Portrait of the Plains - Day 3

Portrait of the Plains - Day 3

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Portrait of the Plains - Day 3

Portrait of the Plains - Day 3

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Featured Artists:
John Nieto, Winold Reiss, Lorenzo Ghiglieri, Charles M Russell, Bill Anton, Harold Harrington Betts, Andrew Wyeth, Duke Beardsley, Henry Francois Farny, Maynard Dixon, William Standing, Jay Contway, Edward Curtis, Tim Cherry, George Phippen, William Hawkins, LeRoy Greene, William Steve Seltzer, Bill Ohrmann, Stoney Lamar, Lane Timothy, Elisha Harteis, Robert Moore, Bob Scriver, Francis Donald, William Hawkins, Allan Stover, and many more.

Highlights Include:
Playboy Number 1 Marilyn Monroe CGC Graded 8.0, Eero Saarinen for Knoll Tulip Table, Afra and Tobia Scarpa 3 Piece Sofa Set, 5.86ct Ceylon Sapphire Ring, Santee Sioux Quilled Vest from the Forrest Fenn Collection, Hamilton 14k Gold Watch, Fine Jewelry and Gemstones from the RP Ellis Collection, Golden Designs Infrared Sauna, Georg Jensen Labradorite Brooch, Native American Indian Jewelry Beadwork Art and Artifacts, Amber Jewelry, Haida Northwest Coast Raven Mask, Loetz Argus Vase, Vico Magistretti Caori Coffee Table, Edward Curtis Orotone Photo Collection, Stickley...
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Jeremy Hatch Montana Porcelain Lego Sculpture

Lot # 601 (Sale Order: 601 of 1057)      

9 1/2" diameter, 1 1/2" deep. Jeremy Hatch received an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vanco...moreuver, Canada. He has been active in solo exhibitions, collaborative projects and group shows at a diverse range of venues including: The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, and the Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. His work has been the subject of reviews and articles in Ceramics Monthly, Azure Magazine among others. Hatch has been the recipient of residencies at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, The Archie Bray Foundation, The European Ceramic Work Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Art/Industry Program at Kohler Company, and Medalta. He is currently an associate professor at Montana State University. Hatch is the founder of Ricochet Studio Inc. Ricochet Studio is dedicated to producing well designed, well crafted objects that span a broad spectrum of purposes: from functional to decorative, architectural to domestic, experimental to traditional. The studio focuses on creating limited edition ceramic pieces in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. Visit Ricochet Studio for current works.

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Jeremy Hatch Montana Porcelain Lego Sculpture

Lot # 602 (Sale Order: 602 of 1057)      

7 5/8" by 6 1/8" by 1 1/4" Jeremy Hatch received an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouve...morer, Canada. He has been active in solo exhibitions, collaborative projects and group shows at a diverse range of venues including: The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, and the Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. His work has been the subject of reviews and articles in Ceramics Monthly, Azure Magazine among others. Hatch has been the recipient of residencies at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, The Archie Bray Foundation, The European Ceramic Work Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Art/Industry Program at Kohler Company, and Medalta. He is currently an associate professor at Montana State University. Hatch is the founder of Ricochet Studio Inc. Ricochet Studio is dedicated to producing well designed, well crafted objects that span a broad spectrum of purposes: from functional to decorative, architectural to domestic, experimental to traditional. The studio focuses on creating limited edition ceramic pieces in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. Visit Ricochet Studio for current works.

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Jeremy Hatch Montana Porcelain Lego Sculpture

Lot # 603 (Sale Order: 603 of 1057)      

13" by 11 3/4" by 1 1/2". Jeremy Hatch received an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouver...more, Canada. He has been active in solo exhibitions, collaborative projects and group shows at a diverse range of venues including: The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, and the Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. His work has been the subject of reviews and articles in Ceramics Monthly, Azure Magazine among others. Hatch has been the recipient of residencies at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, The Archie Bray Foundation, The European Ceramic Work Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Art/Industry Program at Kohler Company, and Medalta. He is currently an associate professor at Montana State University. Hatch is the founder of Ricochet Studio Inc. Ricochet Studio is dedicated to producing well designed, well crafted objects that span a broad spectrum of purposes: from functional to decorative, architectural to domestic, experimental to traditional. The studio focuses on creating limited edition ceramic pieces in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. Visit Ricochet Studio for current works.

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Jeremy Hatch Montana Porcelain Lego Sculpture

Lot # 604 (Sale Order: 604 of 1057)      

13 1/2" by 12 5/8" by 1 1/2". Jeremy Hatch received an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vanco...moreuver, Canada. He has been active in solo exhibitions, collaborative projects and group shows at a diverse range of venues including: The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, and the Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. His work has been the subject of reviews and articles in Ceramics Monthly, Azure Magazine among others. Hatch has been the recipient of residencies at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, The Archie Bray Foundation, The European Ceramic Work Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Art/Industry Program at Kohler Company, and Medalta. He is currently an associate professor at Montana State University. Hatch is the founder of Ricochet Studio Inc. Ricochet Studio is dedicated to producing well designed, well crafted objects that span a broad spectrum of purposes: from functional to decorative, architectural to domestic, experimental to traditional. The studio focuses on creating limited edition ceramic pieces in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. Visit Ricochet Studio for current works.

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Jeremy Hatch Montana Porcelain Lego Sculpture

Lot # 605 (Sale Order: 605 of 1057)      

22 1/2" diameter, 3" tall. Jeremy Hatch received an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouve...morer, Canada. He has been active in solo exhibitions, collaborative projects and group shows at a diverse range of venues including: The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, The Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea, The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana, and the Duolun Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China. His work has been the subject of reviews and articles in Ceramics Monthly, Azure Magazine among others. Hatch has been the recipient of residencies at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, The Archie Bray Foundation, The European Ceramic Work Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Art/Industry Program at Kohler Company, and Medalta. He is currently an associate professor at Montana State University. Hatch is the founder of Ricochet Studio Inc. Ricochet Studio is dedicated to producing well designed, well crafted objects that span a broad spectrum of purposes: from functional to decorative, architectural to domestic, experimental to traditional. The studio focuses on creating limited edition ceramic pieces in collaboration with artists from various disciplines. Visit Ricochet Studio for current works.

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Carl Kauba Indian in Canoe Bronze

Lot # 606 (Sale Order: 606 of 1057)      

Title is Indian and Canoe. 10" by 7" by 7" Carl Kauba (1865 - 1922) was active/lived in Austria, United States. Carl Kauba is known for Sculpture-western figure, Native A...moremerican. This Austrian sculptor was born in Vienna in 1865. His teachers were Karl Waschmann (1848-1905), known for his ivory sculptures and portrait plaquettes of contemporary celebrities, and Stefan Schwartz (1851-1924), who exhibited in Paris, including the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where he won a gold medal. Kauba's intricate bronzes, imported to the United States between 1895 and 1912, were cast at the Roman Bronze Works. Kauba was part of the nineteenth-century tradition of polychrome bronze sculpture. There were several types of patinas on a single statue: he could render the color of buckskin, variously tinted shirts, blankets, feathers, as well as beaded moccasins. Reportedly, Kauba came to America around 1886. Inspired by the Western tales of German author Karl May, he traveled to the West and made sketches and models. Critics, however, pointed out inaccuracies of costume and other details. For instance, the guns that his "mid-nineteenth-century" figures use are models produced after 1898. Apparently he did all of his works back in Vienna. Besides the variety of color, Kauba's bronzes show a great range of textures and his style is highly naturalistic. The sculptor loved ornament, some of which he rendered with coiled wire for reins, rope and feathers in headdresses. He successfully rendered figures in motion and often executed compositions with more than one figure. Berman (1974) illustrates non-Western subjects by Kaula, such as the pendants Where? and There (ca. 1910), a seated Scottish couple, impressive in the expressions and the details on patterned fabrics of both sitters. Another genre piece is Buster Brown, ca. 1910, and Nude on Vase shows Kauba's versatility even further. The smooth skin contrasts with the stylistic, plant-like vase.

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Charles M Russell Bronze Plaque

Lot # 607 (Sale Order: 607 of 1057)      

12" by 9". Charles Marion Russell (1864 - 1926) was active/lived in Montana, California, Missouri. Charles Russell is known for Indian-frontier genre painting, sculpture....more 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 artist was "The West That Had Passed" in s

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Charles M Russell Bronze Plaque

Lot # 608 (Sale Order: 608 of 1057)      

12" by 9". Charles Marion Russell (1864 - 1926) was active/lived in Montana, California, Missouri. Charles Russell is known for Indian-frontier genre painting, sculpture....more 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 artist was "The West That Had Passed" in s

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Joseph Illig Northwest Coast Indian Panel Crabcat

Lot # 609 (Sale Order: 609 of 1057)      

Haida Crabcat Studio Resin panel. Artist also known as Joseph Ilig. 12" by 17 1/2"....more

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Paolo Soleri Arcosanti Cast Bronze Bell

Lot # 610 (Sale Order: 610 of 1057)      

21 3/8" long....more

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Susan H. Satterfield Bronze Horse

Lot # 611 (Sale Order: 611 of 1057)      

4 5/8" by 3 3/8" by 2 1/4". Equestrian Forge....more

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Ferdinand Pautrot Pointing Hunting Dog Bronze

Lot # 612 (Sale Order: 612 of 1057)      

Tail is cracked. 8 1/4" by 7 3/8" by 3 3/8". Ferdinand Pautrot (1832 - 1874) was active/lived in France. Ferdinand Pautrot is known for Hunting dogs, horses and bird scul...morepture. Ferdinand Pautrot (1832 - 1874) was born in Poitiers, France. Very little is known about this competent French sculptor. His first recorded exhibit was at the Salon in Paris in 1861 with three entries. He continued to exhibit at the Salon until 1870. His works consist of mostly hunting dogs, birds, and a few horses and wild animals. Pautrot's works are highly detailed and accurate in the portrayal of his subjects.

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Wilhelm Otto Peters Tyr Bull Bronze

Lot # 613 (Sale Order: 613 of 1057)      

Title is Tyr. Leg is cracked. 6 1/2" by 5" by 3 5/8". Wilhelm Otto Peters (1851 - 1935) was active/lived in Norway, Sweden. Wilhelm Peters is known for Drawing, illustrat...moreion, fine art history painting, teaching. Wilhelm Otto Peters was a Norwegian painter who participated in the Modern Breakthrough in Nordic painting. He associated closely with the Skagen Painters in the early 1880s and was one of the first to paint the fishermen in Brøndums store. Born in Oslo, Peters studied drawing from 1867 to 1870 under David Arnesen and J.F. Eckersberg. Working as an illustrator, he came to the attention of Karl IV who made arrangements for him to study at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm from 1871 to 1873. He then went to Rome where he studied under Antonio Piccinni from 1873 to 1876, completing his studies in 1880 after periods in Munich and Paris. Educated as a Historicist painter inspired by Alma Tadema, he turned to folklore, exhibiting in Denmark. While in Paris in the late 1879s, he was attracted by French Naturalism. When he arrived in Skagen in 1881, he had gained international experience from his travels to Germany, Rome and Paris and became a contributor to the Modern Breakthrough in Nordic painting. After meeting Michael and Anna Ancher during his first visit to Skagen, he returned in 1882 and 1883 when he associated with Christian Krogh, P.S. Krøyer and Eilif Peterssen. He was one of the first of the Skagen Painters to paint the fishermen in the inn, a theme which was later adopted by Michael Ancher and Krøyer. Peters was successful in having one of his paintings exhibited at Oslo's Høstutstillingen (autumn exhibition) in 1882. In 1885, he became a head teacher at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, a post he retained until 1923. In addition to his paintings and etchings, he created stained-glass windows including those in St. Olav's Cathedral, Oslo.

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Bronc Rider Cowboy Bronze

Lot # 614 (Sale Order: 614 of 1057)      

Unsigned. 11 1/2" by 5 1/4" by 2 7/8"...more

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Antoine Louis Barye Dog with Rat Sculpture

Lot # 615 (Sale Order: 615 of 1057)      

Spelter. 8 3/4" by 4 1/2" by 4 1/2". Antoine-Louis Barye (1796 - 1875) was active/lived in France. Antoine Louis Barye is known for Animalier sculpture. The son of a gold...moresmith, Parisian born Antoine-Louis Bayre was a sculptor of animal subjects and acclaimed, not only for his apparent skill, but as the founder of what became known as the French Animaliers School. Among his patrons were representatives of the state government and royalty including the Duke of Orleans and the Dukes of Luynes, Montpensier and Nemours. Well compensated financially, he was able to buy the best of materials and hire the country's most skilled foundry craftsmen. The foundry he hired was owned by Ferdinand Barbedienne, and casts from this period were stamped with the letters, FB. However, he did not make a lot of money from his work because he was such a perfectionist that often he would not sell his work because he thought it was not 'quite right'. In 1848, he declared bankruptcy, and his molds and plaster casts were sold along with the copyrights. Bayre's specialty was aroused, angry seeming wild game such as lions and tigers and elephants, but he also did equestrian groups and mythology figures. In order to do realistic depictions of animal anatomy, he spent much time at the Jardin de Plantes in Paris. His early training was as an apprentice to a metal engraver, but being drafted in the army in 1812, ended that education. In 1832, he had established his own studio, and unique at that time was his method of cold stamping his bronze casts, so that each one had a special number. He had his first entry, The Milo of Croton, in the Paris Salon in 1819, winning a second prize. In 1831, a work regarded as a masterpiece, Tiger Devouring a Gavial, was in the Salon, and purchased for the Luxembourg Gardens, is now in the Louvre. However, many of his subsequent Salon submissions were rejected and so angered him that between 1836 and 1851, he refused to submit entries. In 1851, he again exhibited at the Salon with Jaguar Devouring A Hare, and this work, like the 1831 entry, was placed in the Luxembourg Gardens and eventually in the Louvre. In spite of problems with the Salon, Bayre received many accolades for his work, and the period of 1837 to 1848 was considered the most productive time of his career. However, in 1848, when he lost control of his work and it was reproduced by others including Martin and Barbedienne, the sculptures, according to some art professionals, are not as skillfully executed---in other words, devoid of the perfection he strove so hard to achieve. In 1848, after his bankruptcy, Barye became Director of Casts and Models in the Louvre, until 1850, when he was replaced by Emmanuel Fremiet. It was a very difficult time for him. However, within a few years, he began receiving accolades for the quality and uniqueness of his work, and people began appreciating the powerful images of his sculpture---especially the wildlife in their natural surroundings. In 1854, he was appointed Master of Zoological Drawing in the Musee d'Histore Naturelle, and held this position until his death in 1875. There one of his pupils was Auguste Rodin, who would become a revolutionary modernist sculptor of figure and portrait subjects. By 1857, Bayre was recovered financially and resumed controlled of his casts and models. Although he continued with his former subject matter, the many state commissions he received took most of his creative energy. He also received many official honors such as Officer in the Legion d'Honneur, first presidency of the Central Union of Beaux Arts, Grand Medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and membership in the Institute of France. His work as a sculptor ended in 1869 when he was 73, and after his death, six years later, Ferdinand Barbedienne purchased most of his plasters and molds. Barbedienne, who was Bayre's original foundry owner and who had accommodated the perfection demanded by the sculptor, continued casting bronzes. These posthumous works reportedly have the same meticulous attention to detailing that Bayre would have demanded.

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Pierre Jules Mene Mare & Foal Bronze

Lot # 616 (Sale Order: 616 of 1057)      

Title is Mare & Foal. 6 1/4" by 3 1/2" by 3 3/8". Pierre Jules (P.J.) Mene (1810 - 1879) was active/lived in France. Pierre Jules Mene is known for Realistic animal sculp...moreture, dogs, horses, wildlife. Pierre Jules Mene, (P. J. Mene), was born in Paris in March of 1810 and died in Paris at number 9 Rue de L'Entrepot on May 21, 1879. The son of a metal turner, he received his earliest teaching on sculpture and foundry work from his father, and he opened his own foundry in the 1850s, creating lost-wax castings of his sculptures in bronze. Although mostly self-taught, Mene was encouraged by sculptor Rene Compaire, and was also influenced by two painters: Edwin Landseer of England with his expressive sentimentality, as well as Carle Vernet of France, in capturing spirit, grace and compositional beauty in sculptural form. Much of Mene's early studies were made at the "Jardin des Plantes" in Paris, where he developed great talent for animal sculpture. He first exhibited the bronze statuette entitled Dog and Fox at the Paris Salon in 1838, and from that time exhibited regularly until his death. He received four awards from the Paris Salon: Second Class in 1848, First Class in 1852 and 1861, and a Third Class award in 1855. Mene did not sculpt statues, but rather bronze statuettes generally of domestic and farm animals at rest, (horses, dogs, cows, bulls, sheep and goats). He modeled over 150 subjects, and received the "Cross of the Legion of Honor" in 1861. He exhibited in England at the Great Expositions of 1855, 1867 and 1878, where he was praised as the "Landseer" of sculpture. P. J. Mene was one of the most prolific and popular sculptors of the Animalier School, as well as one of it's earliest pioneers. His sculptures were widely collected by the public. His only sculpture acquired by the State of France during his lifetime was the bronze Mounted Huntsman and His Hounds. Charming and charismatic, Mene was accepted socially within the various French artistic communities. Mene's earliest works, (such as Tiger and Alligator), reflected Antoine-Louis Barye's influence, but in contrast with the romantic style of Barye, Mene's style evolved in a contrasting way. He excelled in realistic portrayals of animals, sculpting each in their natural habitat, capturing fleeting movements and delicate details. Generally, his sculptures were portraits with a hint of human personality. Mene was praised for his "perfection in modeling the figures of animals, and for the truth and beauty of his representations." He worked in the Juste Milieu, blending romantic and naturalist elements while retaining a degree of traditionalism. Mene's casts were of the highest quality and patinas. The last cast of an addition was edited as sharply as the first, and he was meticulous in the after work of his bronze casts, chiseling extremely fine details. His bronzes were signed in block letters "P. J. Mene" with no foundry marks. He taught his son-in-law, Auguste Cain, who continued Mene's foundries from 1879 to 1892. Subsequently, Mene's models were sold to the Susse Freres Foundry which cast well into the 20th century. Many recasts have been produced.

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Pierre Jules Mene Two Horses Bronze

Lot # 617 (Sale Order: 617 of 1057)      

Title is Two Horses. 11 3/4" by 7" by 6 1/2". Pierre Jules (P.J.) Mene (1810 - 1879) was active/lived in France. Pierre Jules Mene is known for Realistic animal sculpture...more, dogs, horses, wildlife. Pierre Jules Mene, (P. J. Mene), was born in Paris in March of 1810 and died in Paris at number 9 Rue de L'Entrepot on May 21, 1879. The son of a metal turner, he received his earliest teaching on sculpture and foundry work from his father, and he opened his own foundry in the 1850s, creating lost-wax castings of his sculptures in bronze. Although mostly self-taught, Mene was encouraged by sculptor Rene Compaire, and was also influenced by two painters: Edwin Landseer of England with his expressive sentimentality, as well as Carle Vernet of France, in capturing spirit, grace and compositional beauty in sculptural form. Much of Mene's early studies were made at the "Jardin des Plantes" in Paris, where he developed great talent for animal sculpture. He first exhibited the bronze statuette entitled Dog and Fox at the Paris Salon in 1838, and from that time exhibited regularly until his death. He received four awards from the Paris Salon: Second Class in 1848, First Class in 1852 and 1861, and a Third Class award in 1855. Mene did not sculpt statues, but rather bronze statuettes generally of domestic and farm animals at rest, (horses, dogs, cows, bulls, sheep and goats). He modeled over 150 subjects, and received the "Cross of the Legion of Honor" in 1861. He exhibited in England at the Great Expositions of 1855, 1867 and 1878, where he was praised as the "Landseer" of sculpture. P. J. Mene was one of the most prolific and popular sculptors of the Animalier School, as well as one of it's earliest pioneers. His sculptures were widely collected by the public. His only sculpture acquired by the State of France during his lifetime was the bronze Mounted Huntsman and His Hounds. Charming and charismatic, Mene was accepted socially within the various French artistic communities. Mene's earliest works, (such as Tiger and Alligator), reflected Antoine-Louis Barye's influence, but in contrast with the romantic style of Barye, Mene's style evolved in a contrasting way. He excelled in realistic portrayals of animals, sculpting each in their natural habitat, capturing fleeting movements and delicate details. Generally, his sculptures were portraits with a hint of human personality. Mene was praised for his "perfection in modeling the figures of animals, and for the truth and beauty of his representations." He worked in the Juste Milieu, blending romantic and naturalist elements while retaining a degree of traditionalism. Mene's casts were of the highest quality and patinas. The last cast of an addition was edited as sharply as the first, and he was meticulous in the after work of his bronze casts, chiseling extremely fine details. His bronzes were signed in block letters "P. J. Mene" with no foundry marks. He taught his son-in-law, Auguste Cain, who continued Mene's foundries from 1879 to 1892. Subsequently, Mene's models were sold to the Susse Freres Foundry which cast well into the 20th century. Many recasts have been produced.

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Marilyn Newmark Hacking Home Horse Bronze

Lot # 618 (Sale Order: 618 of 1057)      

Title is Hacking Home. 12 7/8" by 11 7/8" by 4 1/2". 5/20. Marilyn Meiselman Newmark (1928 - 2013) was active/lived in New York. Marilyn Newmark is known for Sculpture-ho...morerses, equestrian. Born in New York City, Marilyn Newmark was a sculptor of horses, including race horses and equestrian pieces. She is known for her ability to capture detail. "Every muscle and tendon is exactly delineated..." (Sternberg 141). In 1971, she won the Anna Hyatt Huntington Award, and in 1972, her equestrian sculpture, "Hacking Home", was selected as the Madison Square Garden trophy. Newmark knew horses first hand because she was raised in the horse country of Long Island and continued to keep a stable there. During her childhood, she did a lot of sketching of horses, and began sculpting them during her teen age years. She studied at Adelphi College and Alfred University. However, Paul Brown, renowned horse illustrator and author, was her major influence, and she worked with him until his death in 1958. She used many of his sketches for her finished pieces. Newmark first worked in ceramic, doing her own casting, glazing, and firing, but in 1969, she switched to bronze. She received commissions to sculpt many famous race horses including Man o' War, Majestic Light, Triple Crown, and Affirmed. She has an extensive list of awards and exhibitions and was an elected Associate Member of the National Academy of Design.

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Paul Herzel Cold Painted Spelter Sculpture

Lot # 619 (Sale Order: 619 of 1057)      

Title is Turning Home. 16 3/4" by 11 1/8" by 6 3/4"...more

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Antique Sukhothai Bronze Buddha Head

Lot # 620 (Sale Order: 620 of 1057)      

Appears to have been broken off a statue as shown. 10 /2" by 8 1/8" by 6" on stand....more

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Lorenzo Ghiglieri Need For Buffalo Bronze

Lot # 621 (Sale Order: 621 of 1057)      

Title is Need For Buffalo. 42 1/2" by 17 1/2" by 20". 18/36. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri (1931 - 2020) was active/lived in Oregon, California. Lorenzo Ghiglieri is known for Rea...morelist style horse, frontier figure and wild animal sculpture. Contemporary Oregon painter and sculptor Lorenzo Ghiglieri was born in Los Angeles, California, on November 25, 1931. Ghiglieri's paintings are typically in oil, often of heroic size, perhaps in proportion to his own six-foot five height, and his precise sculptures in bronze, again of large stature, are sometimes over 30 feet tall. Influenced by his Italian sculptor father, Angelo, and his French pianist and vocalist mother, Frieda, Lorenzoi Ghiglieri grew up in a world of ethnic blends that was to enrich his art. Both of his grandfathers were artists, one a sculptor and the other a musician-conductor. He began his life living on the fringe of a ghetto, an urban melting pot, and to this he attributes his interest in connecting with other people and their ways of life, including Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest. As a child, he carved in soap, modeled clay, and often watched his father make the stone chips fly. That he would become an artist seemed fated, and Ghiglieri responded to the artistic family environment in which he grew up. At age seventeen, he won an award from the Los Angeles Art Directors Club providing a scholarship to the Los Angeles Trade Tech Junior College. With the training he received there, he solidified his move into the visual arts. The Korean War and naval service interrupted his art education, but, after serving a year on a destroyer, he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as staff illustrator and naval painter. During this tour came a commission for a marine painting of the cruiser, U.S.S. Baltimore, which was officially presented by the United States to Great Britain on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Ghiglieri was just twenty-two years of age at the time he completed the piece. Following his discharge from the Navy, Lorenzo joined the staff of Stephen Biondi Studios. From the beginning of his professional career, Ghiglieri has made little distinction between commercial and fine art. To his way of thinking, what he was producing was art. If it was to be used for some other purpose, such as selling a product, then it could be called commercial art. Should it be displayed for the enjoyment of its qualities as art, then properly it could be called fine art. Lorenzo has won numerous national awards in design and illustration, including an invitation to paint scenes for an international biblical epic, "Earth, Theater of the Universe". This painting consists of a 100-foot rendition of the earth's history according to biblical tradition, It incorporates close to 400 figures, most of which were posed and painted from life, and the result has been shown in gallery and screen presentations. In 1992, Lorenzo sculpted the American Bald Eagle in bronze, silver and gold, and the piece is part of the permanent collection at the White House. More recently, he created a 33-foot tall bronze eagle, Skookum Hyak (Power Surge), that dominates the entrance to a resort in Oregon. Louisiana Pacific, a large lumber producing company in Oregon, is an admirer of their state's sculptor. In their offices in Portland, there are over a half dozen of his bronze works, two of which are of eagles. At the City Hall of Kansas City there is a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son, Tad, sculpted by Ghiglieri, a work donated to the city in 1986 by Orville W. Anderson. A well traveled man, Ghiglieri has experienced many environments, including lonely life as a frontiersman. He has explored deserts and mountains, hunted in the Yukon, lived among Eskimo Natives, and fished many western rivers. He has a deep interest in the preservation of wildlife, and the protection of America's vanishing western heritage, as is evident in his bronze works that often depict eagles, mountain sheep, dolphin, and bear. Since 1956, Ghiglieri has lived in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, drawn there by the city's beautiful setting and its proximity to large amounts of wilderness where he was able to realize a long-held dream of raising horses. He has hunted, photographed and sketched the animals in their native habitats. He has often ridden his horse through land that once belonged to the Nez Pierce Indians, and has become very aware of the historical import of the land of the Indians and its people, and has created a series of six bronzes that celebrate them. The first four are Leader of Leaders, White Bird's Coup, First Arrow of Looking Glass and Chief Joseph. Ghiglieri's works on his sculptures and paintings in one of his two studios in the Portland area. It was not until 1974 that Ghiglieri turned to bronze sculpture. After years of working in paint, he decided to employ a medium that involved the third d

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Charles M Russell Montana Pig Bronze

Lot # 622 (Sale Order: 622 of 1057)      

Signed CM Russell. 4 @ 1950 H.E. Britzman. Rodriguez Art Bronze. 5 3/8" by 3 1/4" by 2 3/4". First casting numbered 4 of 6 total. Less than 19 known in all editions and f...moreormats according to Rick Stewart. Charles Marion Russell (1864 - 1926) was active/lived in Montana, California, Missouri. Charles Russell is known for Indian-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, Ca

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Frederic Remington The Bronco Buster Bronze

Lot # 623 (Sale Order: 623 of 1057)      

Title is The Bronco Buster. 4 1/2" by 3 1/2" by 2 1/4". 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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Charles M Russell Montana Will Rogers Bronze

Lot # 624 (Sale Order: 624 of 1057)      

Title is Will Rogers. 10 5/8" by 10" by 4 1/2". Charles Marion Russell (1864 - 1926) was active/lived in Montana, California, Missouri. Charles Russell is known for India...moren-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 artis

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Frederic Remington Mountain Man Bronze

Lot # 625 (Sale Order: 625 of 1057)      

Title is Mountain Man. 10" by 6 1/2" by 5" Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861 - 1909) was active/lived in New York, Kansas, Connecticut. Frederic Remington is known for W...moreestern painting and sculpture, illustration. In his lifetime polymath Frederic Remington was the most successful and famous Western American artist. His immense 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 Sign

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