Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2018/ No.125 i Western Art Collector

That Day, an exhibition honoring and examining the photography of Laura Wilson, opens January 20 at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia. The work will span much of Wilson’s 37-year career including Plains Indian reservations, lavish cotillions, Hutterite communities and West Texas cattle ranches. Wilson, who first moved to Texas from New England in 1966, began taking pictures in 1979 when she was hired by renowned photographer Richard Avedon, who was moving from New York to the West and needed someone to set up his itineraries. She eventually spent six years working with Avedon on his In the American West, and during that time she grew a fondness for the West and its people. “I am drawn to people who live in an enclosed world—those people who live…

JANUARY Ending Jan. 2 MOUNTAIN TRAILS GALLERY Troy Collins Park City, UT – (430) 615-8748 www.mountaintrailsgalleries.com Jan. 3 DENVER ART MUSEUM Petrie Institute of Western American Art Symposium Denver, CO – (720) 913-0130 www.denverartmuseum.org Ending Jan. 5 MODERN WEST FINE ART Holiday Group Show Salt Lake City, UT – (801) 355-3383 www.modernwestfineart.com Ending Jan. 6 THE PLAINSMEN GALLERY Small Works & More Dunedin, FL – (888) 779-2240 www.plainsmen.com Jan. 6-21 NATIONAL WESTERN COMPLEX EXPO HALL 25th anniversary Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale Denver, CO – (303) 291-2567 www.coorswesternart.com Ending Jan. 7 WESTERN SPIRIT: SCOTTSDALE’S MUSEUM OF THE WEST The Scottsdale Craftsmen: A 70 Year Legacy Scottsdale, AZ – (480) 686-9539 www.scottsdalemuseumwest.org Ending Jan. 7 WESTERN SPIRIT: SCOTTSDALE’S MUSEUM OF THE WEST Marjorie Thomas: Arizona Art Pioneer Scottsdale, AZ –…

When the last cow comes in off the range, the glowing coals in the fire have flickered out and the spurs are hung up for the night—when it’s all said and done and history has passed into myth and then legend—the cowboy will remain one of America’s greatest and most endearing icons, a figure of inspiring resolve and thrilling adventure. Few artists have done more to preserve the enduring legend of the American cowboy than Joe Beeler, whose life and career will be celebrated in a new retrospective January 16 at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Art of Joe Beeler: A Western Original will feature dozens of works in many mediums—like Charlie Russell before him, Beeler worked in oil, watercolor, bronze and was a…

With the Grand Canyon and 31 state parks to its name, Arizona may be best known for its natural marvels, but the state is also home to hundreds of art galleries and museums. With no dearth of inspiration, it’s no wonder that artists Jeff Love, Darcie Peet, Fred Wackerle, Kim Seyesnem Obrzut, Risa Waldt and Jason Lohmeier all call the Grand Canyon State home. At the heart of Arizona’s art scene is Scottsdale, with features dozens of galleries including The Legacy Gallery, Trailside Galleries, Bischoff’s Gallery and Dennis June Gallery. The town boasts over 70 public works of art and its famed Old Town offers a weekly ArtWalk, an event organized by the Scottsdale Gallery Association taking place every Thursday night where galleries open their doors to visitors. The town…

For more than 20 years, the Santa Fe Art Auction has featured a carefully curated selection of paintings, works on paper and prints by the Taos Society of Artists, Santa Fe Art Colony and Los Cinco Pintores; important artworks by the Cowboy Artists of America; and exceptional offerings by contemporary masters. The Santa Fe Art Auction has proudly established market-setting results for works by Robert Henri, Ernest Blumenschein, Bert Geer Phillips, Willard Nash, Carl Rungius and Raymond Jonson, among many others. Upcoming auctions: Santa Fe Art Auction November 2018 Santa Fe, NM…

Altermann Galleries, established 1978 and specializing in American Western art and American art, conducts auctions throughout the year in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The auctions offer a wide variety of art from historical to contemporary. In 2017, Altermann sold more than 889 lots ranging in price from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. A couple of highlights in 2017 were Fritz Scholder’s Chief #1, which sold for $74,000, and T.C. Cannon’s Beef Issues at Fort Sill that sold for $180,000. Both auction results were world records for the artists. Upcoming auctions: January 18-19 Scottsdale, AZ…

The Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale will be celebrating a milestone achievement when it returns to Denver for its 25th annual exhibition featuring some of the most cutting-edge contemporary Western art in the country. Founded in 1993 by the joint inspiration of Coors Brewing Company and the National Western Stock Show, the art exhibit and sale is widely recognized as a signature event in the Western art market, one that is geared toward more contemporary artists and artwork. The event will open January 3 with the Red Carpet Gala Reception, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the National Western Complex in Denver. Complementing the show, and part of the Winterwest series of events linked to the Coors show, is the 12th annual Petrie Institute of Western American Art Symposium…

“Flabbergasted,” was one of the first words out of Martin Grelle’s mouth after the close of his historic solo show November 11 at the Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was a sentiment likely shared by all in attendance. Grelle had been preparing for more than a year for the solo show, and had produced 20 new works—it’s rare to see more than three new Grelle paintings in a room together—for Legacy’s Scottsdale location, which had hosted a similar show for John Coleman almost a year prior. Coleman’s show also sold out and generated more than $1.6 million in sales, and based on Grelle’s high demand and the rarity of his solo shows, collectors were expecting a repeat of the Coleman show. When it was all said and done, the…

At the Altermann Galleries & Auctioneers Scottsdale Auction, collectors will be treated to a robust offering of both contemporary and traditional Western art, along with Native American pottery, rugs and more. The approximately 500-lot sale, held at Venue 8600 in Scottsdale, Arizona, takes place over two sessions on January 18—10 a.m. and 1 p.m.—and a third session on January 19. This marks the first time the auction house has held a sale in January in Scottsdale, which is a high season for arts and tourism in Arizona. One of the standout paintings coming to the market during the sale is Nicolai Fechin’s Arroyo Seco, which has an estimate of $200,000 to $300,000. This landscape, measuring 18 by 28 inches, was included in the artist’s retrospective exhibition at the National Cowboy…

Western art tends to glorify cowboys to such a degree that it’s easy to forget that being a cowboy is not all that different from a welder, butcher, mechanic, truck driver or carpenter—it’s a job meant to put food on the table, clothes on the youngsters’ backs and keep the heat on during the winter. Like most blue-collar jobs, cowboying can be grueling work with long hours, strenuous physical demands and it requires a challenging set of skills, not to mention a strong love of the outdoors and horses. Cowboys don’t do it to get rich. And they certainly don’t rise before the sun in blistering heat or frigid cold to fight with Mother Nature for eventual fame. They do it because it’s a job, and they’re good at it.…

Masters of the American West challenges such artists as George Carlson, Z.S. Liang, Kyle Polzin, Thomas Quinn, Mian Situ, Tucker Smith, Curt Walters, Morgan Weistling and others to exhibit their very best work. Featuring paintings and sculptures by 69 top artists, Masters includes landscapes, seascapes, wildlife, historical themes and other subjects inspired by the American West. Upcoming auctions: Masters of the American West February 10-March 25 Los Angeles, CA…

Join the C.M. Russell Museum to celebrate the 50th Russell Auction to benefit the museum. The Russell is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious and fun Western art events in the country. It is set to impress once again, offering competitive bidding for significant works by highly acclaimed historic and contemporary artists. Visitors can come experience the grandeur 50 years in the making and embrace this three-day journey discovering the spirit of the American West. Upcoming auctions: The Russell: An Exhibition & Sale to Benefit the C.M. Russell Museum March 15-17 Great Falls, MT…

As one of the fastestgrowing categories at Heritage Auctions, Western and California art has seen sales more than triple in recent years under the direction of Alissa Ford, Director of California Art, in San Francisco. Recent highlights include the famous Creek at Twilight, 1927, by Birger Sandzén, sold in 2017 for $516,500; A Ride in Autumn by Walter Ufer sold in late 2016 for $175,000; and The Pottery Connoisseur, circa 1930, by Eanger Irving Couse, sold May 2017 for $80,000. Additional notable highlights include Alexandre Hogue’s Glen Rose, 1926—a tour de force by the Texas artist—sold in November 2017 for $78,125; Western art also claimed top-lot honors last year as Taos Indians, 1932, by Joseph Henry Sharp sold for $40,625. Visit the auction house’s website to learn how they serve more…

Manitou Galleries of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction from Hayden, Idaho, have announced their 31st annual March in Montana Dealer Show and Auction to be held March 15 through 17. The three-day boutique dealer show and two-day auction will be held in conjunction with a number of other events during Russell Week in Great Falls. All events are free and open to the public and will take place at the Elks Lodge #24. An important segment of the sale will consist of items from the Dr. Delwin and Karen Bokelman collection, most of which are pictured in their photo essay book Precious Dreams. Collected over the course of more than three decades, the collection includes artwork and sculpture by current and past…

2018 marks the 46th anniversary of the annual National Fine Art Show Auction in Ellensburg, Washington, presenting the best art in the West by the best artists in the West. The doors open at 10 a.m. Friday, May 18, with a three-day schedule that includes a quick draw with auction, art demonstrations with auction and the Saturday auction of 70 pieces of original artworks. The association continues to follow their mission to preserve and promote Western heritage through art. Approximately 50 artists will be displaying and selling their art in the exhibit halls of the Kittitas Valley Event Center. Styles vary from realism to impressionism, depicting the West from Old West to contemporary West. Well-known Oregon artist Sandra Haynes has been selected as the 2018 Feature Artist. Living Wild is…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 12 works Jan. 19-Feb. 16, 2018 Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery 6872 E. Sunrise Drive, Suite 130 Tucson, AZ 85750 (520) 722-7798 www.medicinemangallery.com ED MELL In the 1970s, Phoenix-born painter Ed Mell was living in New York City and working as an illustrator at prominent Manhattanbased ad agencies. He returned to Arizona to teach on the Hopi reservation for two summers, and something clicked. “When you go from New York City to Hotevilla on Third Mesa, it was such an amazing shift—a great change. Everything about it was just really wonderful. The people, the land,” he says. “I started thinking that maybe it’s time I move back West. When I did finally move back I could feel the wheels rolling, especially as I started seeing things again…

On Thursday, January 4, the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum will host its 12th annual symposium. Titled Beyond America’s Heartland: Regionalism and the Art of the American West, the event will bring together four scholars who will each present a unique aspect of regionalism and modernism in the 1920s and 30s, and will be moderated by Patricia Limerick, faculty director and chair of the board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Erika Doss, professor of American Studies at Notre Dame, will present an overview of regionalist art to start the morning. Doss will consider how the Midwestern scenes of Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood, who focused on local landscapes and traditions in their…

It’s a sad day when any museum closes, but that heartbreaking event for museum patrons can be a windfall for art collectors who suddenly might have a chance to acquire museum-quality work long removed from the art market. Collectors will have just such a chance when the Leanin’ Tree Museum collection is offered by the Scottsdale Art Auction January 19 and 20 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The museum’s collection, put together by Leanin’ Tree founder Ed Trumble, was last seen by the public on Labor Day, the last public exhibition day for the now-shuttered museum that opened in 1974 as part of the Leanin’ Tree greeting card company. The card company, which preceded the museum by 25 years, will continue operating as usual. In March, the then-92-year-old Trumble sent a letter…

No one really remembers how it happened anymore. Its origins have faded into myth. It started with a small party with the artists and their wives in the fall of 1996, and someone suggested a trip to the east side of the city, to the Old West attraction Trail Dust Town. Tucked back amid the gunslinger stunt shows, the shooting gallery and miniature locomotive was an old-time Western photo booth. After a change into costume, a visit to the prop department and some light makeup—glue-on mustaches mostly—the men stood in front of the camera and posed. And then a barely audible click. There would be other photos of the Tucson 7, but none as iconic. Howard Terpning is in the center in a Mexicanstyle poncho and sombrero. He’s holding a…

Nestled on a slope in the Appalachian Mountains is a three-level post and beam cabin that reflects the simplicity of the region and the deep love of art by all six members of a family of artists. They call it “the studio.” He grew up in the Midwest and wanted a simple post and beam barn when they settled on the Appalachians for their home and the studio. “There is no drywall,” he explains, “and it has heart pine floors cut from old beams. The ceiling of one level is the floor of the one above.” When I asked him if the beams and columns ever made a cracking sound, he told me about a workman who was alone in the house when a beam checked. “He thought he’d been…

contactus@oldwestevents.com • www.oldwestevents.com Old West Events is celebrating the 28th annual Old West Show & Auction in Mesa, Arizona, January 20 and 21. More than 175 vendors in authentic Western art, antiques and design will be featured at the weekend dealer show and sale; and over 300 lots of fine Western art and artifacts will cross the block at the live, Saturday night auction. Artists of note at auction include Edward Borein, Wilson Hurley, William Gollings, Harry Jackson, John Moyers, Terri Kelly Moyers and many more. The summer Old West Show & Auction is relocating this year. After three years in Fort Worth, Texas, the 29th Old West Show & Auction will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event is returning to its traditional dates as well (the fourth…

Trailside Galleries and the Gerald Peters Gallery are pleased to announce the 12th annual Jackson Hole Art Auction, scheduled for September 14 and 15 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Since 2007, the Jackson Hole Art Auction has been recognized as one of the premier wildlife and Western art events in the country, defined by the high standard of works offered by both contemporary artists and deceased masters. A signature event of Jackson Hole’s annual Fall Arts Festival, the JHAA attracts collectors from across the country as well as abroad. For information, visit www.jacksonholeartauction.com or call (866) 549-9278. Upcoming auctions: Jackson Hole Art Auction September 14-15 Jackson Hole, WY…

Celebrating its 32nd anniversary, Trappings of Texas is the longestrunning exhibit and sale featuring contemporary Western art alongside custom cowboy gear in the country. Trappings of Texas is recognized for its commitment to the best in Western art by showcasing works by up-and-coming artists with established artists who are members of the Cowboy Artists of America and Traditional Cowboy Artists Association. Trappings of Texas is pleased to announce that Chessney Sevier of Buffalo, Wyoming, is the 2018 Trappings of Texas Premier Artist. Visit the museum’s website to learn more about the opening weekend events, parties, show and sale from April 12 through 14. There you will find the schedule of activities, sponsorship information and how to purchase tickets. Upcoming auctions: Trappings of Texas: Contemporary Western Art & Custom Cowboy Gear…

UPCOMING SHOW Up to 20 works January 10-14, 2018 Maxwell Alexander Gallery 406 W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90015, (310) 839-9242 www.maxwellalexandergallery.com Each January the LA Art Show takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, bringing together some of the leading art dealers from around the world. Maxwell Alexander Gallery will be one of the participants in this year’s event and will feature some of its best-selling artists. Gallery director Beau Alexander says, “LA Art Show is the premier art event in Los Angeles. With over 75,000 visitors each year, it is something to not be missed.” Having just moved to a new location on West Pico Boulevard in the California metropolis, Alexander says they are looking forward to having the show so close to their stomping grounds.…

The Cowboy Artists of America, now in its 53rd year, will host the West Texas Art Workshop, a four-day program geared for artists of all calibers, on April 11 through 14 in Texas. The CA has long held workshops open to the public, including at the Scottsdale Artists’ School in Scottsdale, Arizona, but this year’s classes will take place in Fort Davis, Texas, and will precede the annual CA trail ride by a week, which means that guests will get as close as possible to the famous cowboy art group without actually being in the exclusive group. Artists will be on hand to offer demonstrations, class instruction, plein air painting, sessions with live models and critiques of completed works—all of it with the backdrop of West Texas, where the CA…

Each January, collectors and enthusiasts of Western art are treated to an assortment of quality artwork and objects at the annual Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction. As they explore the more than 180 dealer booths, and attend the live auction of over 300 lots, they will find contemporary and historic paintings, sculpture, saddles, spurs and more. The show returns to the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona, January 20 and 21. Doors will be open the first day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the second day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The auction happens January 20 at 5 p.m. at the Phoenix Marriott Mesa, which is adjacent to the convention center. On the showroom floor will be dealers such as Nadine Levin Photography, Danny &…

Two American art auctions in New York City have continuously brought bidders to modern and impressionist works, Ashcan paintings, American illustration, and early American sculpture. But Sotheby’s and Christie’s fall American art sales, held every November, have also been bringing bidders Western artwork with consistently high results. That trend continued in November when both sales returned with notable works made in or inspired by the West. On November 13, Sotheby’s American art sale racked up $19.4 million in sales, with top Western lots that included Marsden Hartley’s New Mexico Recollections (est. $700/1,000,000) that sold for $615,000, Ernest L. Blumenschein’s Eagle Nest Lake (est. $300/500,000) that sold for $471,000, Alfred Jacob Miller’s Hunting Elk by Moonlight (est. $150/250,000) that sold for $200,000, and Thomas Moran’s A Sand Storm, Acoma, New Mexico…