Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

Saturday, June 14, 2025  |  9:00 AM Mountain
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Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

Silence of the Prairie - Day 2

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Davis Brothers Auction is proud to present Day 2 of our landmark summer event, Silence of the Prairie-a sweeping exhibition of rare Western fine art, historic photography, and investment-grade artifacts drawn from private collections and long-held estates across America.

Featured Artists:

Olaf Wieghorst, William Penhallow Henderson, Les Thomas, George Phippen, Granville Redmond, William Seltzer Rice, David Mayer, William Standing, Raphael Lillywhite, Maynard Dixon, Maurice Braun, Loren Entz, Clark Hulings, Frederic Remington, Carl Von Hassler, Walt Gonske, John Bye, Hans Kleiber, David Mann, Bill Anton, Don Oelze, Edward Borein, Harold Von Schmidt, Charles Russell, John Nieto, Edgar Alwin Payne, Clyde Aspevig.

Auction Highlights:

Hyatt & Tankersley Alamosa Belt Handcuffs, historic Standing Rock Reservation photographs and archive, Native American Beadwork, Colonel AE Stewart Trophy Room Photos, Edward Curtis orotones and photogravures, African tribal antiques, Acoma Pueblo pottery and so many more hidden treasures.

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Nez Perce Native American Indian Cornhusk Bag

Lot # 451 (Sale Order: 451 of 1017)      

12" by 10 1/4"....more

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Rich Lavalle Tlingit Northwest Coast Frontlet

Lot # 452 (Sale Order: 452 of 1017)      

2 3/4" by 2 1/4" by 1 1/8". Rich Lavalle adopted Tlingit. Second half of the 20th Century....more

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Antique Hopi Pueblo Moccasins

Lot # 453 (Sale Order: 453 of 1017)      

10 1/2" long by 5 1/2" tall by 4 1/2" wide. First quarter of the 20th Century. Provenance: From the estate of Iris Apfel. Apfel August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024 was an Ame...morerican businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel had a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear them. She became a fashion icon, was the focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary Iris, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97.

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Alaskan Inuit Eskimo Carved Whale Tooth

Lot # 454 (Sale Order: 454 of 1017)      

1 5/8" by 1 1/4" by 5/8". Native made prior to 1972. This item cannot be shipped to Oregon, California, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Internationally, or any other state ...morethat prohibits.

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Alaskan Inuit Eskimo Carved Whale Tooth

Lot # 455 (Sale Order: 455 of 1017)      

1 3/8" by 1 1/8" by 3/4". Native made prior to 1972. This item cannot be shipped to Oregon, California, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Internationally, or any other state ...morethat prohibits.

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Alaskan Inuit Eskimo Carved Totem Pole

Lot # 456 (Sale Order: 456 of 1017)      

3 1/8" by 1" by 5/8". Carved walrus material. Native made prior to 1972. This item cannot be shipped to Oregon, California, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Internationally,...more or any other state that prohibits.

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Alaskan Inuit Eskimo Carved Canoe

Lot # 457 (Sale Order: 457 of 1017)      

6" by 1 5/8" by 1". Carved walrus material. Native made prior to 1972. This item cannot be shipped to Oregon, California, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Internationally, o...morer any other state that prohibits.

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Robert Bellarmine Kokuluk Inuit Carved Goose

Lot # 458 (Sale Order: 458 of 1017)      

2 1/2" by 1 7/8" by 1". Native made prior to 1972. This item cannot be shipped to Oregon, California, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Internationally, or any other state th...moreat prohibits.

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Zuni Carved Lapis Lazuli Buffalo Fetish

Lot # 459 (Sale Order: 459 of 1017)      

1" by 1/2" by 1/4"...more

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Emory Boone Zuni Carved Horse Fetish

Lot # 460 (Sale Order: 460 of 1017)      

1" by 1/2" by 1/4"....more

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Zuni Carved Turquoise Mountain Lion Fetish

Lot # 461 (Sale Order: 461 of 1017)      

1 1/4" by 1/2" by 1/4"....more

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Angel Yatsayte Zuni Beaver Fetish

Lot # 462 (Sale Order: 462 of 1017)      

1 1/8" by 1/2" by 3/8"....more

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Angel Yatsayte Zuni Beaver Fetish

Lot # 463 (Sale Order: 463 of 1017)      

1" by 1/2" by 1/2"...more

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Isamel De La Serna Taos Pueblo Painting

Lot # 464 (Sale Order: 464 of 1017)      

Title is Taos Pueblo. 12 3/4" by 9 1/2" unframed. 14 3/4" by 11 5/8" framed. Oil on board. Provenance: From the Estate of Monroe Wingate. Ismael Gonzalez De La Serna (189...more8 - 1968) was active/lived in Spain, France, United States. Ismael De La Serna is known for Cubist and abstract painting-still life, figure, illustration. Ismael Gonzålez de la Serna was born in 1898 in Granada, Spain. He began painting and drawing when he was nine years old. While in school, he became friends with Federico Garcia Lorca, later to become a famous poet. Indeed, it was De La Serna who in 1918 illustrated Garcia Lorca's first book, Impresiones y Paisajes. De la Serna pursued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Granada, where he learned the traditional rules of composition, form, and color. A turning point came in his life in 1917, when he viewed an exhibition of French Impressionists in Madrid. By his own testimony, thereafter he was determined to be a "free" painter, devoted to new forms. In 1915, at age seventeen, he exhibited for the first time in Granada. A few years later, upon his second exhibition, the art critic Manuel Robles wrote: "There is no doubt that de la Serna knows color and his spirit penetrates the essence and line of his work." Nonetheless, Robles hoped that de la Serna would abandon the spirit of Modernism." The Spanish artistic community, unlike that in neighboring France, was resistant to the innovations of Post-impressionism. Granada in particular imposed intolerable limits on such an "extraordinary soul" as De La Serna's, as it was described by Lorca. De La Serna, impassioned in his pursuit of his vocation and life's work, and yearning for a stimulating cultural environment, moved to Paris in 1921, where his compatriot, Picasso, had been an international figure in the cubist movement for more than a decade. He was introduced to Picasso by the writer, critic, and art collector known as Tériade. According to Tériade, Picasso, upon seeing de la Serna's work, exclaimed: "At last, a true painter! As grand as Juan Gris!" The year 1927 was one of remarkable success for De La Serna. Tériade devoted an article on him in issues of the art review, "Cahiers d'Art", which simultaneously covered the works of luminaries such as Renoir and Picasso. Tériade wrote that De La Serna was the painter "we had all been waiting for." That is, his poetic sensibility lent in certain unity to his work and deftly combined a vigor of expression with a delicacy of form. Paul Guillaume then organized an exhibition of fifty of De La Serna's works to wide acclaim. An individual exhibition at the Gallery Flechtheim in Berlin was equally successful, all of the works found buyers. The gallery even signed De La Serna to a contract, which remained in effect until 1933, when Hitler's rise to power forced its revocation. The Nazi rise to power definitely had unfortunate consequences. It is thought that those works of De La Serna's still residing in Germany, including many of his most vulnerable paintings, were destroyed by the Nazi regime. Luckily, De La Serna had been warmly received throughout Europe. In 1928, he signed contracts to exhibit his works at the Galerie Zak in Paris and at the Galerie Le Centaure in Brussels. Christian Zervos wrote enthusiastically in Cahiers d'Art that De La Serna's incredible skill at drawing allowed him to make abstractions of reality. While a number of his works certainly echo the influence of Picasso and Braque, such influence was mirrored within a Cubism of his own making. In the instinctive equilibrium of his work, the blend of exuberance and sober expression, the use of color, and the strength of the lines, De La Serna reminded Zervos of Zurburan, El Greco, and Cézanne. Indeed, to Zervos, Cubism brought out either a deep expressiveness due to the distortion of the central object or figure represented, or resulted in an abstract painting composed of forms independent of the exterior reality. In any case, representation of both possibilities was typical of de la Serna's work. The artist easily balanced and reconciled the extremes of both representation and abstraction. Although a traditional Cubist subject, Nature Mort de la Guitare is a strong example of de la Serna's Cubist technique of the late 1920's. In 1930, the Galerie Zak devoted an entire exhibition to de la Serna;s works. The National Gallery of Berlin,and the museum of Mannheim both acquired paintings of his. In 1932, he returned triumphantly to Spain, where he toured with successful exhibitions throughout his homeland. In 1936, he took part in an exhibition at the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris. During this time, he rarely participated in public showings of his work. After the Second World War, he released works he had painted secretly which honored the Resistance and decried the atrocities of war. De la Serna continued to work throughout the 1940's and 1950's. His style evolved into pure combinations of color and form. His paintings cont

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Kim Mackey Cortando Flores Painting

Lot # 465 (Sale Order: 465 of 1017)      

Title is Cortando Flores or Cutting Flowers. 18" by 24" unframed, 30 1/2" by 24 1/2" framed. Oil on Canvas. Kim Mackey (Born 1953) is active/lives in Colorado. Kim Mackey...more is known for Western-cowboy genre and landscape painting. Kim Mackey grew up in Pueblo, Colorado. He attended public schools and, through his interest and ability in art, won a scholarship to attend the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver. Following art school, Mackey worked for several years as an illustrator, completing assignments for such clients as True West magazine, Western Horseman and Capitol Records. Special studies at Colorado State University qualified him as one of only a few certified police artists in the state, but recognition from his peers and collectors led him away from commercial work and illustration into full time fine-art painting. Mackey also coaches students; he is a popular teacher, conducting workshops and classes throughout the region. He has been a faculty instructor at the Art Students League of Denver, and has taught at the Colorado Institute of Art. His credentials list numerous awards, including the prestigious Winsor Newton Award from the Oil Painters of America. He has exhibited at the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Oil Painters of America in Chicago, Illinois and San Antonio, Texas, the Colorado Governor's Invitational Show in Loveland, Colorado, and the Coors Western Art Show in Denver, Colorado. His paintings hang in collections, including that of the singer/songwriter Neil Diamond. Mackey's work is also included in the King Collection at the Sangre de Cristo Fine Art Center in Pueblo, Colorado. Mackey is a signature member of the Oil Painters of America, and has been featured in Art Revue magazine, The Artist's Magazine, Southwest Art magazine, and Western Horseman magazine, as well as Cowboys and Indians magazine. The Denver Post has called him "a master of [his] genre," and Southwest Art has acknowledged him as a traditional cowboy artist in the finest sense of the word.

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Wayne Wolfe La Tierra Arroyo New Mexico Painting

Lot # 466 (Sale Order: 466 of 1017)      

Title is Arroyo Patterns. 8 1/2" by 16 1/2" unframed. 23 1/4" by 15 3/8" framed. Oil on board. Wayne E. Wolfe (Born 1944 or 1945) is active/lives in Colorado, New Mexico,...more Kansas, Missouri. Wayne Wolfe is known for Mountain landscape and western genre painting. American Painter Wayne Wolfe was born in Kansas City, and graduated from the University of Kansas with a journalism degree. His exposure to art began in childhood with his father, Byron Wolfe, who was an early member of the Cowboy Artists of America. After attending college, working at a radio station and an advertising agency, and serving in the Army, Wolfe decided to fulfill his need for independence and left the business world to paint. He studied with Robert Lougheed in Santa Fe and apprenticed with him for six years. Lougheed insisted that he learn the language of nature by painting landscapes on location in order to see the best value, color and edges. While in Santa Fe, Wayne also studied with Tom Lovell to learn about line, mass and anatomy. Wayne Wolfe now lives in Colorado, and primarily paints the Rocky Mountain West. Painting trips have also taken him to Canada, New England, Europe and the British Isles. His work, which is displayed at the country's most elite shows, has won numerous awards including the very prestigious Prix de West award. His work has been displayed in many national publications and books.

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Olaf Wieghorst Indian Portrait Pencil Drawing

Lot # 467 (Sale Order: 467 of 1017)      

Title is Two Indian Heads. 4 1/2" by 6/4" unframed. 11 5/8" by 9 3/8" framed. Pencil on paper. Provenance: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection,...more Florida Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) was active/lived in California / Denmark. Olaf Wieghorst is known for Western-Indian-genre, horses. Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons"). He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel. In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion. He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man.

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Ethel M Cooke Old Soledad Santa Fe Painting

Lot # 468 (Sale Order: 468 of 1017)      

Title is Old Soledad, Evening, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 4 1/2" by 6" unframed. 15 7/8" by 14 3/8" framed. Oil on board. Provenance: Forrest Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mex...moreico. Keny Galleries, Columbus, Ohio. Private Collection, Florida Ethel M. Cooke (1887 - 1976) was active/lived in Ohio. Ethel Cooke is known for Impressionist landscape painting. EDUCATION Chase School, New York, With William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri 1914 Kittery Point, Maine (summer class) 1919 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (summer class at Chester Springs, Pennsylvania) TEACHING 1946-1962 Wittenberg University 1969 Crabill Art Center RELATED EXPERIENCE Draftsman, Steel Products, Springfield, Ohio.

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William E Johnson Riders Near Spanish Peaks

Lot # 469 (Sale Order: 469 of 1017)      

Title is Riders Near Spanish Peaks. 20" by 10" unframed. 12" by 22" framed. Oil on canvas. Provenance: Robert L. Parsons Fine Art, Taos, New Mexico, The Gregory Warren Ne...morelson Collection, Taos, New Mexico William E. (Bill) Johnson (1925 - 2003) was active/lived in New York, Colorado. William Johnson is known for Old West genre, illustrator, sculptor. William E. Johnson was a painter true to his roots. Depicting a historical view of the West in which he grew up became the basis of his life's work as an illustrator of the Old West. His early years were spent on ranches around Gunnison, Colorado, a scenic area which epitomized the romantic notions of the Old West. It was in Gunnison that Johnson was to have the good fortune of meeting and studying under the legendary Harvey Dunn, one of the legendary Brandywine illustrators. During the summer of 1947, Dunn was teaching at the Western State College in Gunnison. This experience led Johnson to spend two years with Arthur Mitchell, a former student of Dunn's who was then heading up the art department at Trinidad State College in Trinidad Colorado. His early work with two of America's great illustrators set a tone for the life work of Bill Johnson. He furthered his art studies by attending the Art Students League in 1949 and 1950 under the tutelage of Frank Reilly, a noted teacher of illustration art. This intensive period of study for Johnson culminated with graduation from the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles in 1954. William Johnson spent the next ten years as a commercial illustrator in New York City where the markets for the rapidly shrinking illustration field were centered. While working in New York , Johnson had the good fortune of meeting the "Saturday Evening Post" illustrator Harold von Schmidt, who became a close friend and mentor to Johnson for the remainder of his life. Von Schmidt's style of depicting the Old West was to become a guiding influence in the western paintings of Johnson. In 1965, Bill Johnson left New York to go back to his home state of Colorado. Arthur Mitchell was retiring and Bill Johnson was to take his place as head of the art department at Trinidad State. Following in the footsteps of his former instructors was only natural for Bill Johnson. All of his major influences , Harvey Dunn, Arthur Mitchell, Frank Reilly, and Harold von Schmidt had, in addition to being great illustrators, been dedicated teachers. However, teaching in the remote western town of Trinidad, Colorado, also had the effect of relegating Johnson to artistic obscurity. Described as somewhat cantankerous, Johnson preferred to sell his own work, which in a small Colorado town must have been quite limited. Now rediscovered, work from the estate of William E. Johnson stands on it's own as a tribute to the west in which he lived.

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Edward Borein Remuda Watercolor Painting

Lot # 470 (Sale Order: 470 of 1017)      

Title is Remuda. 7 1/4" by 9 3/4" unframed. 12" by 14 1/2" framed. Watercolor on paper. Provenance: Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Private Collection, New ...moreMexico. Edward (John Edward) Borein (1872 - 1945) was active/lived in California. Edward Borein is known for Western genre and horse painting, illustration. He was raised in San Leandro, a western cow town, in a family where his father was a county politician. Edward had many childhood memories of herded cattle and their cowboys, which he began sketching at the age of five. He was educated in the Oakland, California schools, and at the age of 17 began working on a ranch near Oakland and then drifted and sketched as a working cowboy throughout the Southwest, Mexico, and Guatemala. It was said that he practiced his art on anything he could find from bunkhouse walls to scraps of paper. At age 19, he enrolled at the San Francisco Art School, his only formal art training, and there he met Jimmy Swinnerton and Maynard Dixon who encouraged him in his art career. The first person to purchase his work was Charles Lummis, editor of The Land and Sunshine magazine in California, and the two became life-long friends. Borein and Lucille Maxwell were married in the Lummis home. Borein, a typical westerner in dress and manner, also became close friends with Charles Russell, actor Will Rogers, and President Theodore Roosevelt. Borein often traveled north to visit Russell in Great Falls, Montana and to travel among Indian tribes. In 1899, Borein visited Arizona while returning from Mexico. By 1902, he was a successful illustrator in San Francisco for the San Francisco Call, and in 1907 to enhance his illustration skills, went to New York to learn etching techniques. There he enrolled in the Art Students League and was a student of Child Hassam. In the theatre district, he opened a studio that became a gathering place for 'lonesome' westerners such as Charles Russell, Will Rogers, Olaf Seltzer and Oscar Borg. But Borein did not feel at home in New York, so he moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1921. This was a final move. He and his wife built a Hopi-style home, and he taught at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts until his death, and also turned increasingly from oil to watercolor painting. "On occasion Borein would decorate place cards for dinners with small watercolor sketches of cowboys, vaqueros, Indians and Bucking horses". (Santa Fe Auction) From his studio, which again attracted many of his friends, he depicted Indians, cowboys, and California ranch life and was financially successful.

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Francis Donald Spring in Chacos Oil Painting

Lot # 471 (Sale Order: 471 of 1017)      

Title is Spring in Chacos New Mexico. 18" by 24" unframed. 31" by 37" framed. Oil on canvas. Francis Donald (Born 1947) is active/lives in New Mexico. Francis Donald is k...morenown for Landscape, interior, still life.

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Eugene Thurston Spanish Peaks Colorado Painting

Lot # 472 (Sale Order: 472 of 1017)      

Title is Spanish Peaks Colorado. 16" by 20" unframed. 22 1/2" by 26" framed. Oil on Board. Eugene Bonfanti Thurston (1896 - 1993) was active/lived in Texas, Tennessee. Eu...moregene Thurston is known for Landscape and adobe structure painting, cartoons, commercial art. A prominent early Texas artist and muralist who lived in El Paso, Eugene Thurston was also a teacher and lecturer. For his landscapes, much of his subject matter came from the area surrounding his home. He was a prolific painter, continuing into his 80s, and worked in oil, watercolor, and ink and depicted desert and mountain scenes and also Mexican villages. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in El Paso where he graduated from El Paso High School. Then he studied commercial art through a correspondence course from the Federal School of Art in Minneapolis. Between 1940 and 1966, he taught art courses at El Paso Technical Institute and El Paso High School. He also continued his own study with Harry B Wagoner and Dey de Ribcowsky at Texas Western College, and with Vera Wise.

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Les Thomas Elk Oil on Board Painting

Lot # 473 (Sale Order: 473 of 1017)      

Title is Animal Painting #019-1770 Elk. 12" by 12". Oil on Board. Provenance: Diehl Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming Private Collection, Wyoming Les Thomas (Born 1962) is active...more/lives in Canada. Les Thomas is known for Painting. My intention with each of my animal paintings is to forge some kind of amicable relationship between the patterns and abstract paint application, and a particular animal image. In this sense, the image is not merely a pretext for a painting. It actually provides the impetus for how the entire surface is to be treated. Les Thomas, who was born in British Columbia in 1962, has long recognized painting as a language in its own right, and its diversity, in terms of poetic and conceptual messages, exhibited by each individual picture. Les' education is indicative of his dedication to his chosen profession as an artist. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University College in London, England. After returning to Canada, he attended the University of Calgary, gaining his Master of Fine Arts. Thomas sifts through a wide variety of visual sources for the imagery in his work. The influence of his view of painting as a very noble activity is combined with his acknowledgement that it can be inventive and enjoyable (for both the artist and the viewer). The other major influence is culture, in its broadest terms, including all aspects of our everyday life. Les Thomas' dynamic wax & oil animal paintings allow him to play with the relationship between culture and nature. The special encaustic wax finish that he applies, Les explains, "may very well pertain to memory, and the manner in which we hold visual experiences within the capacities for recollection. Think of the last time you encountered a bear on the roadside or craned your neck to watch a mountain goat or sheep on a steep and rocky slope." "My intention with each of my animal paintings is to forge some kind of amicable relationship between the patterns and abstract paint application, and a particular animal image. In this sense, the image is not merely a pretext for a painting. It actually provides the impetus for how the entire surface is to be treated." Les Thomas has received many awards for his work, been featured in several publications, and has his paintings in public and private collections in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Germany.

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James Swinnerton Taos Sunset Oil Painting

Lot # 474 (Sale Order: 474 of 1017)      

Title is Sunset. 6 1/2" by 11 1/2" unframed, 9 1/2" by 14 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, Florida J...moreames Guilford (Jimmy) Swinnerton (1875 - 1974) was active/lived in California. James Swinnerton is known for Desert landscape and Indian figure painting, cartoons. A pioneer comic artist, James Swinnerton is most often credited in histories of the funnies for things he never did. He never drew anything titled Little Bears and Tigers, and the feature he did draw about bears was not the first newspaper strip. In fact, it wasn't a comic strip at all. A talented artist, Swinnerton did, however, contribute significantly to the development of comics in the more than 60 years he worked as a cartoonist. His most successful strip was Little Jimmy, and he's the one who introduced his friend George Herriman to the Arizona desert that became the permanent locale for Krazy Kat. Swinnerton, too, put the desert country to good use in his own work. James Guilford Swinnerton was born in Eureka, California, where his father was a judge, a publisher of a weekly paper, and a staunch Republican. Swinnerton studied at the California Art School in San Francisco and went to work for the Examiner in 1892, the first of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. In 1887 Hearst had taken over the faltering little Examiner daily, and most of the tricks that became Hearst trademarks were first tried out it it. As a boy, Hearst had become interested in German humor magazines, and while at Harvard he had worked on the Lampoon. For his new paper he wanted drawings and funny pictures, which was where Swinnerton came in. At first Swinnerton was only a part-time comic artist. It was not until he got back to New York several years later that he was allowed to do comics full time. Because there was still no practical way to use photographs in a newspaper in 1892, all pictorial reporting was done by sketch artists. These artists, Swinnerton included, covered parades, crimes, trials, sports, etc. Swinnerton even had to go out to sketch high school field days. Once, to cover a hotel fire down the coast in Monterey, Hearst hired a train and shipped a whole carload of reporters and artists to cover the event. The Little Bears, one of the earliest comic art features in an American newspaper, started out as spot drawings to decorate the weather reports, inspired by the bear on the California state flag. His little bears multiplied and began to show up throughout the paper, to be used in promotion stunts. In the mid 1890s, Swinnerton also started turning out large quantities of drawings of his small kids, whom he liked to call tykes. Often the bears and the tykes would get together in parades that stretched across the bottom of a page. They were sometimes referred to editorially as Little Bears and Tykes, but they never appeared in an actual comic strip. Impressed by the public response to his work, Swinnerton asked for a raise of $2.50 a week, but the editors didn't feel he was worth the extra money. He quit and headed for New York City, where Hearst had bought the New York Journal in 1895. Hearst was involved in circulation wars with Pulitzer's New York World, and most of the many other local dailies, and one of the results of the battles with Pulitzer was the Sunday comic section. Cartoonists were brought back and forth, and for a time The Yellow Kid ran in both the Journal and the World. Finally, Hearst produced a color comics section. Swinnerton's little bears had always been favorites of Hearst. For the Journal, however, Hearst suggested they be transformed into tigers. Gradually the tigers developed -- from a pantomime strip into a Sunday page complete with dialogue balloons. This version, titled Mr. Jack from 1903 on, dealt with a domesticated tiger that had an office job, a wife, and quite a few lady friends. During this early trial period, when color comics were expensive and there was some doubt that they would ever catch on enough to turn a profit, Swinnerton continued to do sports cartoons on the side. In 1904, he turned again to tykes and introduced Little Jimmy, a very small boy who shared his first name. Originally titled just Jimmy, the feature began life as a Sunday page. With some lapses, and a hiatus or two, Swinnerton drew the feature until 1958. A daily was added in 1920, at which time the name was changed to Little Jimmy. Swinnerton drew in a simple, uncluttered style, using very little shading and favoring long shots to close-ups. When comics began to pay off, the Journal decided to let Swinnerton draw them to the exclusion of everything else, which meant the paper needed a new sports cartoonist. Asked to recommend a replacement, Swinnerton said, "Theres a fellow named Dorgan out in San Francisco, calls himself Tad. But if you're going to get him, you'd better send for his friend, Hype Igoe." The paper sent for the pair, and both became successful sports cartoonists

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Michael Stack Taos Graveyard Oil Painting

Lot # 475 (Sale Order: 475 of 1017)      

Title is Taos Summer Days. 12" by 16" unframed. 17 1/2" by 21 1/2" framed. Oil on Canvas Michael Stack (Born 1947) is active/lives in Arizona, New Mexico. Michael Stack i...mores known for Landscape, skies, nocturne, figure. Michael Stack (NY 1947- ) was born in New York and raised in California. He is self-taught and has always been interested in art, primarily landscape painting. For the past twenty years, he has lived and painted in New Mexico and Arizona, and has sought to capture on canvas the skies and the openness of the southwestern landscape. The focus of his works is the fleeting moment of shadow, light and color that awakens an emotional response in the viewer. His paintings are included in collections in the United States, Europe and Japan. Stack's work has appeared on the cover as the featured artist of "Southwest Art", August 1992 and "Art of the West", August-September 1993. He has also been featured in "Southwest Art" in 1987, "U.S. Art" in and 1989 as well as various other national and local publications. In the fall of 1997 Stack was inducted as a Master Artist for the Artist of America show sponsored by the Denver Rotary. In 1996 we was named the Tucson Artist of the Year, the twenty-fourth to be honored.

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