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Echoes of the Big Sky - Day 2

Echoes of the Big Sky - Day 2

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Echoes of the Big Sky - Day 2

Echoes of the Big Sky - Day 2

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This two-day Auction has over 2000 lots to choose from.

Day 2:

The Collection of Montana Governor Judy Martz, The Collection of Monte Dolack, Vintage Motocross Racing Equipment, Bell Helmets, Native American Indian Artifacts, Navajo Rugs, Hopi Acoma and Zuni Pots, Native American Beadwork, California Indian Baskets, Chumash California Whale Effigy Stones, Rudy Ruana Knife Collection, Giant Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace, Osage Buffalo Hide Shield, Sitting Bull Owned Medicine Pouch, Navajo Chief's Blankets, Pope and Young Record Book Taxidermy Mounts, Big Horn Sheep Mount, Saloon Nude Painting from Million Dollar Cowboy Bar Jackson Hole Wyoming, Eskimo Carvings, Northwest Coast Art, 1949 Jennings Sun Chief Slot Machine, Accordion Collection, AMF Evel Knieval Bicycle, Carl worner Folk Art Bottle, Picasso Toreros Book, 14k Gold Vacheron Constantin Watch, and much more.

Western Artwork including (William Gollings, Charles M Russell, Philip Russell Goodwin, Randy Van Beek, Earle Erik Heikka, Monte Dolack, Bob Scriver, Carl Oscar Borg, Jim Davis, William... Show more

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Bruce Contway Little Pinch Before the Storm Bronze

Bruce Contway Little Pinch Before the Storm Bronze

Lot # 601 (Sale Order: 601 of 1263)      

Title is Little Pinch Before the Storm. 11 7/8" by 11" by 7 3/8". Bruce Contway (1980s) was active/lived in Montana. Bruce Contway is known for Sculptur-western, Native A...moremerican figure. Bruce Contway won second place in the sculpture division of the Santa Fe Indian Market.

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Gerald Balciar Bear Bronze

Gerald Balciar Bear Bronze

Lot # 602 (Sale Order: 602 of 1263)      

Title is Bear. 9 7/8" by 8 1/4" by 5 7/8". Gerald George Balciar (Born 1942) is active/lives in Colorado, Wisconsin. Gerald Balciar is known for Sculpture-life size anima...morel. Gerald Balciar had an early interest in art beginning in grade school. Today, his art is noted for its readily identifiable artistic style, which is grounded in an in-depth knowledge of animals. For reference, he works from his extensive library of wildlife material, which includes photos, magazine clippings, books, and numerous study casts and measurements. He also uses live models as an invaluable aid in his sculptures and receives excellent cooperation from zoologists and wildlife organizations. Balciar is involved in the creative process of bronze making from beginning to end. He works his original sculpture in wax or clay, and then personally makes his own molds and chases his own waxes. Once the bronze is cast at the foundry, he does the welding and metal chasing and then applies the patina and finishing touches to each bronze. While doing an 18' bronze elk in 1982, he devised a point up system that revolutionized the traditional enlargement process. His largest bronze sculpture to date is a 20 foot bronze moose, Centennial, which was installed in Moosehart, Illinois, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Loyal Order of Moose in 1988. His largest marble carving in an 18 foot, 16,000 pound cougar, Canyon Princess, which he sculpted for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. It was installed in June 1995. Balciar is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and a member of the Society of Animal Artists, Allied Artists of America and the Northwest Rendezvous group. He has won several awards, including nine from the National Sculpture Society, and is listed in Who's Who In American Art, Who's Who In The West, and the Dictionary of American Sculptors. He has taught at the Scottsdale Artists' School, the Art Students League of Denver, the Loveland Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hall of Fame's adult art education program. His most prestigious honor is the Prix de West Award, received in 1985 from the National Academy of Western Art at the Hall, for his marble sculpture of two otters, River Companions.In NAWA exhibitions, he won Gold and Silver Medals as well as the Buyers' Choice Award. In 1996, he received the Domenico Facci Memorial Award from Allied Artists of America, and in 1999, received the William E. Weiss Purchase Award at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center Art Show in Cody, Wyoming. Gerald Balciar's work was selected for the 2002 Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage show.

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Carol Grende Charles M. Russell Montana Bronze

Carol Grende Charles M. Russell Montana Bronze

Lot # 603 (Sale Order: 603 of 1263)      

Title is When Stories Came to Life. C.M. Russell 1864-1926. 13 1/2" by 13 1/2" by 12 3/4". Carol A. Grende (1955 - 2009) was active/lived in United States. Carol Grende i...mores known for Sculpure.

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Charles M Russell The Last Laugh Bronze Montana

Charles M Russell The Last Laugh Bronze Montana

Lot # 604 (Sale Order: 604 of 1263)      

Title is The Last Laugh. 8 1/2" by 4 7/8" by 4 1/2". Charles Marion Russell (1864 - 1926) was active/lived in Montana, California, Missouri. Charles Russell is known for ...moreIndian-frontier genre painting, sculpture. Charles M. Russell, the nostalgic, held tight memories of a youthful past when the West belonged to God. There was a sense of loss, as poignant as losing a loved one. The specter of what this loss meant loomed over Russell the rest of his life. He was the quintessential nostalgic who grabbed history and married it to idealized memory and imagination. For example, despite Russell never witnessing a buffalo hunt, it became the basis for his most popular and desired art. Nancy Russell explained, "No man can be a painter without imagination." The Romantic art of the nineteenth century was the cornerstone to build the West reimagined for not only Russell, but also his contemporaries and future artists. No Western American artist fought back harder against racism, sexism, and championed environmentalism more than did Charles M. Russell. He thrived on imagining a time when the land was pristine, women were held in high regard, and people of color were the heroes. Paradoxically, the industrialized world championed just the opposite. To many, his life appeared odd—that cowboy hat, that sash, that unruly hair, that folksy talk. He and his art embraced an identity of an exile from a different place and time, which is even more appealing today. In that way, Russell was a visionary who instilled hope in all who saw his art, and his heart. For those reasons and much more, he is the most beloved of all the Western American artists. The Charles M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma in Norman; the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West (books published by the University of Oklahoma University Press); the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana; the Russell Riders; and the Russell Skull Society are a testament to that fact. The Cowboy Artists of America have been called "The Sons of Charlie Russell" by art historian B. Byron Price for good reason. Russell was a legendary painter, sculptor, and author. Ever humble and self-effacing, as his fame skyrocketed, he never forgot his cowboy friends. The importance of his life and works is that no one has inspired more new generations of artists. Russell lived in the past and his wife Nancy who was his business manager lived for the future. How could a self-trained artist living in remote Montana become the highest paid artist in America? It’s quite a story. Charles Marion Russell was born on March 19, 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri, a bustling gateway to the West of some 200,000 people. Family history and adventure stories such as the Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper lured Russell to the West. On a crisp March day in 1880 Charles M. Russell jumped off the stagecoach in Helena, Montana Territory and took his turn as the latest easterner seeking western adventure. Accompanying him was Willis L.W. "Pike" Miller, a family acquaintance who acted as Russell’s guardian and gave him his first job in Montana on a sheep ranch Miller owned in the Judith Basin. While Miller was kind enough to chaperone Russell, they soon parted ways because Russell wanted nothing to do with sheepherding. For twelve years Russell and his horse Monte were together on the open range mainly nighthawking—somewhat of a lowly cowboy job of watching the horses overnight while the rest of the cowboys slept—until 1893 when Russell began transitioning from cowboy artist to full-time artist. Only a teenager, Russell was younger than most cowboys who were usually in their early twenties but shared with them the qualities of being gregarious, humble, energetic and adventuresome. Charlie saw the cowboy as the last frontiersman—unlike the colorless overburdened farmer and sheep herder. The period from 1906 to 1910 was one of the most productive and enjoyable times of Charlie’s life, which in no small part was due to the summers at Bull Head Lodge and the mentoring by others such as Philip R. Goodwin who visited him there in 1907 and 1910. Glacier National Park has the type of views that keep postcard publishers in business. The mountains fanned the flames of Charlie Russell’s creative genius. He understood that the mountains don’t need us, we need the mountains. Charlie’s favorite place in the world was the lodge, a log structure nestled among the cedar, fir, and tamarack along the shoreline of beautiful Lake McDonald. The years from 1911 to 1915 were a time of artistic achievement by Russell and promotion by Nancy who was as skilled as any field general with her well planned exhibitions in America, Canada, and England. It would be a grueling pace for the duo, but one that would yield a bountiful harvest of financial and critical success. The cowboy

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Frederic Remington The Bronco Buster Bronze

Frederic Remington The Bronco Buster Bronze

Lot # 605 (Sale Order: 605 of 1263)      

Title is The Bronco Buster. 5 7/8" by 4 1/2" by 2 3/4". In his lifetime polymath Frederic Remington was the most successful and famous Western American artist. His immens...moree talents included excelling as an illustrator, author, sculptor, and fine artist. His was a life tragically cut short. Born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, a small berg in bucolic upper state New York, he was much influenced by his father Seth Pierpont Remington, a Republican journalist who founded the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. His father had been a captain in the Civil War, and in 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him United States Collector of the Port of Ogdensburg, New York. In 1876 young Frederic enrolled at Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts where he studied for the next two years. Two years later he enrolled at Yale for one year to study in the School of Fine Arts. His two loves were art and football. Only three months into school, he published his first illustration in the on-campus newspaper Yale Courant. On the gridiron he was a natural, demonstrating great strength and agility. Like Theodore Roosevelt, Remington also enjoyed boxing. A year later he met his future wife Eva Caten from Gloversville, New York. After the death of Remington’s father from tuberculosis on February 18, 1879, Eva rejected his first marriage proposal. Floundering, Remington headed to the American West to find himself—much like Theodore Roosevelt did when his mother and wife died on the same day. That led to a trip to Montana where he completed a number of sketches. Invigorated by his Western experiences, in February 1883 he headed to Kansas and with part of his inheritance bought a 160 acre sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas. That failed adventure lasted about a year, and he then relocated to Kansas City, Missouri where Eva would join him as his wife. Yet he squandered the rest of his inheritance on a saloon there. After more illustrations were sold to Harper’s Weekly, in 1885 the Remingtons moved to New York City, and in 1886 he attended the Art Students League. By then Remington was earning $1,200 a year, twice the income of a school teacher. Other magazines such as St. Nicholas and Outing also published his art. His work certainly impressed a young Theodore Roosevelt who was chronicling his life in Medora—now in North Dakota—for a serial that ran in The Century Magazine. It was very common at the time for authors to serialize their works in magazines before they were published in book form. In the fall of 1887 Remington was commissioned to illustrate the magazine stories which ended up in Roosevelt’s 1888 classic book Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. Early on, a lasting friendship between the two was cemented through these publications. By 1889 he had garnered national notoriety as one of the most accomplished illustrators in the country. He was a national celebrity. In 1889 his monumental canvas A Dash for the Timber was exhibited at the National Academy of Design. The New York Times reported, "The picture at the Autumn exhibition of the Academy of Design before which stands the largest number of people is Frederic Remington’s Dash for the Timber." A Silver medal for Last Lull in the Fight followed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1891 the National Academy of Design elected Remington as an Associate member. Yet he was never admitted as National Academician, despite support from fellow artists Gilbert Gaul, Childe Hassam, and others. His financial success allowed the Remingtons to move into a grand home he named Ednion Algonquin for "a place where I live in New Rochelle, New York. A young Norman Rockwell would someday paint in his studio. Through his travels, Remington embraced social Darwinism survival of the fittest that championed the U.S. military’s domination of the inferior Native Americans. Theodore Roosevelt, George Armstrong Custer, and Remington along with most other Americans—idolized Charles Darwin. As early as 1888 Remington started contributing short stories along with illustrations to magazines. His writings teemed with romantic Western stories chalk full of drama and violence. Initially, they presented the cavalryman as the hero and the Indian as the villain, especially when the Indian had been tainted with the vices of the white man. His West was the "frontier model where the fittest were rugged individuals from northern Europe and white Americans. Even though he was an accomplished author and painter, perhaps his greatest talent was as a sculptor. His bronzes are more famous and collectible than any other Western American artist. And yet his bronze repertoire was completed in just fourteen years. Starting in order of modeling, they are: The Broncho Buster, The Wounded Bunkie, The Wicked Pony, The Scalp, The Norther, The Cheyenne, The Buffalo Signal, Coming Through the Rye, The Mountain Man, The Sergeant, Paleolithic Man, Savage, Polo, The Rattlesnake, Dragoons 1850, The Outlaw, The Horse Thief, The Buf

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Frederic Remington The Bronco Buster Bronze

Frederic Remington The Bronco Buster Bronze

Lot # 606 (Sale Order: 606 of 1263)      

Title is The Bronco Buster. 4 3/4" by 3 1/8" by 2 1/8". In his lifetime polymath Frederic Remington was the most successful and famous Western American artist. His immens...moree talents included excelling as an illustrator, author, sculptor, and fine artist. His was a life tragically cut short. Born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, a small berg in bucolic upper state New York, he was much influenced by his father Seth Pierpont Remington, a Republican journalist who founded the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. His father had been a captain in the Civil War, and in 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him United States Collector of the Port of Ogdensburg, New York. In 1876 young Frederic enrolled at Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts where he studied for the next two years. Two years later he enrolled at Yale for one year to study in the School of Fine Arts. His two loves were art and football. Only three months into school, he published his first illustration in the on-campus newspaper Yale Courant. On the gridiron he was a natural, demonstrating great strength and agility. Like Theodore Roosevelt, Remington also enjoyed boxing. A year later he met his future wife Eva Caten from Gloversville, New York. After the death of Remington’s father from tuberculosis on February 18, 1879, Eva rejected his first marriage proposal. Floundering, Remington headed to the American West to find himself—much like Theodore Roosevelt did when his mother and wife died on the same day. That led to a trip to Montana where he completed a number of sketches. Invigorated by his Western experiences, in February 1883 he headed to Kansas and with part of his inheritance bought a 160 acre sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas. That failed adventure lasted about a year, and he then relocated to Kansas City, Missouri where Eva would join him as his wife. Yet he squandered the rest of his inheritance on a saloon there. After more illustrations were sold to Harper’s Weekly, in 1885 the Remingtons moved to New York City, and in 1886 he attended the Art Students League. By then Remington was earning $1,200 a year, twice the income of a school teacher. Other magazines such as St. Nicholas and Outing also published his art. His work certainly impressed a young Theodore Roosevelt who was chronicling his life in Medora—now in North Dakota—for a serial that ran in The Century Magazine. It was very common at the time for authors to serialize their works in magazines before they were published in book form. In the fall of 1887 Remington was commissioned to illustrate the magazine stories which ended up in Roosevelt’s 1888 classic book Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. Early on, a lasting friendship between the two was cemented through these publications. By 1889 he had garnered national notoriety as one of the most accomplished illustrators in the country. He was a national celebrity. In 1889 his monumental canvas A Dash for the Timber was exhibited at the National Academy of Design. The New York Times reported, "The picture at the Autumn exhibition of the Academy of Design before which stands the largest number of people is Frederic Remington’s Dash for the Timber." A Silver medal for Last Lull in the Fight followed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1891 the National Academy of Design elected Remington as an Associate member. Yet he was never admitted as National Academician, despite support from fellow artists Gilbert Gaul, Childe Hassam, and others. His financial success allowed the Remingtons to move into a grand home he named Ednion Algonquin for "a place where I live in New Rochelle, New York. A young Norman Rockwell would someday paint in his studio. Through his travels, Remington embraced social Darwinism survival of the fittest that championed the U.S. military’s domination of the inferior Native Americans. Theodore Roosevelt, George Armstrong Custer, and Remington along with most other Americans—idolized Charles Darwin. As early as 1888 Remington started contributing short stories along with illustrations to magazines. His writings teemed with romantic Western stories chalk full of drama and violence. Initially, they presented the cavalryman as the hero and the Indian as the villain, especially when the Indian had been tainted with the vices of the white man. His West was the "frontier model where the fittest were rugged individuals from northern Europe and white Americans. Even though he was an accomplished author and painter, perhaps his greatest talent was as a sculptor. His bronzes are more famous and collectible than any other Western American artist. And yet his bronze repertoire was completed in just fourteen years. Starting in order of modeling, they are: The Broncho Buster, The Wounded Bunkie, The Wicked Pony, The Scalp, The Norther, The Cheyenne, The Buffalo Signal, Coming Through the Rye, The Mountain Man, The Sergeant, Paleolithic Man, Savage, Polo, The Rattlesnake, Dragoons 1850, The Outlaw, The Horse Thief, The Buf

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Mary Regat Arctic Fox Bronze

Mary Regat Arctic Fox Bronze

Lot # 607 (Sale Order: 607 of 1263)      

Title is Arctic Fox. 2 7/8" by 2 7/8" by 2 1/2". Mary E. Regat (Born 1943) is active/lives in Alaska, Minnesota. Mary Regat is known for Sculpture, painting, lithography....more Mary Regat (b.1943) She has worked as a full ime artist since 1963, when she moved from Minnesota to Alaska. There she met her husband Jacques Regat with whom she has collabroated since in creating bronze, silver, wood and stone lithographs, oils and acrylic works. She also continues to work on her own, expressing her impressionsit style in bronze, lithography and painting. Together with her husband, she studied art at the University of Alaska, Mayan Toltec art in Central and South America and European art in France.

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Marie Stevenson Canada Goose Clay Sculpture

Marie Stevenson Canada Goose Clay Sculpture

Lot # 608 (Sale Order: 608 of 1263)      

A few areas of damage and repair as shown. 18 7/8" by 9 1/2" by 7 5/8"....more

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Japanese Meiji Bronze Tiger

Japanese Meiji Bronze Tiger

Lot # 609 (Sale Order: 609 of 1263)      

17 1/4" by 7" by 3 1/2"....more

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Gerald Balciar Her Majesty Mountain Lion Bronze

Gerald Balciar Her Majesty Mountain Lion Bronze

Lot # 610 (Sale Order: 610 of 1263)      

Title is Her Majesty. 11 1/2" by 7 1/2" by 3". Gerald George Balciar (Born 1942) is active/lives in Colorado, Wisconsin. Gerald Balciar is known for Sculpture-life size a...morenimal. Gerald Balciar had an early interest in art beginning in grade school. Today, his art is noted for its readily identifiable artistic style, which is grounded in an in-depth knowledge of animals. For reference, he works from his extensive library of wildlife material, which includes photos, magazine clippings, books, and numerous study casts and measurements. He also uses live models as an invaluable aid in his sculptures and receives excellent cooperation from zoologists and wildlife organizations. Balciar is involved in the creative process of bronze making from beginning to end. He works his original sculpture in wax or clay, and then personally makes his own molds and chases his own waxes. Once the bronze is cast at the foundry, he does the welding and metal chasing and then applies the patina and finishing touches to each bronze. While doing an 18' bronze elk in 1982, he devised a point up system that revolutionized the traditional enlargement process. His largest bronze sculpture to date is a 20 foot bronze moose, Centennial, which was installed in Moosehart, Illinois, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Loyal Order of Moose in 1988. His largest marble carving in an 18 foot, 16,000 pound cougar, Canyon Princess, which he sculpted for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. It was installed in June 1995. Balciar is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and a member of the Society of Animal Artists, Allied Artists of America and the Northwest Rendezvous group. He has won several awards, including nine from the National Sculpture Society, and is listed in Who's Who In American Art, Who's Who In The West, and the Dictionary of American Sculptors. He has taught at the Scottsdale Artists' School, the Art Students League of Denver, the Loveland Academy of Fine Arts, and the Hall of Fame's adult art education program. His most prestigious honor is the Prix de West Award, received in 1985 from the National Academy of Western Art at the Hall, for his marble sculpture of two otters, River Companions.In NAWA exhibitions, he won Gold and Silver Medals as well as the Buyers' Choice Award. In 1996, he received the Domenico Facci Memorial Award from Allied Artists of America, and in 1999, received the William E. Weiss Purchase Award at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center Art Show in Cody, Wyoming. Gerald Balciar's work was selected for the 2002 Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage show.

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Tony Hochstetler Bronze Anole Lizard Vase

Tony Hochstetler Bronze Anole Lizard Vase

Lot # 611 (Sale Order: 611 of 1263)      

Title is Anole Vase. 7 7/8" by 4 5/8" by 4 1/2". Tony Hochstetler (Born 1964) is active/lives in Colorado, Indiana. Tony Hochstetler is known for Realistic sculpture-fish...more, reptiles and amphibians. Sculptor Tony Hochstetler is a sculptor in realist style of wide ranging subjects such as frogs, reptiles, birds, fish and amphibians. He says it is important for him to observe living things in their natural environment so that his depictions are accurate. In order to achieve this likeness, he has had a live collection in his studio that has included lizards, frogs, tadpoles and a 10-foot boa constrictor. He also collects fossils and arrowheads. Growing up in rural Indiana, he enjoyed collecting beetles, insects and fossils and arrowheads and was influenced by his grandfather, an industrial arts teacher and amateur rock hound, as well as an uncle who was a full-time potter. After high-school graduation, he worked with his uncle in the pottery shop in Colorado Springs and then went to Loveland, where he took a job with the foundry, Art Castings of Colorado. There he learned about working with bronze, and his first sculpture was a small pair of humpback whales. Sales were strong enough that after three years, he could focus exclusively on his own sculpture. Since then he has won awards with the Society of Animal Artists and has been in exhibitions at the Wichita Art Museum, World Wildlife Museum, and Denver Zoological Gardens. In April, May and early June 2006, Hochstetler's work is part of the Gilcrease Museum's Rendezvous exhibition in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his subjects will include a cicada (Cicada and Maple Leaves) and turtle (Turtle). Of his work he says, 'I think I tend to gravitate toward the more unusual animals. . . I like sculpting things you don't see everyday." (120) The fact that bat images are some of his most popular sculptures indicates that collectors share his preferance. Most of his work is small scale, and he even does functional items such as letter openers, vases and candle holders, but exceptions are a five-foot tall seahorse spouting water and an 18-foot long python draped over a large block. Emulating the Japanese aesthetic and also the era of Art Nouveau moving into the Arts and Crafts Movement, Hochstetler strives for simple, flowing, clean lines, a sense of movement, and strong composition. In his workmanship, he does little or no sketching, usually beginning directly with the wax figure and then stays with one work until it is finished. He does most of his own patina work at the foundry, sometimes spending as much as forty hours per piece. He closely oversees the firing. Tony Hochstetler lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Sandy Scott Corn Fed Pig Hog Bronze

Sandy Scott Corn Fed Pig Hog Bronze

Lot # 612 (Sale Order: 612 of 1263)      

Title is Corn Fed. 8" by 8" by 6 1/4". Sandy Scott (Born 1943) is active/lives in Colorado, Ontario / Canada. Sandy Scott is known for Animal sculpture, sport scene etchi...moreng. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, Sandy Scott became one of the foremost animal sculptors in the Southwest in the late 20th century. Her subjects include all kinds of birds as well as domestic and wild animals. At age two, she moved with her family to Tulsa, Oklahoma where she lived until enrolling in the Kansas City Art Institute from 1961 to 1965. She then worked for Calvin Motion Pictures in animation and worked as a flight attendant and also earned her pilot's license. In 1969, she moved to Hawaii and shortly after to San Francisco, where she worked as a portrait artist and illustrator. She also spent much time in wilderness areas, did off-shore sailing, and traveled in Europe. In 1975, she moved to a rural area near Austin, Texas and began doing etchings, making a name for herself with sporting scenes. In 1978, she did a series of rodeo etchings for the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma and had a one-woman show there of more than 60 etchings. That same year, she bought a cabin at Lake of the Woods, Ontario, and in 1982, she completed her first sculpture, which began a new and highly productive phase of her career. In the next two decades she won numerous awards and was voted into prestigious organizations including the Pen and Brush and Northwest Rendezvous Group. In 1987, she bought a former canning factory on ten acres near Fort Collins, Colorado, and from then divided her time between there and her island home at Lake of the Woods in Ontario, Canada.

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Frederic Remington The Mountain Man Bronze

Frederic Remington The Mountain Man Bronze

Lot # 613 (Sale Order: 613 of 1263)      

9" by 5" by 4 1/4". In his lifetime polymath Frederic Remington was the most successful and famous Western American artist. His immense talents included excelling as an i...morellustrator, author, sculptor, and fine artist. His was a life tragically cut short. Born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, a small berg in bucolic upper state New York, he was much influenced by his father Seth Pierpont Remington, a Republican journalist who founded the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. His father had been a captain in the Civil War, and in 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him United States Collector of the Port of Ogdensburg, New York. In 1876 young Frederic enrolled at Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts where he studied for the next two years. Two years later he enrolled at Yale for one year to study in the School of Fine Arts. His two loves were art and football. Only three months into school, he published his first illustration in the on-campus newspaper Yale Courant. On the gridiron he was a natural, demonstrating great strength and agility. Like Theodore Roosevelt, Remington also enjoyed boxing. A year later he met his future wife Eva Caten from Gloversville, New York. After the death of Remington’s father from tuberculosis on February 18, 1879, Eva rejected his first marriage proposal. Floundering, Remington headed to the American West to find himself—much like Theodore Roosevelt did when his mother and wife died on the same day. That led to a trip to Montana where he completed a number of sketches. Invigorated by his Western experiences, in February 1883 he headed to Kansas and with part of his inheritance bought a 160 acre sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas. That failed adventure lasted about a year, and he then relocated to Kansas City, Missouri where Eva would join him as his wife. Yet he squandered the rest of his inheritance on a saloon there. After more illustrations were sold to Harper’s Weekly, in 1885 the Remingtons moved to New York City, and in 1886 he attended the Art Students League. By then Remington was earning $1,200 a year, twice the income of a school teacher. Other magazines such as St. Nicholas and Outing also published his art. His work certainly impressed a young Theodore Roosevelt who was chronicling his life in Medora—now in North Dakota—for a serial that ran in The Century Magazine. It was very common at the time for authors to serialize their works in magazines before they were published in book form. In the fall of 1887 Remington was commissioned to illustrate the magazine stories which ended up in Roosevelt’s 1888 classic book Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. Early on, a lasting friendship between the two was cemented through these publications. By 1889 he had garnered national notoriety as one of the most accomplished illustrators in the country. He was a national celebrity. In 1889 his monumental canvas A Dash for the Timber was exhibited at the National Academy of Design. The New York Times reported, "The picture at the Autumn exhibition of the Academy of Design before which stands the largest number of people is Frederic Remington’s Dash for the Timber." A Silver medal for Last Lull in the Fight followed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1891 the National Academy of Design elected Remington as an Associate member. Yet he was never admitted as National Academician, despite support from fellow artists Gilbert Gaul, Childe Hassam, and others. His financial success allowed the Remingtons to move into a grand home he named Ednion Algonquin for "a place where I live in New Rochelle, New York. A young Norman Rockwell would someday paint in his studio. Through his travels, Remington embraced social Darwinism survival of the fittest that championed the U.S. military’s domination of the inferior Native Americans. Theodore Roosevelt, George Armstrong Custer, and Remington along with most other Americans—idolized Charles Darwin. As early as 1888 Remington started contributing short stories along with illustrations to magazines. His writings teemed with romantic Western stories chalk full of drama and violence. Initially, they presented the cavalryman as the hero and the Indian as the villain, especially when the Indian had been tainted with the vices of the white man. His West was the "frontier model where the fittest were rugged individuals from northern Europe and white Americans. Even though he was an accomplished author and painter, perhaps his greatest talent was as a sculptor. His bronzes are more famous and collectible than any other Western American artist. And yet his bronze repertoire was completed in just fourteen years. Starting in order of modeling, they are: The Broncho Buster, The Wounded Bunkie, The Wicked Pony, The Scalp, The Norther, The Cheyenne, The Buffalo Signal, Coming Through the Rye, The Mountain Man, The Sergeant, Paleolithic Man, Savage, Polo, The Rattlesnake, Dragoons 1850, The Outlaw, The Horse Thief, The Buffalo Horse, The Cowboy, Trooper of t

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Ray Dan Sleeping Bear Montana Indian Bronze

Ray Dan Sleeping Bear Montana Indian Bronze

Lot # 614 (Sale Order: 614 of 1263)      

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Gregg Morstein Montana Elk Bronze

Gregg Morstein Montana Elk Bronze

Lot # 615 (Sale Order: 615 of 1263)      

Title is Next Years Shed. 12 1/2" by 9" by 6 3/4"....more

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Lyle Schwabauer The Western Republican Bronze

Lyle Schwabauer The Western Republican Bronze

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Made for Montana Governor Judy Martz. 11 7/8" by 10 3/8" by 10". Lyle Schwabauer (20th century) was active/lived in Montana. Lyle Schwabauer is known for Sculptor-wildlif...moree.

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Becky Eiker Finders Keepers Bronze

Becky Eiker Finders Keepers Bronze

Lot # 617 (Sale Order: 617 of 1263)      

Title is Finders Keepers. 7 1/8" by 4 1/2" by 4". Becky Eiker (Born 1942) was active/lived in Montana, North Dakota. Becky Eiker is known for Sculptor-figures of women an...mored children. Born in 1942 in Valley City, North Dakota, Becky Eiker began her career as an art teacher, and then evolved into a potter and then made the natural transition into sculpture. Her interest in the human figure stems from a group of Helena, Montana artists who met and shared model expenses. Because the poses of models are limited and rather static, Becky began to draw from her imagination to get more action and feeling into her figures. Becky's sculpture has received numerous awards in juried competition. Because of her ability to work spontaneously in clay, she also participates in many "Qucik Draw" events. In 1999, Becky presented the City of Helena with her first life-size bronze of a newsboy entitled "Extra! Extra!" as a thank you for the community's support of her career. Becky and her husband reside in Helena, Montana.

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Becky Eiker Crash Landing Bronze

Becky Eiker Crash Landing Bronze

Lot # 618 (Sale Order: 618 of 1263)      

Title is Crash Landing. 4 1/8" by 4" by 4". Becky Eiker (Born 1942) was active/lived in Montana, North Dakota. Becky Eiker is known for Sculptor-figures of women and chil...moredren. Born in 1942 in Valley City, North Dakota, Becky Eiker began her career as an art teacher, and then evolved into a potter and then made the natural transition into sculpture. Her interest in the human figure stems from a group of Helena, Montana artists who met and shared model expenses. Because the poses of models are limited and rather static, Becky began to draw from her imagination to get more action and feeling into her figures. Becky's sculpture has received numerous awards in juried competition. Because of her ability to work spontaneously in clay, she also participates in many "Qucik Draw" events. In 1999, Becky presented the City of Helena with her first life-size bronze of a newsboy entitled "Extra! Extra!" as a thank you for the community's support of her career. Becky and her husband reside in Helena, Montana.

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Becky Eiker Finders Keepers Bronze

Becky Eiker Finders Keepers Bronze

Lot # 619 (Sale Order: 619 of 1263)      

Title is Finders Keepers. 7 1/8" by 4 1/2" by 4". Becky Eiker (Born 1942) was active/lived in Montana, North Dakota. Becky Eiker is known for Sculptor-figures of women an...mored children. Born in 1942 in Valley City, North Dakota, Becky Eiker began her career as an art teacher, and then evolved into a potter and then made the natural transition into sculpture. Her interest in the human figure stems from a group of Helena, Montana artists who met and shared model expenses. Because the poses of models are limited and rather static, Becky began to draw from her imagination to get more action and feeling into her figures. Becky's sculpture has received numerous awards in juried competition. Because of her ability to work spontaneously in clay, she also participates in many "Qucik Draw" events. In 1999, Becky presented the City of Helena with her first life-size bronze of a newsboy entitled "Extra! Extra!" as a thank you for the community's support of her career. Becky and her husband reside in Helena, Montana.

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Becky Eiker Courage Bronze

Becky Eiker Courage Bronze

Lot # 620 (Sale Order: 620 of 1263)      

Title is Courage. 11 1/4" tall, 6" diameter. Becky Eiker (Born 1942) was active/lived in Montana, North Dakota. Becky Eiker is known for Sculptor-figures of women and chi...moreldren. Born in 1942 in Valley City, North Dakota, Becky Eiker began her career as an art teacher, and then evolved into a potter and then made the natural transition into sculpture. Her interest in the human figure stems from a group of Helena, Montana artists who met and shared model expenses. Because the poses of models are limited and rather static, Becky began to draw from her imagination to get more action and feeling into her figures. Becky's sculpture has received numerous awards in juried competition. Because of her ability to work spontaneously in clay, she also participates in many "Qucik Draw" events. In 1999, Becky presented the City of Helena with her first life-size bronze of a newsboy entitled "Extra! Extra!" as a thank you for the community's support of her career. Becky and her husband reside in Helena, Montana.

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Mitch Billis Montana Grizzly Bear Bronze

Mitch Billis Montana Grizzly Bear Bronze

Lot # 621 (Sale Order: 621 of 1263)      

International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 3" tall, 4" diameter. Mitch Billis (Born 1937) is active/lives in Montana. Mitch Billis is known for Sculptor-chi...moreldren, wildlife. Sculptor Mitch Billis moved to Bozeman, Montana in 1987 sculpt and to open a foundry. The father of five children, Billis finds inspiration from youth a popular subject of his sculpture.

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Life Size Bronze Japanese Garden Geese

Life Size Bronze Japanese Garden Geese

Lot # 622 (Sale Order: 622 of 1263)      

Largest is 31" tall....more

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Earle Erik Heikka Country Doctor Bronze Montana

Earle Erik Heikka Country Doctor Bronze Montana

Lot # 623 (Sale Order: 623 of 1263)      

This is the first and only casting of this bronze known. Title is Country Doctor. Several Letters Attesting To its provenance and creation are included. 29 1/2" by 13 1/4...more" by 10 3/4". This bronze was initially cast from an original model of a piece positioned in a diorama titled "The Blessed Event" done by Heikka in approximately 1939. In 1963 Joe De Yong Charles M. Russell's only protege wrote a tribute to Earl E. Heikka, "What has received far less attention than deserved is the wholly untrained, yet artistically admirable quality of modeling that was produced in the all-too-short-lifetime of Earl Heikka of Great Falls." Heikka was born in Belt, Montana on May 3, 1910 to Finnish parents. When he was two years old, the family moved to Great Falls. He was only sixteen years-old when Charles Russell died, so it is uncertain how much time, if any, he observed Russell working in his studio in Great Falls. Like Russell, he learned a great deal about big game by hunting and packing. He also learned from spending time in Rumford’s Taxidermy Shop in Great Falls. Unfortunately, his most productive years were during the Great Depression when prices for all goods and services dropped dramatically. Spending on art for even the wealthy was greatly reduced until after WW II. Heikka worked with mainly water-based air drying clay known as Marblex and used solid wire armature anchored to a wooden base. Many of his models were then beautifully and finely painted before they were ready for sale. Best known for his pack train sculptures, often with a number of riders and horses that were designed for mantles in lodges, Heikka sculpted them as his tribute to Glacier National Park and the Rocky Mountains. His finest was Taking Up the Slack, and others included: Trophy Hunters, Bringing Home the Bacon, Sun River Packers, Hunter’s Return, Pack Train, Pack String, and Successful. He was also a master of predicament subjects such as Pursued. Heikka struggled for sales his entire shortened life. Like so many others during the brutal days of the Depression, he committed suicide on May 18, 1941 in Great Falls and left a young family behind. Only a number of years after he died were his models cast in bronze and his sculpting abilities better appreciated. Today, his sculptures are highly prized and collectible.

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Michael Garman Taking the Rough Off Sculpture

Michael Garman Taking the Rough Off Sculpture

Lot # 624 (Sale Order: 624 of 1263)      

15 7/8" tall. Some damage as shown....more

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Raymond Gibby Buffalo Bronze

Raymond Gibby Buffalo Bronze

Lot # 625 (Sale Order: 625 of 1263)      

Title is Return From The Grand River. 8" by 5" by 2 3/4". Bronze sculptor, Raymond Gibby. grew up in Southern California in the foothills outside of Riverside. As a child...more, he developed a love of the outdoors and wildlife. His father taught him about craftsmanship through doing construction work during the summers and as a wood shop teacher. Gibby’s grandfather was a prolific landscape and wildlife oil painter from Utah, and greatly added to his art understanding. After four years of high school art instruction, Gibby received further art training from professional artist Judy Eriksen. She, as well as his high school art teacher, encouraged him to make art his career. Gibby began his sculpting career shortly after landing a job as a metal worker in a lost wax art foundry in Springville, UT. While there, Gibby was befriended and tutored by many prominent artists. A few became close mentors and friends. He created his first wildlife bronze with a small loan from his father-in-law. Gibby sold his first piece and created two more from that initial sale. Working 12-hour days for six years, for the foundry and on his own work, it wasn’t long before he was selling and growing his works into a portfolio that was being noticed by galleries and notable clients. His works are now seen in private and corporate collections across the nation. In 2009, Gibby’s studio and bronze foundry was destroyed in a fire. Most of the early molds from Gibby’s career were ruined. With tremendous support from family, friends, galleries, and past clientele, Gibby was able to rebuild a new portfolio of bronzes from the ashes. From that experience Gibby learned about the importance of endurance and the value of strong relationships. Many of Gibby’s themes in his current portfolio were influenced by the humbling experience of loss and reliance on others and God to rebuild.

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