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The Russell: The Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum Raises Record Amount of $3.6 Million
Released: March 25, 2013Contemporary and deceased artists both raked in high prices during the evening live auction for The Russell: The Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum on Saturday, March 16, for a total of over $3.1 million in gross sales. New attendance records were set during the entire Russell weekend annual fundraiser, which included a silent auction and quick-finish event in addition to the live auction. The C.M. Russell Museum raised an approximate gross total of $3.6 million through The Russell, its primary fundraiser. The Russell live auction featured eight original Charles M. Russ...
Noted Plein Air Artist Tammy Callens Paints at Grand Teton National Park
Released: July 30, 2012By Tammy Christel (Jackson, WY) ~ "There is a small waterfall, just near the entrance to Yellowstone Park, that is one of my favorite places to paint," says Jackson Hole artist Tammy Callens. "I've been here 10 years, and I go back to that spot over and over. I love our mountains, but I am more often attracted to this area's intimate scenes; I like to zero in on the myriad valley scenes here, and on rivers and water." California born, raised in the lush redwood landscapes along that state's northern coast, plein air painter Callens has become a committed Jackson Hole plein air ar...
Famous depiction of Custer’s Last Stand makes first-ever auction appearance in Heritage Wild West event
Released: June 6, 2012Custer's Last Rally, 1881, John Mulvany ‘s epic 11 x 20 foot oil painting will sell at auction on June 10 at Heritage Auctions, part of the company’s Legends of The Wild West Signature® Auction. The painting, a truly blockbuster achievement, represents one of the great “One-Hit Wonders” of American painting and a cultural phenomenon in its time. The painting is expected to bring $200,000+ and is part of a special Custer grouping in the auction. “John Mulvany had his proverbial 15 minutes of fame when he unveiled his masterwork, Custer's Last Rally, in March of 1881,” said Tom Slater,...
Rarely-Seen Carl Rungius Landscape Studies in Jackson Hole Summer Exhibition
Released: April 17, 2012Carl Rungius famously said, “If you paint outdoor scenes in the studio, your color gets too hot. Only if you paint outdoors do you see the cool, silvery tones that are the true colors of nature.” A new exhibition, mounted by the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole explores Rungius’s approach to working en plein air that made him a veritable “Monet of the Mountains” according to Curator of Art Adam Duncan Harris. “Rugged Impressionism: The Masterful Field Studies of Carl Rungius,” May 1 – October 7, 2012, provides visitors with a rare view of artwork the renowned ...
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JACKSON HOLE ART AUCTION: An Auction of Past and Present Masters of the American West
Released: March 30, 2012On 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 such notable living artists as William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Ken Carlson, Martin Grelle, G. Harve...
The Estates and Families of Ginger K. and Frederic G. Renner Give Major Russell Paintings and Library to C.M. Russell Museum
Released: February 8, 2012The 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 showing a scout hunting bison for a wagon train, which was the first original Russell artwork that F...
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JACKSON HOLE ART AUCTION: An Auction of Past and Present Masters of the American West
Released: February 7, 2012On 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 such notable living artists as William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Ken Carlson, Martin Grelle, G. Harvey,...
C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM PRESENTS THE RUSSELL: THE SALE TO BENEFIT THE C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM
Released: January 12, 2012The 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 artists, including contemporary works by Andy Thomas, Greg Kelsey, Oleg Stavrowsky, Clark Kelley P...
Charles M. Russell’s Finest Watercolors on View at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art Beginning in February 2012
Released: December 20, 2011On 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 Russell is recognized today as a leading artist of the Old West,” says Dr. Rick Stewart, curator of...
W.R. Leigh’s Home, Sweet Home (1932) sets record with $1.195 million price in Art of the American West at Heritage Auctions
Released: November 9, 2011W.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% sell-through by value. All prices include 19.5% Buyer’s Premium. “We knew this was an exceptional and hist...
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Frederic Remington Leads $9 Million Jackson Hole Art Auction
Released: September 19, 2011The 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 participated in much of the sale. In just its fifth year, the Jackson Hole Art Auction has clearly distinguis...
Matthew's Presents Fall Fine Arts Auction
Released: September 3, 2011Matthew'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 watercolor of white roses by Paul De Longpre, 21" x 15" with a guess of $4,000-6,000; an early Olympic ...
12th annual Maynard Dixon Country art show and sale presents new documentary
Released: August 22, 2011On 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 symposium as part of the three-day event. “Child of Giants” is a ‘labor of love’ project about Les...
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JACKSON HOLE ART AUCTION, An Auction of Past and Present Masters of the American West
Released: August 16, 2011On 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 living artists as William Acheff, Clyde Aspevig, Ken Carlson, Martin Grelle, Bill Owen, G. Harvey, Ke...
Watercolor Exhibition Depicts Visions of Life on the American Frontier
Released: July 13, 2011The 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 American artists to paint the American West, producing beautiful watercolors of the remarkable l...
Impressionist Masterpiece Rediscovered
Released: May 16, 2011After 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. "Central Park" is a winter scene inside the Park looking east toward Fifth Avenue at 75th Street. T...
Cowan's to Offer Original Remington Broncho Buster in March 25 American Indian & Western Art Sale
Released: March 1, 2011Cowan’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 (1862-1934), President of Proctor and Gamble from 1907-1930, and gifted to his niece, noted collector Mary J...
The History of the United States: Books Charting The American Experience To Be Auctioned Without Reserve At Bonhams In New York
Released: November 11, 2010Bonhams 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 books. McKinney, the founder of a website devoted exclusively to book collecting, has included acquisi...
Masterworks of Charles M. Russell, Allen True’s West, Embrace! Insider Moments and other October highlights
Released: September 26, 2009This 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 artist in his own words and images. The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell, on view October 17, 2009, t...
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