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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Antique Native American Indian Ledger Drawing

Lot # 526 (Sale Order: 526 of 1017)      

15 1/4" by 20 3/4" framed. First Quarter of the 20th Century....more

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Jack Murray Western Outdoors Magazine Painting

Lot # 527 (Sale Order: 527 of 1017)      

Original Oil on Canvas Illustration for the January 1971 cover of Western Outdoors magazine. 14" by 18" unframed. 18" by 22" framed. Oil on Canvas. Jack Murray (Born 1889...more) was active/lived in Pennsylvania. Jack Murray is known for Illustrator, genre, wildlife, dogs. Murray was a city kid who, very early in life, developed an interest in wildlife. Born in 1889, he grew up in Boston, where he began drawing animals while still in grade school. Murray would later graduate from the renowned Massachusetts School of Art, where he met his future wife, fellow artist Helena Feeny. The couple married in 1921 and, in lieu of a honeymoon, moved to New York that very day. In New York, Murray found work as a commercial artist, which soon afforded the two of them the opportunity to buy a farm outside the city. There, he fixed up a studio where, in his spare time, he pursued his true passion, painting wildlife. Murray’s career reached a turning point when one of the paintings he had made purely for love — a majestic leopard (top) — was bought by The Saturday Evening Post. His discovery by the Post led to assignments for the American Museum of Natural History as well as books and magazines, including The Country Gentleman and Boy’s Life. In 1947, his image of a pair of snow geese mid-flight was selected for the Federal Duck Stamp Program. All told, Murray would paint 12 covers for the Post. His final one depicting two white wolves closing in on prey appeared on the March 8, 1941, issue — and once again on the January/February 2016 cover.

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William Standing Montana Oil on Board Painting

Lot # 528 (Sale Order: 528 of 1017)      

Title is Prairie Skies. 8" by 11" unframed. 11" by 14 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. Condition: Paint exhibits flaking in the top third right hand side. Two small divots in b...moreoard as shown. Top third of painting exhibits crackling. Conservation should be done on the work to prevent further deterioration. William Standing (1904 - 1951) was active/lived in Montana. William Standing is known for Horse, landscape, Indian, genre. William Standing was born July 27, 1904 in Oswego, Montana. He was a Native American, member of the Assiniboine Tribe. Educated at the Wolf Point Mission School and, from 1920-24, at the Haskell Indian School in Lawrence where he received his formal art instruction. Standing was one of the five Kiowa Indians who became special students at the Univ. of Oklahoma under the guidance of Oscar Jacobson during the 1920s. After attending Haskell Institute, he worked as an interior decorator in Kansas. Standing is best known for his humorous sketches published as postcards, and he was also adept in oil, watercolor, and clay. During the 1930s, in collaboration with James Long, he produced a book, The Land of the Nakoda. This volume, an in-depth sketch study of the Assiniboine tribe, is the focal point of the greatest body of Standing's works. He died on June 27, 1951 in Oswego, Montana.

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Attributed to Horatio McCulloch Scottish Painting

Lot # 529 (Sale Order: 529 of 1017)      

Title is Castle on the Loch. 18" by 24" unframed. 22" by 28" framed. Unsigned. Oil on Canvas. Some restoration as shown. PROVENANCE: Martin Lane Historic & Western Americ...moreana Lifetime Collection. Horatio McCulloch (1806 - 1867) was active/lived in United Kingdom, Scotland. Horatio McCulloch is known for Landscape painting, theatre sets. Horatio McCulloch (R.S.A.), sometimes written M'Culloch, (1806 in Glasgow, Scotland - June 24, 1867 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a Scottish landscape painter. He was trained in the studio of the Glasgow landscape painter John Knox (1778-1845) for about one year alongside David Macnee (1806-1882) and at first earned his living as a decorative painter. He was then engaged at Cumnock, painting the ornamental lids of snuffboxes, and afterwards employed in Edinburgh by William Home Lizars, the engraver, to colour the illustrations in Prideaux John Selby's British Birds and similar works. After he moved to Edinburgh in 1825, he began painting in the tradition of Alexander Nasmyth. Working from nature, he was greatly influenced in his early practice by the watercolours of H. V. Williams. He returned to Glasgow in 1827, and was employed on several large pictures for the decoration of a public hall in St. George's Place, and he also worked as a theatrical scene-painter. Gradually MacCulloch asserted his individuality, and formed his own style. In 1829 McCulloch first figured in the Royal Scottish Academy's exhibition. (He was a regular exhibitor year by year afterwards.) By the early 1830s McCulloch's exhibits with the Glasgow Dilettanti Society and with the Royal Scottish Academy had begun to attract buyers, notably the newly instituted Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. A commission from Lord Provost James Lumsden helped established the artist's reputation within Scotland. Commissions from book and print publishers allowed him to concentrate on easel painting. On his election as full Academician of the Scottish Academy in 1838, McCulloch settled in Edinburgh and soon became a prominent figure in the artistic life of the capital and a prolific contributor to the Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions. At the same time contact with Glasgow was maintained: McCulloch's favorite sketching grounds were in the west, he exhibited regularly in the city and his most loyal patrons were wealthy Glasgow industrialists such as David Hutcheson, the steamship owner. He seldom exhibited outside Scotland and only once at the Royal Academy, London (1843), but he kept in touch with London artist-friends, John Phillip, David Roberts and John Wilson (1774-1855), through correspondence and visits. His own art collection was evidence of his admiration for 17th-century Dutch painters, for J. M. W. Turner and Richard Wilson and for contemporaries such as Clarkson Stanfield. During one of his trips to Skye he met his future wife, Marcella McLellan of Gillean, near the township of Tarskavaig. It is known that he had several dogs of the Skye Terrier breed at his Edinburgh home and it is possible that he brought them from Skye with his wife. McCulloch died on June 24 in 1867. He is buried at Warriston Cemetery in Edinburgh. His widow Marcella McLellan from Sleat on the Isle of Skye, after his death emigrated to Australia. They had no children. During his lifetime Horatio McCulloch became one of the best-known and most successful landscape painters in Scotland. His painted the silence of the Highland wilderness where the wild deer roam with the kind of poetic truthfulness he admired in Wordsworth. The accomplished watercolours and broadly painted oil sketches that he produced throughout his career attracted little notice at the time and have remained comparatively unknown. His early works include paintings of Cadzow Forest near Hamilton and grand views of the Clyde. He undertook regular summer sketching tours of the West Highlands, completing the sketches as paintings as back in his studio. These paintings celebrate the romantic scenery of the Scottish Highlands and evoke a magnificent sense of scale, emphasizing the dramatic grandeur. Horatio McCulloch had by his death in 1867 created the essential iconography of the Highlands.

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Raphael Lillywhite Colorado Oil on Canvas Painting

Lot # 530 (Sale Order: 530 of 1017)      

Title is Colorado Landscape. 14" by 24" unframed. 27 3/4" by 17 1/2" framed. Oil on Canvas. Raphael Lillywhite (1891 - 1958) was active/lived in Colorado, Wyoming, Arizon...morea. Raphael Lillywhite is known for Frontier-Indian genre and landscape painting. Born in Woodruff, Arizona, he was a painter of western scenes. He was one of 15 children in a Mormon family that operated a trading post along the Little Colorado River and was named Raphael for the famous artist. He was educated in Mormon schools and graduated from the University of Utah. He also studied with Gonzales and Ed Tigera in Sonora, Mexico. After marriage in 1924, he settled near Walden, Colorado, where he painted scenes of ranch life and the Old West, an interest that began with his early exposure to pack trains and Indians. From 1940 to 1942, he also painted thirteen habitat backgrounds of bird and mammal groups, and in 1943, he moved to Laramie, Wyoming.

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Evalyn Gertrude James Golden October Painting

Lot # 531 (Sale Order: 531 of 1017)      

Title is Golden October Brazil Indiana 1964. 12" by 16" unframed. 19" by 23" framed. Evalyn Gertrude James (1898 - 1990) was active/lived in Indiana, Illinois. Evalyn Jam...morees is known for Painting, illustration, lecturing, and educating. Evalyn Gertrude James was a painter, illustrator, craftsperson and lecturer whose topics included "Art in Indiana" and "Chemically Related Pigments for Artists." She chaired the Art Department and was professor of Art at the Indiana State Teachers' College (State Normal) of Terre Haute, Indiana. She was also chairman of the State Committee on Art Courses for Schools of Indiana. The art education of Evalyn James was with William Forsythe, at the John Herron Art Institute, Earlham College and Indiana University where she took the A.B. and A.M. degrees and did graduate work on her Ph.D. Exhibitions included Herron Art Institute, Swope Art Gallery and Purdue University. Prizes: Indiana State Fair.

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Allan Stover California WPA Oil Painting

Lot # 532 (Sale Order: 532 of 1017)      

Title is Hollywood Hills Los Angeles. 8" by 10" unframed, 9 1/2" by 11 1/2" framed. Oil on Board. Allan James Stover (1887 - 1967) was active/lived in Oregon, California,...more Mississippi. Allan Stover is known for Illustrator-forestry, landscape. Painter, illustrator. Born in West Point, MS on Oct. 9, 1887. Stover studied at the Cleveland School of Art. He lived in Corvallis, OR with studios in Eagle Rock and Point Loma, CA through the 1930s. During the Depression he worked as an artist for the WPA. As an illustrator, he worked mostly in pen-and-ink. He died in Ocean Beach, CA on July 29, 1967. Exh: Eagle Rock Artists, 1929-31; Calif. WC Society, 1930. AAA 1919-33; FId; WWAA 1936-41; AAW.

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Emil Bisttram Taos New Mexico Pastel Drawing

Lot # 533 (Sale Order: 533 of 1017)      

Title is Sunset over the Desert. 15" by 19" unframed, 21" by 24 1/2" framed. Pastel on Paper. Provenance: Altermann Galleries 04/01/2011 Lot 173, Owings Dewey Fine Art Em...moreil James Bisttram (1895 - 1976) was active/lived in New Mexico, New York / Hungary. Emil Bisttram is known for Dynamic symmetry, non objective painting. Hungarian born, Emil Bisttram became one of the Southwest's leading painters and teachers. He was a founder of the Transcendental Art movement in New Mexico, devoted to themes exploring and promoting universal meaning that included idealistic forms and colors that suggested sounds. Best known as an abstract painter, his style ranged from the classic regionalism of the 1930s (WPA murals) to abstractions based on the dynamic symmetry theories he learned from Jay Hambidge, tempered by Roerich's Russian mysticism. Indeed, Bisttram would often speak of his association with Nicholas Roerich at the Master Institute in New York City, citing a story where the Russian master handed him a handful of wider brushes for his birthday thus indicating that he should employ broader strokes in his paintings. He received his artistic training in New York at the National Academy of Design, Cooper Union, and the Art Students League and with Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. In 1930, Bisttram first traveled to Taos, New Mexico, but found himself frustrated by the grandeur and limitless space of the scenery. Initially he directed his attention to watercolor depictions of Southwest Indian ceremonial dances. "His credo was to paint not so much for the sake of art as 'for the spiritual insight he gains from the act of creation." (Gibson 56). He went for several months to Mexico to study mural painting with Diego Rivera, taught briefly in Phoenix, Arizona, and in 1931, settled in Taos. There he established the Taos School of Art and frequently lectured on comparisons of modern and representational art and promoted the theories of Kandinsky and Mondrian. He also started the Heptagon Gallery in Taos. He co-founded with Raymond Jonson the Transcendental Painting Group that promoted non-objective painting, and for a period devoted himself to painting symphonic rhythms. However, he also did realistic subjects, believing that an artist should not limit his style. His murals can be found in the courthouses in Taos and Roswell, New Mexico and the lobby of the Department of Justice Building in Washington DC.

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Maynard Dixon Mexican Girl Oct. 1926 Drawing

Lot # 534 (Sale Order: 534 of 1017)      

Title is Mexican Girl (Oct. 1926). 8" by 10 1/2" unframed, 16 5/8" by 20 1/2" framed. Charcoal on paper. Provenance: Coeur d’Alene Art Auction 07/21/2012 Lot 243, The Art...moreist, gifted to Joe Coppa, San Francisco, California Present owner, by descent Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946) was active/lived in California, Arizona. Maynard Dixon is known for Western landscape painting-skyscapes, Indians. Born in Fresno, CA on Jan. 24, 1875. A sickly child, sketching occupied a lot of Dixon's time while growing up. As a boy he listened with fascination to the stories of the Old West told by the old timers. It is no wonder that cowboys and Indians were to become the main subject matter of his life's work. At 16 he sent his sketch book to Frederic Remington who encouraged him to pursue an art career. The Dixon family moved to Alameda, CA in 1893, the year the artist's first illustration was published in Overland Monthly. Dixon enrolled at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute, but the confines of a classroom were not to his liking and he remained only three months. In 1895 he took his first full-time job as an illustrator for the San Francisco Morning Call and continued four years later with the Examiner. By 1899 he was making regular sketching trips into the Northwest and Southwest, during which time he was exhibiting regularly with the San Francisco Art Ass'n. In 1905 he married artist Lillian West Tobey. A year later the earthquake and fire destroyed his studio and most of his early works. The Dixons then lived across the Golden Gate in Sausalito until 1907 when he accepted a commission from the Southern Pacific Railroad to paint a mural for their depot in Tucson, AZ. Afterwards he moved to New York where he continued his magazine illustrations. Upon returning to California in 1912, he abandoned commercial art to concentrate on easel paintings and murals. During the PPIE of 1915 he suffered a nervous breakdown and divorced his wife in 1917. He married photographer Dorothea Lange in 1920. This marriage lasted until 1935 and in 1937 he married artist Edith Hamlin. During the 1930s he did murals and paintings for the WPA. In 1938 ill health forced his move to the drier climate of Tucson, AZ where he spent his last years while maintaining a studio nearby in Mt Carmel, UT. Dixon died in Tucson on Nov. 14, 1946. Today he is internationally famous for his western subjects which he often signed with his logo, an Indian Thunderbird.

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Charles Livingston Bull Black Bear Illustration

Lot # 535 (Sale Order: 535 of 1017)      

Title is Little Maniac Clung to the Big Beast's Snout. 8 1/2" by 12 1/2" unframed, 20 3/4" by 24 3/4" framed. Ink, pencil and gouache on paper. Provenance: Big Sky Collec...moretion, Larry and LeAnne Peterson, Sisters OR. Illustrated for a book/magazine at some point. Charles Livingston Bull (1874 - 1932) was active/lived in New Jersey. Charles Bull is known for Wildlife, genre, illustrator, mural. Charles Livingston Bull(1874- 1932) was the premier wildlife artist of his time in America, perhaps the best of his kind in the world. He drew and painted realistic animals, a subject he explored through literature. Bull loved animals, but because of his father's harping that art was a waste of time, he also apprenticed in taxidermy, an occupation that greatly contributed to his expertise on animal anatomy. He also took evening drawing classes at the Mechanic's Institute in his home town of Rochester, and there he met Harvey Ellis. With him and several other artists, he formed the Rochester Arts & Crafts Society, one of the first groups in the United States to focus on the Arts and Crafts movement. Eventually he earned the position of chief taxidermist at the National Museum in Washington, D.C. and became an expert on animal anatomy. His stature as a taxidermist grew. In 1901, Bull made his first trip to New York City to garner stories to illustrate from magazines such as Century, McClure's, Outing, and The Saturday Evening Post. By 1902, he had gained considerable recognition for his illustrations in two books, Jack London's "Call of the Wild" and Charles Robertss "The Kindred of the Wild." In 1911, he published Under the Roof of the Jungle, a book detailing his experiences in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Bulls' top position in the field of wildlife illustration was assured. Like most illustrators of his time, Bull also did work for advertising campaigns. Perhaps his most famous is his 1920 advertising poster of the "leaping tiger" for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. During World War I, Bull created patriotic posters featuring the bald eagle and, in fact, maintained a life-long interest in saving eagles from extinction. Like many other illustrators, he made money creating images for advertising campaigns. Perhaps his most famous piece is the 1920 "leaping tiger" poster for Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Most of Bulls' artistic career was spent in Oradell, New Jersey, where he settled with his wife in 1910. A description by a neighbor calls him "a quiet, totally abstracted, very pleasant man who never said anything and who lived for his work and his animals." Given such modesty, it is not surprising that Bull ignored attempts by potential biographers. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, and was a member of the Salmagundi Club, Society of Mural Painters, and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

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Maurice Braun Glimpse of Desert Painting

Lot # 536 (Sale Order: 536 of 1017)      

Title is Glimpse of Desert. 25" by 30" unframed. 29 1/2" by 34 1/2" framed. Oil on Canvas. Up until this moment in time the painting title has been misattributed. All oth...moreer auction houses that have handled the painting have failed to identify the title that is written in the artist's hand on the back of the stretcher bar. Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 3/17/1994, lot 81A. Bonhams, 11/8/2023, Lot 90. Private Collection, Beverly Hills, CA Maurice Braun (1877 - 1941) was active/lived in California, New York / Hungary. Maurice Braun is known for Landscape, portrait and-still life painting. An established California plein-air painter in the Impressionist style, Maurice Braun painted landscapes reflecting moods of nature and his skill of showing the varying effects of light put San Diego into the national art scene. He was born in Nagy Bittse, Hungary, and immigrated to New York City in 1881 when he was four years old. He showed early art talent and interest and as a youngster, copying works of art at the Metropolitan Museum. From 1897 to 1902, he studied at the Academy of Design and then for one year with William Merritt Chase at the Chase School, which became the New York School. In 1902, he went to Europe, painting in Austria, Germany, and Hungary. He became a noted portrait and figure painter in New York but felt confined by subject matter. Then in 1910, attracted to the California landscape as a subject for his painting, he moved to San Diego and from his studio on Point Loma painted the French Impressionist influenced landscapes for which he became known. He was initially drawn to California because of an active Theosophical Society of which he had been a member since college and which espoused the merging of truths common to all religions. A special part of that religion was light as metaphor, a technique that he perfected in his painting. In 1912, he founded the San Diego Academy of Art and was its director for many years, although he returned to the East in 1921 and established studios in New York City, Silvermine, and Old Lyme, Connecticut. Several years later he returned to San Diego but from 1924 to 1929, continued to spend part of each year in the East. In 1929, he became one of the founders of the Contemporary Artists of San Diego, and he was also active in art circles in San Francisco and Los Angeles and exhibited with the California Art Club. He traveled and painted in the Southwest including the Grand Canyon.

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Loren Entz Spring Pasture Oil Painting

Lot # 537 (Sale Order: 537 of 1017)      

Title is Spring Pasture. 28" by 32" framed. 24" by 30". Oil on Canvas. Provenance: The Artist; From the Gary Jacobson Estate Loren Entz (1949 - 2022) was active/lived in ...moreMontana, Wyoming. Loren Entz is known for Contemporary western ranch genre, figure painting. Whereas many Western artists focus on either the more adventurous aspects of the historical West or contemporary ranch life, Loren Entz paints the quieter, more domestic side of rural living. His paintings often depict the simple moments that make up the fabric of everyday life such as mothers with their children, or a father holding an infant at the end of the hard day's work. Raised in a Kansas farming community outside of Newton, and living with his family in Billings, Montana after living in Wyoming, Loren Entz finds inspiration and beauty in people and domestic animals that live close to the land, especially Indians, horses, pioneer women and children. One of his major themes is preserving Indian culture. Like his paintings and drawings of ranch life, his depictions of Native American life often show domestic scenes with parents and children and necessary work being done in the context of events that closely tie family members together because they are doing mutual tasks. Entz is also carefully selective of subject matter, and often focuses on connections between the shared experiences of Anglos and Native Americans in the West. His emphasis is on the human emotions that unite, rather than divide, the many cultures that make up the past and the present worlds of the West. Although his paintings are frequently narrative in nature, many have their genesis in painting trips in the field. He has said that painting directly from nature allows him a greater degree of spontaneity. Working from his Billings studio in an historic building that he has remodeled, Entz approaches his subjects with first-hand knowledge from his background. He grew up in farm country and visits to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City fired his artistic imagination and ambition. He later worked as a Montana ranch hand, and coming into contact with other Western artists, Entz soon began to realize it was possible to actually make a living as an artist. While in high school, he nurtured his artistic talent through course work at the Famous Artists Correspondence School and through his studies with two masters of realistic painting, Bettina Steinke and Richard Schmid. Entz has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1992. Working in oil, charcoal, pencil, pastel, bronze and watercolor, he has received numerous CAA annual exhibition awards: Silver Medal for Oil Painting in 1994; Silver Award for Drawing and Other Media in 2007, 2005, 1995 and 1993; and Gold Medal for Drawing in 2003 and 1996. Of his affiliation with the Cowboy Artists of America, Entz is quoted in the organizations 2009 exhibition catalogue: "I'm very proud of my association with the CAA. My desire is to steadily grow as an artist and become the best painter and sculptor that I can become." (30) In 2006, Entz was the honored guest artist in Great Falls, Montana, of the C.M. Russell Auction of Original Western Art. That same year, he received the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award at the 2006 Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition. The award is given to the participating artist who wins the most votes from all of the participating artists for having the best show of three or more works. Recently a retrospective show was held for him at the Cowboy Artists of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas.

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Brent Flory Babies Blankets & Beads Oil Painting

Lot # 538 (Sale Order: 538 of 1017)      

Title is Babies Blankets & Beads. 18" by 24" unframed. 26" by 32" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: The Artist; From the Gary Jacobson Estate Brent Flory is active/lives ...morein Utah. Brent graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.F.A. in Illustration. He has been in numerous solo and juried shows including The Cowboy Christmas at the NFR in Las Vegas, Calgary Stampede and The Charles M. Russell show in Great Falls, MT. At the 2001 San Dimas, CA show, he received Best of Show, Festival Choice Award, and Silver Medal in oils. Brent was featured in the Fall 2001 Equine Vision Magazine, with his painting "All I Need", on the cover. Brent did the cover poster for the "Art of the American Cowboy” show at The South Point in Las Vegas in 2013. He received the "Best of Show” award at the NOAPS fall on line international exhibit in 2016. He also received the “Best New Entrant “award at the 2017 Bosque Art Classic. Brent and his wife and family live on a ranch in Wallsburg, UT. His work is held in many private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe, and Russia.

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Clark Hulings Torremolinos Spain 1968 Oil Painting

Lot # 539 (Sale Order: 539 of 1017)      

Title is Torremolinos Spain 1968. 18" by 27" unframed. 25 1/2" by 34" framed. Oil on Board. Provenance: Blair Galleries Santa Fe, NM. From a Private Collection Exhibited:...more Grand Central Galleries, New York, NY, Nov. 1968 Clark Hulings (1922 - 2011) was active/lived 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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Clark Hulings Noonday Altea Spain Oil Painting

Lot # 540 (Sale Order: 540 of 1017)      

Title is Noonday Altea Spain. 20" by 30" unframed. 27 1/2" by 37 1/2" framed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Blair Galleries Santa Fe, NM. From a Private Collection Exhibited...more: Grand Central Galleries, New York, NY, Nov. 1968 Clark Hulings (1922 - 2011) was active/lived 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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Frederic Remington The Hunter Oil Painting

Lot # 541 (Sale Order: 541 of 1017)      

Title is The Hunter. 20" by 30" unframed. 27 1/2" by 36 1/2" framed. Necomb Macklin Frame. Provenance: Private Georgia Estate. Christies Auction Ink Stamp in Verso Stretc...moreher Bar. Condition: Painting has been professionally cleaned, but no repair work has been done. Painting would benefit from conservation as shown. Cracklure to the paint, gesso on frame has crackling. Some loss to the frame. Paint is thinning in areas. Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861 - 1909) was active/lived in New York, Kansas, Connecticut. Frederic Remington is known for Western painting and sculpture, illustration. In his lifetime polymath Frederic Remington was the most successful and famous Western American artist. His immense talents included excelling as an illustrator, author, sculptor, and fine artist. His was a life tragically cut short. Born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, a small berg in bucolic upper state New York, he was much influenced by his father Seth Pierpont Remington, a Republican journalist who founded the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. His father had been a captain in the Civil War, and in 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him United States Collector of the Port of Ogdensburg, New York. In 1876 young Frederic enrolled at Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts where he studied for the next two years. Two years later he enrolled at Yale for one year to study in the School of Fine Arts. His two loves were art and football. Only three months into school, he published his first illustration in the on-campus newspaper Yale Courant. On the gridiron he was a natural, demonstrating great strength and agility. Like Theodore Roosevelt, Remington also enjoyed boxing. A year later he met his future wife Eva Caten from Gloversville, New York. After the death of Remington’s father from tuberculosis on February 18, 1879, Eva rejected his first marriage proposal. Floundering, Remington headed to the American West to find himself—much like Theodore Roosevelt did when his mother and wife died on the same day. That led to a trip to Montana where he completed a number of sketches. Invigorated by his Western experiences, in February 1883 he headed to Kansas and with part of his inheritance bought a 160 acre sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas. That failed adventure lasted about a year, and he then relocated to Kansas City, Missouri where Eva would join him as his wife. Yet he squandered the rest of his inheritance on a saloon there. After more illustrations were sold to Harper’s Weekly, in 1885 the Remingtons moved to New York City, and in 1886 he attended the Art Students League. By then Remington was earning $1,200 a year, twice the income of a school teacher. Other magazines such as St. Nicholas and Outing also published his art. His work certainly impressed a young Theodore Roosevelt who was chronicling his life in Medora—now in North Dakota—for a serial that ran in The Century Magazine. It was very common at the time for authors to serialize their works in magazines before they were published in book form. In the fall of 1887 Remington was commissioned to illustrate the magazine stories which ended up in Roosevelt’s 1888 classic book Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. Early on, a lasting friendship between the two was cemented through these publications. By 1889 he had garnered national notoriety as one of the most accomplished illustrators in the country. He was a national celebrity. In 1889 his monumental canvas A Dash for the Timber was exhibited at the National Academy of Design. The New York Times reported, "The picture at the Autumn exhibition of the Academy of Design before which stands the largest number of people is Frederic Remington’s Dash for the Timber." A Silver medal for Last Lull in the Fight followed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1891 the National Academy of Design elected Remington as an Associate member. Yet he was never admitted as National Academician, despite support from fellow artists Gilbert Gaul, Childe Hassam, and others. His financial success allowed the Remingtons to move into a grand home he named Ednion Algonquin for "a place where I live in New Rochelle, New York. A young Norman Rockwell would someday paint in his studio. Through his travels, Remington embraced social Darwinism survival of the fittest that championed the U.S. military’s domination of the inferior Native Americans. Theodore Roosevelt, George Armstrong Custer, and Remington along with most other Americans—idolized Charles Darwin. As early as 1888 Remington started contributing short stories along with illustrations to magazines. His writings teemed with romantic Western stories chalk full of drama and violence. Initially, they presented the cavalryman as the hero and the Indian as the villain, especially when the Indian had been tainted with the vices of the white man. His West was the "frontier model where the fittest were rugged individuals from northern Europe and white Americans. Even though he was an acco

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Frederic Remington The Trapper Oil Painting

Lot # 542 (Sale Order: 542 of 1017)      

Title is The Trapper. 20" by 30" unframed. 27 1/2" by 36 1/2" framed. Necomb Macklin Frame. Provenance: Private Georgia Estate, Same estate as prior lot, this lot lacks t...morehe Christies Auction ink stamp on the stretcher bar. Condition: Painting has been professionally cleaned, but no repair work has been done. Painting would benefit from conservation as shown. Cracklure to the paint, gesso on frame has crackling. Some loss to the frame. Paint is thinning in areas. Several puncture holes as shown. Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861 - 1909) was active/lived in New York, Kansas, Connecticut. Frederic Remington is known for Western painting and sculpture, illustration. In his lifetime polymath Frederic Remington was the most successful and famous Western American artist. His immense talents included excelling as an illustrator, author, sculptor, and fine artist. His was a life tragically cut short. Born on October 4, 1861 in Canton, a small berg in bucolic upper state New York, he was much influenced by his father Seth Pierpont Remington, a Republican journalist who founded the St. Lawrence Plaindealer. His father had been a captain in the Civil War, and in 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him United States Collector of the Port of Ogdensburg, New York. In 1876 young Frederic enrolled at Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts where he studied for the next two years. Two years later he enrolled at Yale for one year to study in the School of Fine Arts. His two loves were art and football. Only three months into school, he published his first illustration in the on-campus newspaper Yale Courant. On the gridiron he was a natural, demonstrating great strength and agility. Like Theodore Roosevelt, Remington also enjoyed boxing. A year later he met his future wife Eva Caten from Gloversville, New York. After the death of Remington’s father from tuberculosis on February 18, 1879, Eva rejected his first marriage proposal. Floundering, Remington headed to the American West to find himself—much like Theodore Roosevelt did when his mother and wife died on the same day. That led to a trip to Montana where he completed a number of sketches. Invigorated by his Western experiences, in February 1883 he headed to Kansas and with part of his inheritance bought a 160 acre sheep ranch near Peabody, Kansas. That failed adventure lasted about a year, and he then relocated to Kansas City, Missouri where Eva would join him as his wife. Yet he squandered the rest of his inheritance on a saloon there. After more illustrations were sold to Harper’s Weekly, in 1885 the Remingtons moved to New York City, and in 1886 he attended the Art Students League. By then Remington was earning $1,200 a year, twice the income of a school teacher. Other magazines such as St. Nicholas and Outing also published his art. His work certainly impressed a young Theodore Roosevelt who was chronicling his life in Medora—now in North Dakota—for a serial that ran in The Century Magazine. It was very common at the time for authors to serialize their works in magazines before they were published in book form. In the fall of 1887 Remington was commissioned to illustrate the magazine stories which ended up in Roosevelt’s 1888 classic book Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail. Early on, a lasting friendship between the two was cemented through these publications. By 1889 he had garnered national notoriety as one of the most accomplished illustrators in the country. He was a national celebrity. In 1889 his monumental canvas A Dash for the Timber was exhibited at the National Academy of Design. The New York Times reported, "The picture at the Autumn exhibition of the Academy of Design before which stands the largest number of people is Frederic Remington’s Dash for the Timber." A Silver medal for Last Lull in the Fight followed at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1891 the National Academy of Design elected Remington as an Associate member. Yet he was never admitted as National Academician, despite support from fellow artists Gilbert Gaul, Childe Hassam, and others. His financial success allowed the Remingtons to move into a grand home he named Ednion Algonquin for "a place where I live in New Rochelle, New York. A young Norman Rockwell would someday paint in his studio. Through his travels, Remington embraced social Darwinism survival of the fittest that championed the U.S. military’s domination of the inferior Native Americans. Theodore Roosevelt, George Armstrong Custer, and Remington along with most other Americans—idolized Charles Darwin. As early as 1888 Remington started contributing short stories along with illustrations to magazines. His writings teemed with romantic Western stories chalk full of drama and violence. Initially, they presented the cavalryman as the hero and the Indian as the villain, especially when the Indian had been tainted with the vices of the white man. His West was the "frontier model where the fittest were rugged ind

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Carl Von Hassler Fall Glow New Mexico Oil Painting

Lot # 543 (Sale Order: 543 of 1017)      

Title is Fall Glow. 24" by 28" unframed. 29" by 34" framed. Oil on Board. Carl Von Hassler (1887 - 1969) was active/lived in New York, New Mexico. Carl Hassler is known f...moreor Portrait-Indian, landscape, mural. Growing up in Bremen, Germany, Carl von Hassler always knew he wanted to be an artist. But parents often have different ideas, and at age 14, Carl found himself enrolled in the German Naval Academy. Fortunately, the Academy offered elective art courses and the aspiring young artist was delighted to realize that he could obey his father's wishes and learn to draw and paint at the same time. Von Hassler experienced another life-altering event two years later when he attended a performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. His father, a prominent businessman, had helped bring the temporarily bankrupt troupe to Bremen. "That's when I first decided to go to America," he recalled. That opportunity to go abroad finally arrived in 1912 after he finished his naval service and also completed six years at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. Von Hassler first settled in New York where he studied with members of the Ashcan Group. By 1917, as America prepared to enter World War I, several of the Ashcan painters were drawn to New Mexico, lured by the beauty of its landscape. Ironically, von Hassler heard a very different call. So great was he dedication to his new home that he joined the US Army in the fight against his homeland. In Germany, von Hassler's brother also signed up to fight, literally pitting the family against itelf. When the brother was killed in the War, von Hassler's mother disinherited him, and he decided never to return to Germany. After four years of service he was released from the US Army and, in 1922, von Hassler moved to New Mexico. Instead of following his New York acquaintances to Santa Fe, however, he settled in the up-and-coming town of Albuquerque. Von Hassler's enthusiasm for the Southwest and his fascination with his new surroundings fueled and renewed his artistic career. Ever the scholar, he threw himself into the exploration of the indigenous plants and animals—as well as people—of New Mexico. In his early years in the state, von Hassler made careful study of Navajo culture, spending many days at the trading post in Manuelito, talking with residents of the area and sketching their likenesses. He took up this self-appointed task with such dedication that he eventually became proficient in the Navajo language. The Indian Pueblos of New Mexico were another favorite subject for von Hassler, and he systematically sketched and painted each of the villages. In 1927, he used these studies as the basis for his first important commission: murals for the Pueblo/Deco style KiMo theater in Albuquerque. The ten-panel painting depicts the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola which the Conquistadores thought were "cities of gold" but turned out to be Native farming villages. The murals were restored in 1989 and still adorn the historic theater. As von Hassler's career in New Mexico advanced, he concentrated more and more on painting the landscape he had come to love. By the 1930s he was widely known for his ability to capture the moods of the land as it changed through the seasons. He did this with a carefully controlled palette consisting of a limited range of finely modulated color. But this technique was actually based in his knowledge of the natural world. His friends and students recalled that von Hassler was an expert on nature lore and could name almost any plant that grew in the state. In a 1961 newspaper interview, von Hassler talked about the importance of thoroughly knowing the landscape before an artist can paint it effectively. "Nature is a great teacher. To be a truly good artist, one has to be first a naturalist. Each area presents its own background and feeling. Arizona is quite different from New Mexico. Our state is very different from Colorado—and so it goes. Unless you get the feel of a place, your painting will lack strength and beauty." His goal was to evoke nature, not manipulate it, and he felt that it was not possible "to elaborate on nature with success. I want to place on canvas what I see in nature." Not only did Von Hassler study and enjoy his subjects, but he also enjoyed the very act of painting and reveled in the feel of various media. He was equally skilled with different kinds of paint, his favorites being oil, egg tempera, and watercolor. At the Academy in Dusseldorf he had studied the chemistry of paint, and throughout his career was known for experimenting with new materials to achieve exactly the colors and textures he wanted. Von Hassler once told a reporter that he had developed a technique for baking paint at up to 600 degrees so that it would take on a ceramic-like appearance and would be permanently colorfast. Since it was not possible to subject canvas to high temperatures, he also created what he called an "atomic substance" for use as the ground on which to paint. He

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Ralph Oberg The Alpine Bench Montana Painting

Lot # 544 (Sale Order: 544 of 1017)      

Title is The Alpine Bench above Lion Lake Montana. 11" by 14" unframed. 17 1/2" by 20 1/2" framed. Oil on Linen. Provenance: From the Collection of Ed Wolff Ralph Edward ...moreOberg (Born 1950) is active/lives in Colorado, Mississippi. Ralph Oberg is known for Landscape, wildlife and cowboy genre painting. The following is from the artist who was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, raised in Aurora, Colorado, and currently lives in Montrose, Colorado. He attended Colorado State University from 1968 to 1970, and from 1972 to 1973, the Seible School of Drafting in Denver, completing two diploma programs: "The wild mountain country has always been close to Ralph Oberg's heart. An avid mountaineer and wilderness backpacker, he has traveled extensively in the back country of the Western states in search of the pristine landscape and the wildlife that live there. His art career has always focused on his love for the untrammeled country. Raised in Colorado the young man always knew he would be an artist. The freedom to move about and enjoy the wonders of the world fit his temperament. After a brief stint in commercial illustration, Oberg began to support himself with his paintings. Wildlife dominated his interest for over 10 years. Repeated appearances at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson "Birds in Art" show in the early 80s' and election to the Society of Animal Artists were high points in his young career. The works of Rungius, Liljefors and Kuhnert inspired his development. Rungius's field sketches pointed out the need for on-the-spot references. So in 1987, Oberg changed horses in mid-stream. He began to study with some of the contemporary plein-air masters of today including Wolfe, Aspevig, Chmiel and Whitcomb. For the past decade he has focused on painting the landscape on location as a means of learning the colors and values of the world, and how to capture a sense of the moment and place. Recently, animal subjects have begun to reappear in Oberg's work, combining his natural drawing ability and accumulated knowledge of animals with a more impressionistic painting technique. Today Ralph and his wife, painter Shirley Novak, sketch the beauty they find near and far and then develop their larger works in their studio and home in Southwest Colorado. Oberg is a Signature Member of the Plein Air Painters of America. Oberg received the Weiss Award at the 1988 Buffalo Bill Show in Cody with the work included in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center's permanent collection. Another large landscape hangs permanently in the House Chambers of the Colorado State Capitol building. In addition his works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the LA County Natural History Museum, the Loveland Museum, and the International Center for Wildlife Art in Britain. Feature articles on Oberg's work have appeared in ART OF THE WEST, SOUTHWEST ART, AND WILDLIFE ART NEWS.

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Walt Gonske Morning in Taos Oil Painting

Lot # 545 (Sale Order: 545 of 1017)      

Title is Morning in Taos. 24" by 20" unframed. 26 1/2" by 30 1/2" framed. Oil on Canvas. Provenance: Private Collection New Mexico. Santa Fe Art Auction, November 2023, L...moreot 163 (label verso). From a Private Collection Walt (Walter) Gonske (Born 1942) is active/lives in New Mexico, New York, New Jersey. Walt Walter Gonske is known for Landscape and still life painting, illustration. Walt Gonske was born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating from the Newark School of Fine Arts, he studied with the famous illustrator, Frank Reilly, and at the Art Students League in New York. He was a successful commercial illustrator before deciding to move to Taos, New Mexico, in 1972, to pursue a career in fine art. Gonske began his work in fine art by painting watercolors from photographs. Though he still works with watercolor from time to time, the intensity of color and light in New Mexico has led him to shift to oils and to working outdoors. Gonske's plein-air paintings are a direct result of his emotional response to his subject. His technique is direct and bold, resulting in a dynamic, brilliant composition infused with intense color and light. Gonske interprets nature through his paintings; he does not attempt to reproduce it. Gonske has no favorite colors. He uses them all to capture the sky, trees and streams as they exist in our most vivid memories. His landscapes are not limited to the environs of Taos. Gonske has painted the magnificent scenery, market scenes and churches of Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Guatemala and China. Gonske has received numerous awards for his paintings, including first prize from the Southwestern Watercolor Society, the gold and silver medals for oil painting from the National Academy of Western Art, and the bronze medal for drawing from that organization. His paintings are included in museums around the country, including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. Source: Nedra Matteucci Galleries, representing Walt Gonske

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Charles Paul Gruppe Autumn Pasture Painting

Lot # 546 (Sale Order: 546 of 1017)      

Title is Autumn Pasture. 9 1/2" by 14" unframed. 17" by 21" framed. Oil on Canvas. Charles Paul Gruppe (1860 - 1940) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York / Netherl...moreands, Canada. Charles Gruppe is known for Marine, landscape, and genre painting. Landscape and marine painter Charles Paul Gruppe was born in Picton, Canada, September 3, 1860. Largely self-taught, Gruppe did study in Holland and a good portion of his work consists of Holland inspired scenes. He should not be confused with his son, artist Emile Gruppe, who painted many well-known New England scenes. When Gruppe was ten, he moved with his family to Rochester, New York, after the death of his father. Interested in painting from an early age, he spent much of his time sketching and creating watercolors and oils. To help support his mother and sisters, he worked in a sign-painting shop, soon mastering the craft. Eventually, at age twenty-one, he had earned enough money to travel steerage to Europe, where he traveled through France, Germany, and Holland, searching for a place to settle and practice his art. He was taken with Holland, perhaps attracted to its fishing villages with their picturesque boats and quaint houses, and decided to stay. He built a home and studio in the little fishing village of Katwyk Ann Zee and painted much of his European work in the vicinity of that town. While in Holland, his skill at subtle coloration and careful draftsmanship became so identified with the Dutch School of painting that he was elected to the exclusive Pulchre Studio in the in the Hague, something highly unique for an American. Members of the Dutch Royal Family collected his work, which included portraits of the Dutch people as well as genre, marine, and countryside scenes. Many of his paintings are of the Zuider Zee and of Sheveningen, where he had a vacation villa. Charles Gruppe's work, This Painting, (ca 1903), which depicts a sailboat tied to a quay in icy waters, is one example of the silver gray tonalist paintings in which he specialized when he was in Holland. Altogether, Gruppe spent over twenty years in Holland, becoming a celebrity artist and ultimately being patronized by the royalty of Europe. His work is represented in many museums in America and Europe. Gruppe returned to America, becoming both a painter and dealer/broker in the art of Dutch painters, and popularizing Dutch art among American collectors and art connoisseurs. His son, Emile, who was to also become a well-known painter, was born at the family residence in Rochester in 1896. Soon thereafter the Gruppes moved back to Katwyk Ann/Zee, Holland, but in 1909, the family returned to the United States as the clouds of World War I gathered. Although their ancestry was originally in the Hamburg area of Germany, they at this time added an accent to 'e' of the Gruppe name to make it appear less German. The elder Gruppe, Charles, found an apartment/studio at Carnegie Hall in New York City. His son Emile also wanted to paint, and, in addition to teaching him himself, Charles sent him to the best teachers, including Frederic Bridgman for figures and drawing, Emil Carlson for landscapes and values; and Charles Hawthorne, for figures and color. Charles Gruppe had been an essentially self-taught artist but determined that his son would have the best teachers. In 1925, after seeing an exhibition in New York that featured the beautiful winter harbor scenes of Gloucester by Frederick Mulhaupt, the Gruppe father and son team headed to Cape Ann, to see for themselves. "Mulhaupt got the smell of Gloucester on canvas", Emile had said. Father and son were already fond of seacoasts and seaports, and both Gruppes soon fell in love with Cape Ann. They both continued to paint in the Cape Ann area for the rest of their lives. The elder Charles P. Gruppe died at age 80 in Rockport, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1940 at his studio where he had been established during the summers for 15 years. The remainder of each of those years, he had spent in New York City, where he was an active member of the Salmagundi Club. Until 1929, the two Gruppes, father and son, shared a studio on Bearskin Neck in Rockport. Then Emile decided make his own fortune and moved to nearby Gloucester where he purchased an old school house on Rocky Neck. Despite his stern look, Charles Gruppe was said to have a sunny and optimistic disposition. He had little formal education and no visible advantages in his early youth. All he did have was a strong love of painting which seemed inborn to him, as it was to generations of his family. He painted thousands of paintings in his life that are in the finest collections of Europe and America. All four of his children were exposed to art and artists at tender ages, and eventually all established themselves in the arts: sculptor, Karl, was a member of the National Academy; musician, Paulo, is a cellist. Virginia was a watercolorist/art dealer who painted Rockport and Gloucester scenes and owne

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John Pototschnik Boats of Cascais Painting

Lot # 547 (Sale Order: 547 of 1017)      

Title is Boats of Cascais. 7" by 11" unframed. 11" by 15" framed. Oil on Board. John Pototschnik (Born 1946) is active/lives in Texas. John Pototschnik is known for Lands...morecape, structures, and figure painting. orn in Cornwall, England to a British war bride, who brought her oldest son to America on the Queen Mary when her husband was discharged from the army, John Pototschnik was raised in Pittsburgh, Kansas. As a youth, he expressed little interest in art. However, in junior college, at the urging of a counselor, he began working with his hands---painting, drawing, metal smithing and woodworking. He says: "I discovered I really liked to draw." He enrolled in Wichita State University with a major in advertising design. However, his education was interrupted by four years, 1968 to 1972, of commitment from ROTC to military service with the Air Force during the Vietnam War. Because he was not sent overseas, he took classes at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, and from this experience became serious about an art career. He determined to become an illustrator, and he and his wife moved to Texas, following his parents who were in Dallas. In the 1980s, established in commercial art, he took increasing interest in fine art painting, especially work by western painters Ken Riley and Howard Terpning who, like himself, had begun as illustrators. Pototschnik began painting as a result of a commission with an oil company to do wildlife work, which became a limited edition of prints. In 1982, he dropped his illustration career to become a full-time painter. Signature subjects are rural and small-town America scenes as well as scenes of Europe.

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Hella Broeske Shattuck Isleta Woman Painting

Lot # 548 (Sale Order: 548 of 1017)      

Title is Portrait of Isleta Pueblo Indian Woman New Mexico. 3 1/2" by 3 1/2" unframed. 6" by 6" framed. Oil on Board. Hella Broeske Shattuck (1906 - 1994) was active/live...mored in New Mexico, South Dakota. Hella Shattuck is known for Landscape, pueblo figure and genre painting. During Hella Broeske Shattuck's 50-year artistic career in New Mexico she was widely admired and honored for her interpretations of Native American, Hispanic, and New Mexican society and culture. As part of Mabel Dodge Luhan's artistic circle, Shattuck's work represents the style characteristic of that period landscapes celebrating the luminescent light and color of the region as well as intimate depictions of local customs, festivals and landmarks. Shattuck's love and admiration for the people and landscape of Northern New Mexico is evident throughout her work. Shattuck was born in Frederick, South Dakota on July 4, 1906. Her parents were both Finnish immigrants and her father, Rev. Peter Keranen, served as a pastor in the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church. Her father changed parishes often, moving the family from South Dakota to Wisconsin, Minnesota and Oregon. Always a talented artist, Shattuck's musical abilities were encouraged by her father and she eventually became a classically trained concert pianist. While pursuing her musical talents, Shattuck also held a passion for painting a talent not encouraged by her family, but one to which she would remain deeply committed throughout her life. Shattuck began her artistic training in Minneapolis and continued her studies under Clyde Leon Keller when the family moved to Portland, Oregon. After marrying Fritz Broeske in Portland in 1934, the couple drove to Santa Fe, NM by motorcycle and decided to remain. Once in Santa Fe, she quickly became involved in the art scene and took this opportunity to study painting with several local artists, primarily Odon Hullenkremer. Together, they were asked to create the illustrations for the book, The History of New Mexico, written by George Hammond and Thomas Donnelly. In 1936, Shattuck participated in the invitational alcove show at the New Mexico Museum of Art. By 1938, her work was featured in a number of additional exhibitions and she was named "Future Artist of New Mexico." She would later be asked to paint several murals for the Franciscan Hotel in Albuquerque, NM. After her divorce in 1946, Shattuck moved frequently throughout New Mexico - taking every opportunity to explore all that her home state had to offer. Fluent in Spanish, she took particular interest in the Hispanic communities of Northern New Mexico - relishing in their rich customs and traditions. Shattuck also displayed a strong connection for Native American subjects. During a sketching trip to the Isleta Pueblo, Shattuck became fascinated with the landscape and immediately sought permission to become an artist in residence at the Pueblo. Eventually, she would live for extended periods at both the Laguna and Isleta Pueblos. It was at the Isleta Pueblo in 1949 that she met her second husband, August Shattuck, a health educator and Isleta native. The Shattucks would later reside in Taos at the famed "Pink House," owned by Mabel Dodge Luhan. This move marked the richest and most productive period of her career. Shattuck was greatly influenced by the renowned artists in Luhan's circle and many of her works reflect the style of that period. Shattuck also took this opportunity in Taos to make frequent visits to the festivals at the Taos Pueblo, which she often depicted in her work. Since photography or painting was not allowed directly on the reservation, Shattuck did most of her work in the privacy of her home demonstrating her acute memory of specific details and events. Her canvases and ink sketches, therefore, faithfully capture the spirit of Indian rituals and dances. In 1962, Shattuck would help found the Taos Opera Guild and, for a time, was a Board member for the Santa Fe Opera. In 1975, she was appointed a member of the Bicentennial Commission of the State by Governor Bruce King. She received many awards from organizations such as the National League of Pen Women and is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in New Mexico, Two Thousand Women of Achievement and the National Social Register. Throughout her life, she received repeated invitations to art exhibitions in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Taos, Las Vegas, NM, Portland, OR, and New York City. Hella's earliest canvases and sketches were signed "Hella Keranen" or "Hella Broeske." After her marriage with Broeske ended, she most frequently signed her work simply as "Hella," but larger works often bear her full signature, "Hella Broeske Shattuck". Her works have been included in the collections of the New Mexico State Museum, The Finnish-American Heritage Center at Finlandia University, Mary Washington College, and numerous private collections throughout the United States and abroad. Shattuck and her husband eventually settl

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Dick Heichberger Camp in the Bitterroots Painting

Lot # 549 (Sale Order: 549 of 1017)      

Title is Camp in the Bitterroots. 20" by 27" unframed. 23" by 29" framed. Watercolor on paper. Dick Heichberger (Born 1945) is active/lives in California, Arizona. Dick H...moreeichberger is known for Landscape, wildlife. Dick Heichberger was born in Eden, New York. While in elementary school, he attended an Andrew Wyeth exhibit at the Buffalo Museum of Fine Art, where he became interested in art. During his formative years, Heichberger developed his interest in the American Indian. He and his father hiked the eastern mountains in search of arrowheads and other artifacts of the Mohawk, Iroquois and Allegheny tribes that once had populated that area. After high school graduation, Heichberger attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Technical Institute. His art career was put on hold when he joined the Marine Corps in 1965. After receiving his discharge form the Corps, Heichberger settled in Orange County where he continued practicing his techniques while working full time. During this period he also attended and graduated from Santa Ana College with an associate degree in wildlife management. As a single parent, he imparted his love of the outdoors to his daughter. Heichberger spent a number of years living and working in Big Bear, CA. This area reminded him so much of the mountains of upstate New York. While pursuing his art career, he spent time teaching at a Junior college and working for Disney, Bear Animation, Warner Brothers and Landmark Entertainment. Most recently, he worked for Fox. Now Dick Heichberger is able to devote his full time to developing his art. His inspiration comes from the beauty of the landscapes and wildlife of the desert and canyons of Arizona and the mountains of California, Wyoming and Colorado. Dick has experienced the life he paints. In his work is found a unique harmony and a simplicity of subject matter. One is left with a feeling of peace and beauty.

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Frederick Denys Pronghorns Oil Painting

Lot # 550 (Sale Order: 550 of 1017)      

Title is Pronghorns. 21 1/2" by 15" framed. 11" by 17 1/2" unframed. Oil on Board. Provenance: From the Collection of Kathryn Lichfield Frederick Denys (Born 1946) is act...moreive/lives in Utah, Texas. Frederick Denys is known for Luminist landscape painting. A Western realist and modern luminist painter, Denys has been inspired by subjects from the West Coast to the East Coast, all over the western U.S, Europe and as far as Africa. He enjoys painting large-scale work. Born in Texas in 1946, he moved to Utah in 1948 and has lived in the Prove/Orem area. While attending Brigham Young University, he was inspired by artists of the Hudson River School. In the mid 1800s this American art movement included Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church and Thomas Moran. They created a romanticized style of landscape painting. The term "luminisim" came from this movement. It describes how light appears to radiate from a painting and Denys has adopted a luminist style for many of his landscapes. He paints in many styles ranging from traditional realism to plein air painting.

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