the seats of the auditorium, with some 400 registered bidders.  Bidding was very active with close to 300 phone bids and absentee bids.  Internet bidders also ...

Matthew's Galleries "Fall Fine Arts Auction" promises a broad selection of 19th & 20th century American and European paintings, watercolors and fine prints: Modernism, Western, Northwest Regionalism, and Impressionist works.  Notable selections from the September 20, 2011 sale include "View from the Plaza" by Guy Carleton Wiggins, a 9" x 12" oil estimated at $15,000-25,000; an early figural painting by Kenneth L. Callahan, circa 1940, 20" x 30", the oil is estimated at $4,000-5,000; a ...

On August 26, 27 and 28, another Dixon (in the person of Leslie Dixon) will be on hand for the 12th annual Maynard Dixon Country art show and sale that benefits the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts.  Leslie is a gifted screenwriter whose credits include the recent hit “Limitless” as well as “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “The Thomas Crown Affair,” and “Hairspray.”   Leslie will be in Mt. Carmel, Utah, with her husband Tom Repelewski to present his documentary “Child of Giants” at the Saturday afternoon ...

  On Saturday,  September 17, 2011, Trailside Galleries of Jackson, WY, and Scottsdale, AZ, in partnership with the Gerald Peters Gallery of Santa Fe, NM, is pleased to present the 5th annual Jackson Hole Art Auction at the Center for the Arts in downtown Jackson.   This annual live auction has quickly become one of the premier western art events in the country, defined by the high standard of works offered by both contemporary western artists and deceased masters.  Works by such notable ...

The American West was a source of great fascination for Easterners and visitors to this country alike during the 19th century. Novelists such as James Fenimore Cooper and Charles Bird King capitalized on this fascination with books such as King’s Young Omaha, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees, featuring descriptions of wild mountain men and Native Americans that incited the public’s imagination about life on the frontier. Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874) was one of the first ...

After almost a century in a single private collection, Ernest Lawson's "Central Park" has re-emerged.  The painting, executed circa 1910, went from Lawson by way of Mac Beth Galleries directly to a private collection in the midwest. Representing the artist's best signature work, "Central Park" has not been exhibited or widely known until now, four generations later. A member of the often gritty Ashcan School, Lawson visited urban subjects, but through his own lens of Impressionism. ...

Cowan’s will offer in its March 25, 2011 American Indian and Western Art Auction an original bronze cast of Frederic Remington’s Broncho Buster, estimated to bring $200,000/300,000.  Exceptional examples of American Indian Art, including fresh-to-the-market beadwork, carvings, weavings and basketry, will also be offered. This particular Broncho Buster, cast 37, is an early lifetime cast of approximately 90 known to have been produced. The piece was owned by William Cooper Proctor ...

  Bonhams announces "The American Experience: 1630-1890," an auction of printed and manuscript Americana to be held on December 2, 2010 in New York.  Simulcast to San Francisco, the 300-lot no reserve auction is a multi-million dollar sale with individual estimates ranging from the low hundreds to six figures. It comprises the collection of well-known San Francisco-based bibliophile Bruce E. McKinney, a collector who has made it his mission to demystify the rarefied world of antiquarian ...

This October, explore the West through two new exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (DAM). On October 17, The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture, jointly organized by the DAM and Gilcrease Museum, will go on view. The first major retrospective of Russell’s most important paintings and sculptures, the exhibition will include 60 major works in oil, bronze and mixed media as well as a selection of objects that portray the charismatic Western ...