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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Eric Michaels Fez Morocco Orange Market Pastel

Lot # 476 (Sale Order: 476 of 1017)      

Title is The Orange Market, Fez Morocco. 11" by 15" unframed. 17 3/4" by 21 3/4" framed. Pastel on Paper. Eric Michaels (Born 1949) is active/lives in Colorado, New Mexic...moreo, Illinois. Eric Michaels is known for Frontier genre, village, water and landscape painting. Living in Trinidad, Colorado, Eric Michaels is a plein-air landscape painter of Southwestern and European subjects using watercolors, pastels and primarily oils. He was raised in the Midwest and earned a degree in fine art and spent several years as a social worker with the Department of Welfare in Rockford, Illinois. He had both music and art talent, and played guitar with performing groups. He is now a full-time painter, and his wife, Maxine is his business manager, shipper, and framer. The couple lived in Santa Fe before settling in Trinidad.

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Joseph Willis Aspens of Taos Oil Painting

Lot # 477 (Sale Order: 477 of 1017)      

Title is The Aspens of Taos. 16" by 20" unframed. 19 1/2" by 23 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: Private Collection, Colorado Joseph Roy (J.R.) Willis (1876 - 1960)...more was active/lived in New Mexico. Joseph Willis is known for Tree landscape and Indian subject painting, photography. he following is from Scott L Peeler, Jr., Valrico, Florida. He is the maternal grandson of the artist through his mother, Emily Willis Peeler. The artist, known as J.R., was born in Goloid Community Screven County, Georgia, near Sylvania, on the 24th of November, 1876. He died December 30, 1960 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He married Tempie Easterling of Reidsville, Georgia in 1899. They had a son and two daughters and were divorced. In 1916, he married Violet Powell of Ontario, Canada. Willis is best known for his Indian photographs and paintings and Southwestern landscapes. During the winters, he spent time in the Miami, Florida area where most of his brothers, sister, and mother lived, and from there, he made frequent trips to Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic where he did landscape painting. He also made frequent painting trips to Mexico and at least one trip to Guatemala, Central America. Willis traveled throughout the Southeastern part of the United States where he took advantage of the beauty of the region to paint many portraits and landscapes. Near the end of his life, he was faced with failing eyesight, but continued to paint until the time of his death. His career began as a political cartoonist during the Spanish American War. He worked at the "Atlanta Constitution" newspaper before going to New York to study art about 1908. Then he went to California, where he was a pioneer in the cartoon industry. He also spent 10 years as a "chalk talk" artist in vaudeville. In 1917, he was booked at a theater in Gallup, New Mexico when the owner of the theater died of influenza. Willis bought the theater and established a photography studio in Gallup. In 1931, he moved to Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in 1938, he built his home and studio at the corner of Rio Grande and Alhambra Drive South West in the country club district of Albuquerque. The property is now (2001) a 'bed and breakfast' named "Casa de Suenos." Willis was known as the "Aspen King" because of his many paintings of the beautiful aspen trees which turn a golden color in the fall of the year. He was also known for his portraits of American Indians, principally of New Mexico and Arizona. His work was realistic in style. His style is very similar to Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. He studied with Robert Henri in New York. Photography was another medium for which he was well known. Many of the photographs were used to make view- master reels and post cards, which have become quite collectible today. In addition to the Albuquerque Museum, his work is found in a Japanese museum in Imabari, Shikoku and a museum in Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia, South America. Many pieces of his work are in private collections in this country and Germany.

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Clark Hulings Chimayo New Mexico Oil Painting

Lot # 478 (Sale Order: 478 of 1017)      

Title is Mountains of Chimayo. 8" by 10" unframed. 14" by 16" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: Private Collection, New Mexico Clark Hulings (1922 - 2011) was active/live...mored in New York, New Mexico, Florida / Italy, Egypt, Spain, Romania. Clark Hulings is known for Town-landscape, genre and still life painting. An artist whose realistic paintings reflect his world-wide travels, Clark Hulings spent much time as a child in Spain and Louisiana and from these experiences developed a great interest in rustic settings and primitive lifestyles. Many of his works reflect old trees and old buildings, and throughout his career, he has frequently returned to Spain and Louisiana for subject matter. But he has made his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico where, with the help of Hispanic craftsman, he has built an adobe home. He was raised in a suburb of New York, trained at the Art Students League, and was inspired at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Realist and Impressionist painters. He became an illustrator, but the pull of landscape subjects led him to full time fine-art painting. He has been a dominant presence in contemporary Western art since the 1970s, although most of his work is non-western, and he never paints cowboys. He took the first-ever Prix de West at the National Academy of Western Art in 1973 and had numerous one-man shows at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and the Museum of New Mexico. For many years after this recognition for western art, he quit exhibiting, selling only to a select group of collectors, but in November, 1999, he will have a major exhibition of oil paintings at the Nedra Matteucci Galleries in Santa Fe.

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William Steve Seltzer Montana Indian Painting

Lot # 479 (Sale Order: 479 of 1017)      

Title is The Warrior. 9" by 12" unframed, 16" by 20" framed. Gouache on Board. Provenance: Private Collection, New York W. Steve Seltzer (Born 1945) is active/lives in Ca...morelifornia, Montana. W Seltzer is known for Genre often nostalgic and landscape painting. Painter Steve Seltzer grew up with the influence of his grandfather's, O.C. Seltzer's, western artwork, and has always held an interest in art. This influence is apparent even in Steve Seltzer's earliest pieces, which often feature western subject matter. It was not until the mid-70's, after graduating from Montana State University and working in the architectural and real estate fields, that he decided to concentrate on his passion for painting. With this decision to become a full time painter, Seltzer and his wife moved to Southern California where he shared his enthusiasm and his studio with brother-in-law and fellow artist Dan McCaw. In California, he studied with well-known Russian artist Sergei Bongart whose impressionistic influences as well as McCaw's and fellow artist Don Putman, inspired him to experiment with subjects outside the Western theme, such as reflected light on the sea and sand. However, Seltzer is quick to explain: "Subject matter comes second to the atmosphere, the feeling, the flavor I want to suggest." It is this belief that allows him to continue painting with such variety. Whether the subject is Western or impressionistic, his goal is to suggest rather than describe, to allow the audience to create their own interpretations. In 1996, Steve Seltzer won the Juror's Award and the Artist's Award for the best painting and group of paintings at the Northwest Rendevous show in Park City, Utah. The following year, he won the Peoples Choice Award at the Chapparal Gallery's annual summer show. He is one of only two artists to be accepted into all 35 C.M. Russell Auctions, and he won the Auction's 1998 Scriver award, the 2000 Artist's Choice award, and the 2003 Best of Show award.

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Paul Strisik High Road to Taos Pueblo Oil Painting

Lot # 480 (Sale Order: 480 of 1017)      

Title is High Road to Taos. 12" by 16" unframed. 20" by 24" framed. Oil on Canvas Paul Strisik (1918 - 1998) was active/lived in Massachusetts. Paul Strisik is known for ...moreLandscape, marine and still-life painting. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Paul Strisik became a resident of Rockport, Massachusetts, where he did landscape painting that brought him national recognition. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and with Frank Vincent DuMond. In 1953, he moved to Rockport, where he was active in the Art Association and other local civic organizations. He was a member of the National Academy of Western Art, the American Watercolor Society, and the Oil Painters of America. During his long career, he won 185 awards including 16 gold medals. He and his wife, Nancy, also maintained a home in Santa Fe for 12 years, and in 1996, he was honored as Artist of the Year by the Santa Fe Rotary Club. He was widely respected for his willingness to share his talents with young artists, and taught numerous workshops including at the Scottsdale Artists' School. He wrote several books, his last one being Capturing the Light in Oils. He died July 22, 1998 at his home in Rockport.

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Harold von Schmidt Cowboy Oil Painting

Lot # 481 (Sale Order: 481 of 1017)      

Title is Herding in Bad Weather. 18" by 24" unframed. 22 1/2" by 28 1/2" framed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Private Collection, Minnesota. Joan Brace, daughter of the Art...moreist. Harold von Schmidt (1893 - 1982) was active/lived in New York, California, Connecticut. Harold von Schmidt is known for Western painting, illustration. For more than half a century, the illustrations and paintings of Harold Von Schmidt were familiar to the American public. His work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Cosmopolitan, American and other magazines for 20 years, beginning in 1925. He also illustrated Willa Cather's novel, Death Comes to the Archbishop, and was commissioned in 1960 to design the Pony Express commemorative stamp for the United States postal service. Born in 1893 in Alameda, California, Von Schmidt was orphaned at five. He was raised by his grandfather and an aunt who encouraged his interest in art. As a young man, he spent his summers working as a lumberjack, cowpuncher and construction worker. After two years' study with F.H. Meyers at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Von Schmidt did his first cover design in 1913 for Sunset magazine. While attending the San Francisco Art Institute* from 1915 to 1918, he became art director at the Foster and Klein advertising agency. He also made paintings for the Navy in World War I. Von Schmidt was a member of the United States rugby team in the 1920 Olympics. That year, he and artists Maynard Dixon, Roi Partridge, Judson Starr and Fred Ludekens set up their own agency. He came East in 1924 to study at the Grand Central School of Art* in New York City with Harvey Dunn, a former student of Howard Pyle. During World War II, Von Schmidt was an artist-correspondent for King Features Syndicate and the air force. He continued to produce non-commercial work, as well as illustrations. He did twelve paintings of the Gold Rush for the California governor's offices, and 5 Civil War paintings for the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Harold Von Schmidt was a founder of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut. He died in 1982.

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Clyde Aspevig Montana Aspens Oil Painting

Lot # 482 (Sale Order: 482 of 1017)      

Title is Montana Aspens. 16" by 20" unframed, 20" by 24" framed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Scottsdale Art Auction, 04/02/2005, Lot 149. Condition Report: Currently missi...moreng a piece of paint the size of a dime, and another small triangular shaped piece to the right of that. Conservation recommended to prevent deterioration. Clyde Aspevig (Born 1951) is active/lives in Montana, Colorado. Clyde Aspevig is known for Mountain landscape and coastal view painting. Inspired by the sagebrush and wide open horizons of Wyoming and Montana, Clyde Aspevig is a landscape painter who does sketches on location and finishes the work in his studio. Although he was trained to be an art educator, he has had little formal training as a painter, but has studied the work of artists he much admires including John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, and Winslow Homer. His obvious talent has won him prestigious recognition including the Frederic Remington Award* and the Robert M. Lougheed Memorial Award*, both from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group, and is the first Montana artist since Charlie Russell to exhibit at Grand Central Art Galleries* in New York City. Aspevig was born in Rudyard, Montana, and raised on a small working wheat farm near the Canadian border. He became mindful of people's reliance upon the land, although he left the farm to attend Eastern Montana College in Billings. However, he dropped out to spend the winter in the Bear Paw Mountains and then returned for a degree in art education. He taught for one year in Sandy Oregon High School and then went back to Montana with his wife, artist Carol Guzman, to paint full time. From 1988, the couple has lived in Loveland, Colorado where he remodeled an historic church for his studio. Aspevig travels widely to paint, choosing landscape subjects in the Southwest and the West including along the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, and in foreign places such as England, Italy and the Caribbean.

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Olaf Carl Seltzer Stag Charcoal Drawing

Lot # 483 (Sale Order: 483 of 1017)      

Title is Stag. 16 3/4" by 11 7/8" unframed. 26 7/8" by 20 7/8" framed. Charcoal on paper. Provenance: Private Collection, Virginia. Olaf Carl Seltzer (1877 - 1957) was ac...moretive/lived in Montana / Denmark. Olaf Seltzer is known for Frontier and Indian genre paitning, illustration. If there ever was an artist who inspired a fellow artist, it was Charles M. Russell who had a profound influence on Olaf Carl Seltzer (1877-1957). The cowboy artist helped bring out the best in his younger, Great Falls, Montana friend. While Russell was gregarious and enjoyed a crowd, Seltzer was quiet and somewhat withdrawn. They both saw the same truth, their love for Montana and the "West That Has Passed." Born on August 25, 1877 in Copenhagen, Denmark to German immigrant parents, Olaf was abandoned in infancy by his father. He found solace in drawing, which led to acceptance at the Tekniske Selskabe Institute, known to develop artisans. Yet the young artist dreamed of the American West of Buffalo Bill Cody. He and his mother Julie sailed to America on June 21, 1892 to join his sister Laura and her husband in Giant Springs, a short jaunt from Great Falls, Montana. His first job was a ranch hand for a local outfit, but soon he realized the wages were better working for the Great Northern Railway. In October 1893 he was employed as an apprentice machinist for the railway in Great Falls. A steady income allowed him to marry Mabel L. Cleland, and they eventually had two sons, Carl and Walter. Other jobs such as locomotive repairman found him riding trains throughout the northern Great Plains, sketching in his spare time. His big break came from Russell patron Dr. Phillip Cole who by 1925 was one of the most important collectors of Western American art in the country. Cole was born in 1883 in Illinois but raised in Montana. Cole had met Seltzer on one of his trips to Montana, and for a year starting in 1926 Seltzer moved to New York to work on art commissions for him. Many more would follow. In 1928 he purchased a home on East Central Avenue and completed for Cole a series of watercolors that would be called the "Western Characters. In 1933 Cole had yet another project for Olaf. He was to paint the history of Montana in a series of oils, measuring no greater than six inches. He and Cole worked together on the commentary for each piece. The last of the oils was delivered to Cole in the autumn of 1935. The next year Cole photocopied the miniatures and assembled them into an impressive suede-covered volume he titled Montana in Miniature. At least four copies were produced. But Cole wouldn’t enjoy his collection long. On June 29, 1941 he died of a stroke at age fifty-seven. Several years later, Oklahoma oilman Thomas Gilcrease purchased for $400,000 much of Cole’s collection that included 560 paintings, sixty-two bronzes, and historical material. Half of the paintings were executed by Seltzer. They eventually found a home in 1949 when the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art opened in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Seltzer died in a Great Falls convalescent home on December 16, 1957. He once said, "If there is anything of lasting value in my art, it will survive. If not, it will perish. He would be happy to know that him and his art—2,500 oil and watercolor paintings—were not forgotten. In 1960 the Montana Historical Society had a major retrospective of Seltzer’s paintings. Six years later art dealer Dr. Van Kirke Nelson in Kalispell, Montana and Cato K. Butler from Helena published Montana in Miniature, after finding one of Cole’s copies by the same name. In June 1979 the Gilcrease Museum had the largest one-man exhibit of Seltzer’s to date. Many exhibitions followed, including one at the C.M. Russell Museum in 2019. Besides his art, Olaf would be proud of his grandson, Steve Seltzer, who lives in Great Falls and is a noted and prolific artist.

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Les Thomas Moose Oil on Board Painting

Lot # 484 (Sale Order: 484 of 1017)      

Title is Animal Painting #022-1984 Moose. 16" by 20". Oil on Board. Provenance: Diehl Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming Private Collection, Wyoming Les Thomas (Born 1962) is acti...moreve/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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Les Thomas Moose Oil on Board Painting

Lot # 485 (Sale Order: 485 of 1017)      

Title is Animal Painting #022-1985 Moose. 16" by 20". Oil on Board. Provenance: Diehl Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming Private Collection, Wyoming Les Thomas (Born 1962) is acti...moreve/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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Sheldon Parsons Baldy Santa Fe New Mexico Painting

Lot # 486 (Sale Order: 486 of 1017)      

Title is Santa Fe Baldy March. 9" by 12" unframed, 16 1/2" by 19 1/2" framed. Provenance: Nedra Matteucci Gallery. Sheldon Parsons (1866 - 1943) was active/lived in New Y...moreork, New Mexico. Sheldon Parsons is known for Landscape, Indian pueblos and figure painting. In 1918 becoming the first director of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, Sheldon Parsons was a painter of local residents, plaza scenes, and landscapes. He applied Impressionist techniques to convey the New Mexico landscape, and his work became popular. He was born in Rochester, New York, and studied at the National Academy of Design with William Merritt Chase, Edgar Ward and Will Low. He was married to noted photographer Caroline Reed Parsons, and from 1895 to 1912, was a much sought after New York portrait painter, whose subjects included prominent persons such as President McKinley and Susan B Anthony. He also won much recognition for his autumn scenes of the countryside of Westchester County. In 1913, to start a new life after his wife's death and to find a better climate because of his tuberculosis, he gave up his successful career in New York to move to Santa Fe where he became one of the earliest resident artists. The more he painted in that environment, the looser his style became, and his impressionist landscape paintings were popular. They were exhibited at the Palace of the Governors and the new Museum of New Mexico, where a number of his paintings are in the collection.

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Edward Borein Cowboy Watercolor Paintings

Lot # 487 (Sale Order: 487 of 1017)      

Titles are California Reinsman, and Little Bucking Horse. Each is 3 1/2" by 3 1/2" unframed. 14" by 19" framed. Exceptionally published and executed miniature works of ar...moret. Watercolor on paper. Provenance: The Katherine H. Haley Collection Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, New Mexico Exhibited: Ventura County Museum of History & Art, Ventura, California, The West Remembered: The Art of Edward Borein, June 24 - September 4, 1988 Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona, The West Remembered: The Art of Edward Borein, February 16 - April 30, 1990 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, Edward Borein: Art of the West from the Katherine H. Haley Collection, February 8 - April 28, 1991. 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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Jared Sanders April Pastures Oil on Board Painting

Lot # 488 (Sale Order: 488 of 1017)      

Title is April Pastures 1999. 12" by 16" unframed. 19 5/8" by 23 3/4" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: Private Collection, Florida Jared Sanders (Born 1970) is active/li...moreves in Utah. Jared Sanders is known for Tonalist landscape painting. Jared Sanders was born in a small town in northern Utah, and his love of drawing and painting the rural landscapes of his hometown began at an early age and grew throughout his school years. With the goal of becoming a professional artist in mind, Sanders attended Utah State University and studied under the tutelage of Glen Edwards. It wasn't long after graduation that he attracted the attention of both galleries and collectors. Sanders' work demonstrates his lifelong intimate connection to nature. His palette is muted - soft browns, dusky yellows, and burnt reds contrast with blues and greens subdued by gray. His artistic process is measured and very detailed. After scouting potential landscape subjects and taking hundreds of snapshots, he sorts through the best candidates, sketching some in pencil. He then transfers the sketch to gesso board using brown or sienna oils finished in warm gray or ochre tones, focusing on getting the color of one object or shape in the painting perfect. In his own words, Sanders describes his favorite seasons to paint,: "I like it in autumn after all the leaves have fallen from the trees. And my favorite time is in spring when winter is just leaving - nothing is green yet, everything is still dead from the winter, the trees are leafless, the willows are red, and a few patches of snow are left on the ground." Jared's work continues to depict the farmlands, hills, rivers, and trees reminiscent of his youth.

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William Alther Cold Berries Oil on Board Painting

Lot # 489 (Sale Order: 489 of 1017)      

Title is Cold Berries. 12" by 12" unframed, 17" by 17" framed. Provenance: Breckenride Gallery. William (Bill) Alther (Born 1959) is active/lives in Texas, Colorado, Kans...moreas. William Alther is known for Wildlife, animal and sporting art painting. William Alther was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1959. Art has always played a significant role in his life. From an early age he had an interest in drawing, particularly animals. A degree in wildlife biology from Texas A&M University eventually led to a zoology position at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Throughout, he was an active artist and in 2004 began painting full-time. The natural world continues to be his chief inspiration. "I like the idea of being open to a variety of subject matter and I've dabbled in other genres such as still-life and figure. but obviously, animals and landscape command my attention time and time again. In any case, I try to be very conscious of the elements common to any good painting such as structure and paint quality." William is devoted to the life-long process of learning, evolving and maturing as an artist. To that end, his continuing development has included workshops and studies with artist such as T. Allen Lawson and Kevin Weckbach. In particular, friend and mentor Mark Daily is a great influence and has inspired high standards. William is a member of Oil Painters of America and the Society of Animal Artists. His work is regularly juried into their annual exhibitions as well as other national shows.

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Clark Hulings Chimayo New Mexico Oil Painting

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Title is Mountains of Chimayo. 8" by 10" unframed. 17" by 19" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: Private Collection, New Mexico Clark Hulings (1922 - 2011) was active/live...mored in New York, New Mexico, Florida / Italy, Egypt, Spain, Romania. Clark Hulings is known for Town-landscape, genre and still life painting. An artist whose realistic paintings reflect his world-wide travels, Clark Hulings spent much time as a child in Spain and Louisiana and from these experiences developed a great interest in rustic settings and primitive lifestyles. Many of his works reflect old trees and old buildings, and throughout his career, he has frequently returned to Spain and Louisiana for subject matter. But he has made his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico where, with the help of Hispanic craftsman, he has built an adobe home. He was raised in a suburb of New York, trained at the Art Students League, and was inspired at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Realist and Impressionist painters. He became an illustrator, but the pull of landscape subjects led him to full time fine-art painting. He has been a dominant presence in contemporary Western art since the 1970s, although most of his work is non-western, and he never paints cowboys. He took the first-ever Prix de West at the National Academy of Western Art in 1973 and had numerous one-man shows at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and the Museum of New Mexico. For many years after this recognition for western art, he quit exhibiting, selling only to a select group of collectors, but in November, 1999, he will have a major exhibition of oil paintings at the Nedra Matteucci Galleries in Santa Fe.

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Edgar Alwin Payne Shadows at Dusk Oil Painting

Lot # 491 (Sale Order: 491 of 1017)      

Title is Shadows at Dusk. 12 1/2" by 14 1/2" unframed. 17" by 19 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, "Edgar Payne 1882-194...more7: An Exhibition of Western and Marine Paintings," April 6 - April 30, 1970 Condition: Board crease in top left corner as shown. Edgar Alwin Payne (1883 - 1947) was active/lived in California, Missouri. Edgar Payne is known for Western landscape and waterscape painting. Born in Washburn, Missouri, Edgar Payne became one of the foremost plein-air landscape painters of California in the early 20th century. He is best known for his majestic Sierra Nevada Mountain scenes, and depicted so many Indians on horseback riding through the Sierra Nevada Mountains that a mountain lake, Lake Payne, was named for him. He painted many works "en plein air" and also did numerous sketches from which he later did studio paintings. He worked quickly and completed about one painting per day. He depicted many other locations as well including the coast of Laguna Beach, the Canadian Rockies, the French and Swiss Alps, the Italian and French Riviera, fishing scenes of Italy and France, and landscapes in the Southwest including the Grand Canyon and Canyon de Chelly in Arizona. Payne was active in Chicago early in his career and there had a distinguished reputation for painting stage scenery for famous actresses and for mural painting. He left home at age 14 because his father objected so strongly to his son's dedication to an art career. He earned money painting houses, stage sets and murals, and traveled through the Ozarks, Texas, Mexico and Chicago where he received a major commission from the Congress Hotel for an 11,000 foot mural of Italian gardens. (Since destroyed). In Chicago, he was active with the Chicago Society of Artists and the Alumni Association of the Art Institute. He was self-taught except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. Of his art education, his daughter said: "My father never studied with anyone. He tried the Chicago Art Institute for a little while, but he didn't like it. He considered himself to be completely self-taught." ("Plein Air" 26) In 1909, he first visited California and painted scenes of Laguna Beach and San Francisco. During this time he discovered the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains, where he returned continually throughout his career for the inspiration that led to his signature paintings and a turning from murals and stage sets to landscape painting. He married artist Elsie Palmer in 1912, and the couple with their daughter, Evelyn, born in 1914, moved to Laguna Beach. They rented a beach-side cottage while Edgar built a home, which was the only one the family ever owned. They lived in it for three years, and it was a uniquely stable time for the family that traveled frequently in search of painting subjects. Payne decided he wanted to have an art gallery for exhibiting artists, and in 1920 he became the founder and first president of the Laguna Beach Art Association and the Gallery of Laguna Beach. The first meeting was held in his studio. The Paynes later moved to Los Angeles so they could be closer to the Stendahl Galleries, which was in the Ambassador Hotel and represented his work. In 1916, the Santa Fe Railroad commissioned him to paint the Southwest, and the couple spent four months in Canyon de Chelly. They also traveled and sketched the Grand Canyon and scenes of New Mexico and spent several years, 1922 to 1924, in Europe. Payne had a commercial artist friend, George Evans, who visited them in Europe, and according to Payne's daughter, Evans and the Paynes spent much time looking at artwork in museum. In the 1923 Paris Salon, Payne won an Honorable Mention, which was significant recognition because more than 7000 paintings were exhibited. During the Depression, Payne took teaching jobs to earn money for him and his family, and he also wrote his book, "Composition of Outdoor Painting", which, with many printings, has been a popular guide to landscape painting. He and his wife continued to spend much time in New York City and had planned to build a house there, but did not start the project because of the economy. The couple separated in 1932, but Elsie, who subsequently had a very successful career, returned to live with him towards the end of his life when he was ill. A major problem between them was his dominant personality and her resentment that her own considerable talents were submerged by his demands. Apparently he felt remorse. Their daughter wrote that "the last words her father spoke to her on his last day of life in 1947 were that 'he was sorry he had been so selfish and that everything had been for his art.' " ("Plein Air" 26)

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W Clarence McGrath Guatemalan Girl Painting

Lot # 492 (Sale Order: 492 of 1017)      

Title is Jovena de Chichicastenango. 12" by 18" unframed. 21 1/2" by 27 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. W. Clarence McGrath (1938 - 2007) was active/lived in California, New M...moreexico, Arizona. W McGrath is known for Indian figure, genre, landscape. A native of the American southwest, W. Clarence McGrath began life in Arizona, son of a sharecropper. To help support the family, he worked as a farm and ranch hand and as a sheepherder. In his spare time, he painted and sketched. Encouraged by his family, and by hometown artists and druggist Hal Empie, McGrath received early recognition as well as the rudiments of his chosen profession. His high school art teacher, Shorty Clothier, and Glen West, his art instructor at Eastern Arizona Junior College, helped mold the young artist. In the 1950's, McGrath realized that his art could support him and spent a year in Phoenix sketching portraits. He and his family moved to Southern California, where McGrath hoped to make a living as a portrait painter at Knotts Berry Farm. However, the busy tourist season had ended, and he had to work in a warehouse to earn a living. After working hours, McGrath studied with local artists Phil Gilkerson, Sergei Bongart and Leon Franks. From Bongart he adopted the habit of painting with music in the background. In his painting, McGrath continued to follow his own proclivities, painting what and how it pleased him. His ability began to support him, and in 1962, McGrath earned the J.F. and Anna Lee Stacey Fellowship Award, which provided a painting trip to Central America. Within the next ten years, the painter sold his belongings and moved to Mexico, spending his time painting and living there, New Mexico and Southern California. Now known as a realist painter who focuses on the human element, McGrath's work is often compared to that of the Russian painter, Nicolai Fechin, in technique and subject matter.

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John Nieto Portrait of Armond Lara Pencil Drawing

Lot # 493 (Sale Order: 493 of 1017)      

Title is Portrait of Armond Lara. 8" by 8" unframed. 15" by 15" framed. Pencil on Paper. Provenance: Private Collection, New Mexico. The Estate of Armond Lara, Given to L...moreara by the Artist. John W. Nieto (1936 - 2018) was active/lived in Texas, New Mexico. John Nieto is known for Native American theme painting, etching, graphics, sculpture. John Nieto calls himself an American artist who paints Indians, not an Indian artist. An acclaimed leader of his field, but taking a separate path to represent Native Americans in striking symbolic portraits, Nieto is exhibited worldwide and has had paintings accepted for the Presidential library. He does not attempt to be authentic, but to show a core Native spirit. His Indians seem to belong to a universal tribe that suggest a common, Far Eastern origin, and connection with a contemporary group. Early this century, Indian artists were cultivated in a white man's school and encouraged to portray ancestral and reservation experiences. Art from that period was inauthentic and oblivious to world trends. Since mid-century, Indian-born artists began to tell a bitter truth of Indian pain from alcoholism and other social problems. John Nieto belongs to neither camp. His Indians are not idealized or troubled. They are potters, warriors, silversmiths or shamans in traditional garb, as well as indigenous wildlife, painted in brilliant, oddly paired colors and radiating a quiet dignity. "There is no formula for my faces. I paint the dance of identity around the pan-Indian bone structure of all Native Americans. I am painting a person, but I am painting much more than that," says Nieto. He says that his art "is the result of an emotional involvement with my subject matter rather than a cerebral one." He uses broad strokes and thick layers of brilliant colors with a halo of contrasting color traced around each figure. His electric hues are unmistakable. Nieto's work reflects his upbringing from Hispanic and Indian-born parents. His distinct style comes not only from his native New Mexico, where he still lives, but also from a global awareness and travels to Europe. His unfettered use of brilliant colors has been likened to the Fauves of the 1920s' French movement. Nieto has spent time in Paris and also seems to be influenced by European expressionists who released the subconscious onto canvases. He also uses painting techniques and a spiritual awareness from the Far East. His approach is ritualistic. "I'm in a trance when I paint. It's like being a drummer -- you don't look at the drums, you just know intuitively where they are." An artist of established international reputation, Nieto's work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, Latin America, and Africa, in addition to his annual shows in Santa Fe, New York and Palm Springs. In 1981 his work was exhibited at the Salon DAutomne/Grand Palais in Paris, France. His work, the subject of two books and numerous articles, is also represented in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art. In 1994, Nieto received New Mexico's Governor's Award for achievement in the Arts. He has served on the Advisory Board of The Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, the Advisory Board of the Native American Preparatory School, and is a Regent at his alma mater, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree. John Nieto lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico, on the banks of the Rio Grande River. His roots run deep in the state of his birth, with ancestors going back more than 300 years.

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Illa Mae McAfee Cowboy Pen and Ink Drawing

Lot # 494 (Sale Order: 494 of 1017)      

Title is The Horse Doctor. 5 1/2" by 10 1/2" unframed, 21 1/2" by 26 1/2" framed. Pen and Ink on Paper. Provenance: The Gregory Warren Nelson Collection, Taos, New Mexico...more Ila Mae McAfee (1897 - 1995) was active/lived in New Mexico, New York, Colorado. Ila McAfee is known for Portrait and animal painting, sculpture, textile design. Ila Mae McAfee was born 1897 in the small ranching community of Sargents in southwestern Colorado near Gunnison. She died in 1995 in Pueblo, Colorado, where she moved after leaving her adobe home in Taos, New Mexico in late summer 1993. She was raised on her family's ranch south of Gunnison, and attended Logan County School, riding ten miles each way to school. In 1916, she graduated from Gunnison High School and then spent time in Los Angeles at the West Lake School of Art and the Haz Art School (1917-1918). Returning to Colorado, she studied art with Catherine and Henry Ricter at Western State College where she earned a BA degree in 1919. The next year she went to Chicago and became a student of muralist James E McBurney and served as his assistant until 1924. During this time, she was also influenced by sculptor Lorado Taft. In 1925, she attended in New York the National Academy of Design, and 1926, the Art Students League. She also worked as an illustrator and painter of miniature animals during this period. In 1926, McAfee married Elmer Page Turner, an artist whom she had met on her parent's Colorado ranch, and that same year she visited Taos, New Mexico. Two years later, she and her husband settled there, and in 1929, they built the White Horse Studio, which continued to be her residence until 1993, when she moved to Pueblo, Colorado. In Taos, she became known for her pueblo paintings and her depictions of horses and other animals as well as Native Americans, ranch scenes, and landscapes. In 1981, she was voted Taos Artist of the Year. She also worked as a WPA artist, completing many commissions for post office locations such as Edmond, Oklahoma, and Clifton, Texas.

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Harley Brown Native American Indian Pastel Drawing

Lot # 495 (Sale Order: 495 of 1017)      

Title is Poor Eagle. 13" by 17" unframed. 27" by 30 1/2" framed. Pastel on Paper. Harley W. Brown (Born 1939) is active/lives in Arizona, Alberta / Canada. Harley Brown i...mores known for Portrait and animal painting, ethnic caricature, teaching. A Western painter and sculptor of figures and domestic animals, Harley Brown was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1939, and lives in Tucson, Arizona. His father was an amateur artist who encouraged his young son from age seven to pursue art. After graduation from high school, young Brown began doing department store window displays for an impressive $150 a month. Later, he attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, supporting himself by selling his drawings door to door, and playing piano professionally. After studying at the Camberwell School of Art in England for two years, Brown began to make a name for himself in Western art, and in 1966, he returned to Canada. Shortly after, Brown met Bob Morgan, curator of the Montana State Historical Society. Morgan put together a one-man show for Brown, where he sold all 70 of his paintings. His career made another leap forward when he received a call from Bob Lougheed to submit some of his work for the National Academy of Western Art show, where he won a gold medal for drawing in 1977. He is a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Artists, Helena, Montana; National Association of Watercolor Artists; Oil Painters of America*; Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Cowboy Artists of America* since 2004. In 2005, he won two gold medals at the CAA annual exhibition. He says of membership in the CAA: "Being allowed to join them is a monumental event in my life." (CA) Brown's work is in the collections of the C. M. Russell Museum; National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; and Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Harley Brown was commissioned to paint Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and has painted many portraits of other well-known persons including President Ronald Reagan. His painting media include oil, watercolor and pastel.

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John Nieto Armond Lara Self Portrait Drawing

Lot # 496 (Sale Order: 496 of 1017)      

Title is Self Portrait with Armond Lara. 7" by 8" unframed. 15" by 16 1/2" framed. Pencil on Paper. Provenance: Private Collection, New Mexico. The Estate of Armond Lara,...more Given to Lara by the Artist. John W. Nieto (1936 - 2018) was active/lived in Texas, New Mexico. John Nieto is known for Native American theme painting, etching, graphics, sculpture. John Nieto calls himself an American artist who paints Indians, not an Indian artist. An acclaimed leader of his field, but taking a separate path to represent Native Americans in striking symbolic portraits, Nieto is exhibited worldwide and has had paintings accepted for the Presidential library. He does not attempt to be authentic, but to show a core Native spirit. His Indians seem to belong to a universal tribe that suggest a common, Far Eastern origin, and connection with a contemporary group. Early this century, Indian artists were cultivated in a white man's school and encouraged to portray ancestral and reservation experiences. Art from that period was inauthentic and oblivious to world trends. Since mid-century, Indian-born artists began to tell a bitter truth of Indian pain from alcoholism and other social problems. John Nieto belongs to neither camp. His Indians are not idealized or troubled. They are potters, warriors, silversmiths or shamans in traditional garb, as well as indigenous wildlife, painted in brilliant, oddly paired colors and radiating a quiet dignity. "There is no formula for my faces. I paint the dance of identity around the pan-Indian bone structure of all Native Americans. I am painting a person, but I am painting much more than that," says Nieto. He says that his art "is the result of an emotional involvement with my subject matter rather than a cerebral one." He uses broad strokes and thick layers of brilliant colors with a halo of contrasting color traced around each figure. His electric hues are unmistakable. Nieto's work reflects his upbringing from Hispanic and Indian-born parents. His distinct style comes not only from his native New Mexico, where he still lives, but also from a global awareness and travels to Europe. His unfettered use of brilliant colors has been likened to the Fauves of the 1920s' French movement. Nieto has spent time in Paris and also seems to be influenced by European expressionists who released the subconscious onto canvases. He also uses painting techniques and a spiritual awareness from the Far East. His approach is ritualistic. "I'm in a trance when I paint. It's like being a drummer -- you don't look at the drums, you just know intuitively where they are." An artist of established international reputation, Nieto's work has been exhibited in Europe, Japan, Latin America, and Africa, in addition to his annual shows in Santa Fe, New York and Palm Springs. In 1981 his work was exhibited at the Salon DAutomne/Grand Palais in Paris, France. His work, the subject of two books and numerous articles, is also represented in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art. In 1994, Nieto received New Mexico's Governor's Award for achievement in the Arts. He has served on the Advisory Board of The Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, the Advisory Board of the Native American Preparatory School, and is a Regent at his alma mater, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree. John Nieto lives and works in Corrales, New Mexico, on the banks of the Rio Grande River. His roots run deep in the state of his birth, with ancestors going back more than 300 years.

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Charles M Russell Packhorse Pencil Drawing

Lot # 497 (Sale Order: 497 of 1017)      

Title is Packhorse Study. 4" by 5 5/8" unframed. 13 1/4" by 19 7/8" framed. Pen and Ink on Paper, donkey is shaded with pencil. Property: The Estate of Bill LaWarre, Cinc...moreinnati, Ohio. The Estate of Nancy C. Russell June 1941. Accompanied by a letter from Ginger K. Renner attesting to authenticity. 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

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Harold von Schmidt Cowboy Oil Painting

Lot # 498 (Sale Order: 498 of 1017)      

Title is Rough for Opening Spread Cosmo 1938. 7 1/2" by 10 1/2" unframed, 14 3/4" by 18 3/4" framed. Oil on Board. The Finished Picture is located in the A.R. Mitchel Mus...moreeum Trinidad Colorado. Provenance: The Gregory Warren Nelson Collection, Taos, New Mexico Harold von Schmidt (1893 - 1982) was active/lived in New York, California, Connecticut. Harold von Schmidt is known for Western painting, illustration. For more than half a century, the illustrations and paintings of Harold Von Schmidt were familiar to the American public. His work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Cosmopolitan, American and other magazines for 20 years, beginning in 1925. He also illustrated Willa Cather's novel, Death Comes to the Archbishop, and was commissioned in 1960 to design the Pony Express commemorative stamp for the United States postal service. Born in 1893 in Alameda, California, Von Schmidt was orphaned at five. He was raised by his grandfather and an aunt who encouraged his interest in art. As a young man, he spent his summers working as a lumberjack, cowpuncher and construction worker. After two years' study with F.H. Meyers at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Von Schmidt did his first cover design in 1913 for Sunset magazine. While attending the San Francisco Art Institute* from 1915 to 1918, he became art director at the Foster and Klein advertising agency. He also made paintings for the Navy in World War I. Von Schmidt was a member of the United States rugby team in the 1920 Olympics. That year, he and artists Maynard Dixon, Roi Partridge, Judson Starr and Fred Ludekens set up their own agency. He came East in 1924 to study at the Grand Central School of Art* in New York City with Harvey Dunn, a former student of Howard Pyle. During World War II, Von Schmidt was an artist-correspondent for King Features Syndicate and the air force. He continued to produce non-commercial work, as well as illustrations. He did twelve paintings of the Gold Rush for the California governor's offices, and 5 Civil War paintings for the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Harold Von Schmidt was a founder of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut. He died in 1982.

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Kristi Hager Donald Trump Genie Oil Painting

Lot # 499 (Sale Order: 499 of 1017)      

Title is Wish for War. 5" by 5" unframed. Oil on Board. Provenance: The Estate of Kristi Hager Kristi Hager (January 22, 1946 - November 12, 2024) Montana. Kristi Hager i...mores known for Painting. Kristi Hager lives in Missoula and has worked as a self-employed photographer and painter in Montana since 1984. Hager earned BA in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received the Montana Arts Council Artist’s Innovation Award in 2010. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, the Capital One collection, and the Missoula Art Museum.

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William Matthews Watercolor Painting

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Title is Along the Madison River. 11" by 13" unframed. 21" by 22" framed. Watercolor on Paper. William Matthews (Born 1949) is active/lives in Colorado, California. Willi...moream Matthews is known for Cowboy figure-genre and western landscape painting. William Matthews was born in 1949 in New York City. He grew up in the Bay area. His professional career began in Los Angeles as a graphic artist designing album covers for Warner Bros., and Capitol Records. A listing of commissioned artwork for Album Covers and Compact Discs are listed below. The 2007 published monograph, William Matthews : Working the West, showcases the artist's work devoted to the working cowboys of the American west. Forbes, FYI, magazine hailed him as the new Remington of American painting. Other areas of study are included in the Exhibition Catalogs; Hats & Headwear,(2008); Yellowstone,(2007); Italy,(2007); Canyon de Chelly,(2005); Scotland,(2003); A Wet Line: Fly-fishing on the Rivers of North American,(2002); Land of the Rajput,(2001); Buckaroos of the Great Basin,(2000); Fast Horses,(1999); Ireland,(1997); Heart Land,(1996); China,(1995); The Blue Nile,(1993); and Sketches of Spain,(1992). William Matthews paintings are widely exhibited nationally and internationally. His work has been part of two Meridian International Center curated exhibitions, Out West: The Great American Landscape, 2007-2008, and True Colors: Meditation on the American Spirit, 200-2005, venues included; the National Art Museum of China; Shanghai Art Museum; Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Center; the Topkapi Palace, Instanbul; the Allied Museum, Berlin; National Gallery of the Arts, Albania; Millennium Court Arts Center, Northern Ireland. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including, Museum of the West, Autry National Center; Buffalo Bill Historical Center; Eiteljorg Museum; The National Cowboy Hall of Fame; Gilcrease Museum; Joslyn Museum; Booth Western Art Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; Tuscon Museum of Art; and the Denver Art Museum.

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