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LAURA GILPIN (1891-1979), “a Navajo silversmith at work in 1934, vintage warm-toned silver print, signed and dated Laura Gilpin 1924 lower right on the mount, titled, signed, annotated on the verso, custom framed to museum standards. As one of the few significant women landscape photographers in the history of American photography, Gilpin photographed the American southwest for more than sixty years, creating an extraordinary document of the land and its people... Her most successful, rewarding and historically important work was her documentation of the Navajo people, which culminated after more than thirty years of work on the reservation in her highly successful and critically acclaimed book, “The Enduring Navajo,” One of her most famous portraits, the sitter despite his threadbare clothes, conveys a serene confidence and nobility.
With gratitude to Liz Kay for her writing and scholarship, *”Laura Gilpin Masterworks,” Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, ‘07 SOLD
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ALFRED JAMES WANDS (1904-1998) “Early Spring, Near Taos,” a rare early modernist landscape dating from the artist’s summer work in Taos in the30’s, oil on canvas 30”x36”, signed Wands lower left, exhibited Cleveland Art Museum 1942 and bearing that institution’s exhibition label including the artist’s title, on the reverse.
Wands’ Modernist New Mexico subjects, which he produced during the eleven
year span 1930-1940, when he spent summers in Taos with his family, are
scarce and desirable. Distinguished by a strong stylistic vernacular equally
regionalist and modernist in character, they will remain his enduring artistic
legacy, despite his formulaic later work, the Rocky Mountain scenics which
he produced for sale to tourists in Estes Park, in the forties, fifties and sixties. The present example is distinguished by an energized, fan-like composition emanating from lower mid-left. The reductive ,simplified geometry of the land forms, and buildings coupled with blocks of color recalls Higgins. Wands had the good fortune to associate, study with and paint alongside some of the most important Northern New Mexico artists of the day, including Higgins and Ernest Blumenschein.
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Wands studied art at the Cleveland Art
Institute, from which he graduated with honors. He subsequently spent six
months in Paris studying at the Academie Julian, and also studied in Brussels,
Munich, and at Western Reserve University. He returned to Ohio to teach, both at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. And, during that time had numerous works accepted into the Carnegie Institute’s international exhibitions. In 1930 Wands moved to Denver to direct the art program at Colorado Women's College, from which he resigned in 1947. Wands served three times as the President of the Denver Artists Guild and was the chairman of the Denver Art Commission for sixteen years. SOLD
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EDWIN WILLARD DEMING (1860-1942) Untitled plains indian woman watering
horses at dusk, oil on panel 8”x10”. inscribed “to my dear friend McClintock,
Deming,” lower right.
“McClintock,” - Walter McClintock, died 1949, was a noted ethnologist, writer and
western explorer who spent years living with the Montana Blackfeet beginning in
1896, was adopted into the tribe, became fluent in their language and religion,
and became perhaps the leading non-Indian expert on the life, culture and spiritual
practices of the tribe. His authoritative book, “The Old North Trail, Life, Legends
and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians, “ was published in 1910
EDWIN WILLARD DEMING (1860-1942), Important and well-known painter of Indian and animal subjects in the west beginning in 1887, sculptor, muralist, illustrator, writer. Deming grew up with Indian playmates in western Illinois. He studied at the Art Student’s League, New York, until 1884, then in Paris for year at
the Academie Juilien. First western trip was in 1887, when he visited the
Apaches and Pueblo Indians in the southwest and the Umatillas in Oregon.
He exhibited his first Indian paintings in 1891. Deming’s murals of Indian
life are in the American Museum of Natural History, New York and the
Musuem of the American Indian. His paintings, Mourning Brave and
Buffalo Hunt are in the National Museum, Washington D.C. and his bronzes,
The Fight and Mutual Surprise are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York. Deming works are also held in the permanent collections of
the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX., the Brooklyn Museum, the
Explorers Club, National Arts Club, the John Herron Institute, Indiana,
the Milwaukee Art Institute and many others. SOLD |
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FRANCIS DREXEL SMITH (1874 Chicago, Il - 1956 Colorado Springs CO), early sketch of the Broadmoor hotel from Cheyenne Mountain, oil on stretched canvas 10”x14”, signed lower left; remnant of an old exhibition sticker on the verso.
Smith Came to Colo. Springs in 1901. Studied Art Inst. of Chicago with John Vanderpoel; Broadmoor Art Academy with John Carlson, 1920-22. Actively promoted Broadmoor Art Academy, served on committees in early years; trustee 1925-390 (President of the Board 1927-30, Art Advisor 1931. Member: Professional Members of the BAA beginning 1922. Exhibitions, BAAl 1920-23, 29-30,32,34; Denver Art Assoc. 1920; Denver Artists Society, 1924; Denver Art Museum 1926-28, 36,39. National Academy of Design, 1922;
Seattle Art Museum 1922,29 (prize); Carnegie Institute 1923.29; Kansas City Art Inst., 1924 (prize); Art Inst. of Chicago, 1931; Mississippi Art Assoc, 1932 (prize), Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1938; New Orleans Art Assoc., 1940 (medal), Artists West of
the Mississippi, 1941-45. Work in the permanent collections of: The Art Inst. of Chicago,
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, Dubuque Museum of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art,
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the John H. Vanderpoel Art Assoc. biographical courtesy of Pikes Peak Vision, The Broadmoor Art Academy by
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ASA “ACE” POWELL (1912-1978), Untitled Blackfeet encampment at twilight,
oil on canvas 5”x7”, monogrammed lower left.
Ace Powell is the direct successor to the Charlie Russell/O.C. Seltzer tradition
of Montana western painting. The son of a cowboy and stable boss, guide and packer in Glacier National Park, he was raised on the south end of Lake McDonald, and was
a working wrangler by the age of ten. He went to high school in Browning, MT., location
of the Blackfeet Reservation, and attended Montana State University in Bozeman and also worked as a cowboy breaking and wrangling horses. As a boy, he spent many hours watching Charlie Russell painting in the Bull’s Head Lodge on Lake Mcdonald.
In 1938, after a few private art lessons, he became a self-taught artist sketching and
painting what he knew best - the cowboy and the indian and early genre of northwest
Montana. He was an important catalyst in the development of the western art community in Kalispell and the Flathead Valley. SOLD |
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CHARLES CRAIG, Pikes Peak Indian Painter (1849-1931) “Indians on the Trail,”
Oil on canvas 18 1/2x26,” signed Charles Craig lower right, ca. 1895, ex-Kennedy
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FRANK JOSEPH VAVRA, died 1967, highly sought-after Colorado impressionist, an important large view of Long’s Peak from Chasm Lake, oil on canvas 27”x44” sight, signed lower right, ca. 1930; the largest Vavra canvas we’ve ever encountered or handled. SOLD |
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DAVID FREDENTHAL (1914-1958), A rare early modernist Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center picture, untitled view of the Colorado Springs front range,watercolor on paper 7”x10” sight, signed David Fred Fredenthal’ lower left, circa 1938. This example displays a strong stylistic similarity to Fredenthal’s “On the Road to Pikes Peak,” a watercolor published as plate 85 in “Pikes Peak Vision, the BroadmoorArt Academy,” by Cuba and Cunningham. Fredenthal’s use of intersecting diagonals and planes points to the influence of senior American watercolorist John Marin. According to Lawerence A. Fleishman of Kennedy Galleries, “Fredenthal’s work expresses his excitement with life and living. His watercolors are filled with enough energy and power to explode the space which contains them, to fill the room and the viewer with color and illumination.”
David Fredenthal received a Museum of Modern Art scholarship to Italy in 1935, studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art with Zoltan Sepeshy on a scholarship from1935-38. Studied with Boardman Robinson at the Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center under a scholarship in1936, taught summers at the CSFAC, 1940-1941. Fredenthal received a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1938-39. He was an artist correspondent for Life Magazine in WWII. Painted murals at the Detroit Naval Academy, the New York Worlds Fair, 1939 and in US post offices in Caro and Manistique, MI. Exhibited NY World’s Fair, 1939, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1947, Detroit Institute of Art. Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia Univ. and Dartmouth College. Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Yale University, Cranbrook Academy, Milwaukee Art Institute, Cincinnati Art Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. SOLD |
 WILL FRATES (1896-1969), Untitled Northern New Mexico village scene with church and figures, oil on masonite 24”x30”, signed lower right, ca. 1940. Frates was active as an artist in the San Francisco Bay area from the 1920’s while maintaining a studio-home in Hawward, CA. Equally facile with oil, watercolor and pastel, he painted landscapes of the motherlode country and the Bay area. Member, Santa Cruz Art League, Society of Western Artists; exhibited California State Fair, Golden Gate International Exposition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. A published watercolor field sketch of Aroyo Seco New Mexico and a second, a variant pose of the present example, substantiate the fact that he painted in northern New Mexico. SOLD
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ALFRED JAMES WANDS (1904-1998) “Sunflowers,” a rare early modernist still life dating from the artist’s summer work in Taos in the mid 30’s, oil on canvas 30”x25”, signed Wands lower left, exhibited Denver Art Museum 40th Annual Exhibition, Chapell House, 1300 Logan Street, Denver, Colorado in 1934, and bearing that institution’s exhibition label with artist’s title verso. From a private collection in Montana, and in its original gilt frame.
Wands’ Modernist New Mexico subjects, which he produced during the eleven year span 1930-1940, when he spent summers in Taos with his family, are scarce and desirable. Distinguished by a strong stylistic vernacular equally regionalist and modernist in character, they will remain his enduring artistic legacy, despite his formulaic later work, the Rocky Mountain scenics which he produced in the thousands for sale to tourists in Estes Park, in the forties, fifties and sixties. The present example is distinguished by an energized, tension-filled composition and expressive palette and unusual perspective. Wands had the good fortune to associate with, study with and paint alongside some of the most important Northern New Mexico artists of the day, including Ernest Blumenschein.
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Wands studied art at the Cleveland Art Institute, from which he graduated with honors. He subsequently spent six months in Paris studying at the Academie Julian, and also studied in Brussels, Munich, and at Western Reserve University. He returned to Ohio to teach, both at the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. And, during that time had numerous works accepted into the Carnegie Institute’s international exhibitions. In 1930 Wands moved to Denver to direct the art program at Colorado Women's College, from which he resigned in 1947. Wands served three times as the President of the Denver Artists Guild and was the chairman of the Denver Art Commission for sixteen years. SOLD
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CHARLES PARTRIDGE ADAMS (1858-1942), Clearing Storm, Early Spring, Moraine Park, Estes Park, Colorado, oil on canvas 14”x20”, signed Charles Partridge Adams lower left, original frame, ca. 1895, ex a Loveland, Colorado private collection. SOLD |
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ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAHAM, (1873-1946) ,
Untitled Colorado autumnal view, oil on canvas 16"x20", signed Robert Alexander Graham lower right, ca. 1925 SOLD
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HANS KLEIBER (1887-1967), a lovely and spontaneous untitled Wyoming mountain landscape, oil on board 8” x 9,”, signed lower right 1931 SOLD |
 ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAHAM ., (1873-1946), Untitled Colorado fall scenic with stream, oil on canvas 16" x 20", signed Robt. A. Graham: lower right, ca. 1925 SOLD
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  HELEN HENDERSON CHAIN died 1892, a rare and important pair of oval miniature oil paintings on ebonized panels, Colorado scenics, from the 1870’s; “The Royal Gorge,” signed lower right Chain, 1878, and untitled mountain lake scene, signed lower right 1877, images approximately 6” x 4 1/2”, panels 10 1/2” by 5 1/2”. SOLD |
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 FRANK J. VAVRA (1898-1967)
Untitled plein air view, probably of the North Fork Of the South Platte River near Insmont, Colorado, oil on canvas over board, 16”x16”, signed lower left, ca. 1931 SOLD
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 WALTER SHIRLAW, N.A., (1838-1909), “Omaha Dance, Northern Cheyennes, Tongue River Agency, Montana, 1890 “ oil on mahogany panel 6”x10”, signed lower right,,
In 1890 Shirlaw traveled as a special agent for the U,S. government to Montana to prepare paintings and written reports on two Indian agencies, the Crow and Northern Cheyenne. His efforts were published in 1894 in the extensive document “Report on Indians Taxed and Indians Not Taxed.
Literature:
-Sandweiis, Martha A. “Print the Legend, Photography and the American West.”
-Saunders, Richard H. “:Collecting the West, the C.R. Smith Collection of Western American Art.”
-”The West Explored, the Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art.”
Exhibited:
-Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, 1988-89 SOLD
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 THADDEUS WELCH (1844-1919)
Untitled portrait of a plains Indian painted from life in the southwest in the late 19th century, oil on canvas 15” by 12”, signed upper right Thad Welch and dated 1899 SOLD
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 WARREN E ROLLINS (1861-1962), Untitled New Mexico village scene, with blanketed figures and adobe, oil on canvas 14” x 8 1/2”, signed W. E. Rollins lower right.
Rollins, “the dean of the Santa Fe art colony, trained at the San Francisco Art Association School of Design, leaving to satisfy his intense curiosity and interest in the American Indian. His wanderings led from California and Oregon to the Dakotas, then through New Mexico and Arizona. By 1893 Rollins was painting in Taos. About 1900 he was one of the first painters admitted to the ceremonies of the Hopi, Crow and Blackfeet, and had a studio near El Tovar at the Grand Canyon. Rollins eventually established a permanent home in Santa Fe, taught painting classes at the Palace of the Governors, and served as the first president of the Santa Fe Arts Club. Works held in the permanent Collections: Santa Fe Railway Corp., Museum Of New Mexico, Santa Fe, Huntington Gallery, Los Angeles, Harvey House, Gallup, New Mexico, Phoenix National Bank. SOLD
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BIRGER SANDZEN (1871-1954) “In the Heart of the Rockes, Estes Park, Colorado,” Oil on canvas 14x16”, signed lower left, titled verso and dated 1924 SOLD |
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 ROBERT WESLEY AMICK (1879-1970) untitled plein air Colorado landscape, high country range scene with distant foothills, oil on canvasboard 8 1/2” x 12 1/2” sight, signed lower left, circa 1940. this work is distinguished by an agitated surface and a thick, palette-knife technique.
Born in a log cabin in Canon City, Colorado, Amick grew up in the
Colorado cattle country during the 1880’s, when the scene around him included the cowboy, the prospector, Ute and Sioux indians, the homesteader - all of the elements of the westerner’s stage. Amick was educated in Canon City public schools and at Yale, where he earned a law degree while also taking art courses. After practicing law in Ohio for two years, he gave up law for art study with private teachers and at the Art Students League. Athough successful with commissions from Harper’s, Scribner’s, The American and other publications, Amick felt that his most rewarding paintings would be of the west he knew, the mountains, brilliant sun and vivid colors. His works are held in the Gilcrease Museum, the Canon City Art Museum, also in schools, public buildings and homes in that community, and in many private western collections throughout the country.
bio courtesy, Hal and Peggy Samuels, Artists of the American West.
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BIRGER SANDZEN (1871-1954) “Riverbank, Smoky River, Oil on board 12”x10”, signed lower right Birger Sandzen, Titled in pencil verso, 1929 SOLD
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 FRED SHANE, born 1906, “Chalk Cliffs, Mount Princeton (Colorado), View from the old Hotel Antero,” oil on board 8 1/2” by 11”,signed F. Shane ‘44 lower right, titled verso, in its originalartist- crafted picture frame Fred Shane, born Kansas City, Mo;; studied with Randalll Davey 1923,1924,also with Davey in Santa Fe, NM 1924; Broadmor Art Academy with Davey, 1925, 1926; study in Spain and France, 19228-29; friends with John Sloan, Robert Henri.; became as associate of Thomas Hart Benton after they met in ‘35m and, like Benton, focused his aesthetic attention on rural American, representing the ordinary citizen. Taught: University of Missouri, 1932,33, 34,36, and from ‘38 to ‘71, and was department chairman 1968-1967 and professor emeritus of Fine Art 1971. Exhibited New York Worlds Fair, 1939-1940, Associated American Artists, NY, ‘43 (one man), Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Penna. Academy of Fine Art, State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, 1982 (retropsective). Works held: Nelson-Atkins, Kansas City, St. Louis Art Museum, Museum of Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Missouri, IBM corporate coll. and many others. SOLD
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 CHARLES BUNNELL (1897-1968) United regionalist/modernist view of Pkes Peak from Colorado Springs, watercolor on paper 17” x 16”, signed and dated 1934 lower right. SOLD
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 ZOLA M. ZAUGG, died 1975,
Untitled autumnal view of Pikes Peak, oil on canvas over board 12”x16”, signed lower right 1932 SOLD
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEYERS
(1885-1948)
Untitled late
afternoon Taos landscape with mountains, sage, and
shadows,, oil on canvas 8”x10”, signed
lower right “Ralph Meyers 1916.”
Well-known early day Taos Indian trader,
forest ranger and painter, Meyers painted some remarkable
New Mexican genre and landscape paintings, and was, as
leon Gaspard called him, one of the finest colorists
of the period. Meyers grew up in Denver, where he appeared
to have been heavily influenced by a number of prominent
western artists and frontier personalities. After numerous
visits to the southwest he moved permanently to Taos
in 1909.and took a job as a fire guard on Taos land.
He forged enduring friendships with the indians, opened
a trading post in 1912, and had his first exhibition
at the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe in 1917 Meyers
was immortalized as the Indian trader Rodolfo Beyers
in Frank Wanters’ book
on early day Taos, “The Man Who Killed the Deer.” SOLD
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 ANNA ELEIZABETH KEENER (1895-1982),
Untitled New Mexico regionalist style landscape with figures, oil on board 24”x30”, signed Anna Keener lower left, circa 1935.
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 BIRGER
SANDZEN (1851-1954), Untitled
Moorise over
Coronado Heights, Lindsborg, Kansas, oil on canvas 18”x24”,
Signed lower right, ca. 1916-1918. SOLD
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BIRGER SANDZEN (1851-1954), Untitled Grahan County,
Kansas landscape and farm scene, oil on canvas 12”x18”,
signed
lower right Birger Sandzen, 1912
In 1906 Birger Sandzen’s
in-laws, the Leksells, purchased a 480
acre farm near present day Hill City
in Graham County, northwestern Kansas.
The Sandzens were frequent visitors and
occasionally stayed for some time. Wild
Horse Creek located near the farm became
a familiar subject for Sandzen’s
paintings and prints, he seriously considered
building a summer studio on the farm,
and he is known to have spent several
summers there and completed over 300
studies in and near the creek. On once
occasion, while describing the beauty
of the farm, he expressed the hope that
it never be sold. “it is a fine
piece of ground and we have plenty of
good cottonwood trees and the most beautiful
limestone in Kansas,” he said.
The Leksells left their farm home to
move to Lindsborg in the mid 20’s,
but the property stayed in the ownership
of Sandzen and his heirs for a long time
afterwards.Additional
provenance and documentation available. SOLD
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SHELDON PARSONS (1866-1943),
“ Rio de Santa Fe,” oil
on board 9”x12”, signed lower left,
titled signed verso of frame and board “Sheldon
Parsons Rio de Santa Fe, May, 1930.” An
early impressionist Santa Fe landscape painter,
Parsons studied at the National Academy with
William Merritt Chase, and was a successful portrait
painter of national celebrities in New York City
from 1895 to 1912. Parsons came to Santa Fe in
1913, and painted intimate , charming, happy
and serene scenes of town plazas, Indian villages,
desert and mountains which set the standard for
generations of artists who would later come to
Santa Fe. He was also one of the founders and
first director of the Museum of New Mexico.
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 LLOYD MOYLAN (1893-1963) untitled southwestern landscape, oil on board 12:x14”. SOLD
In all likelihood painted in New Mexico, this
oil sketch is distinguished by delicacy of color and choppy, agitated
brushwork resulting in a heavily impastoed surface. This
post-impressionist painting prefigures his regionalist modernist
Deco flavored New Mexico work done in the thirties.
Lloyd Moylan was an important early Broadmoor Art Academy student
and later instructor who went on to distinguish himself as a painter of
Indians and the southwest in Santa Fe, and served as curator of the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, the predecessor of the Wheelwright Museum. Studied, Minneapolis Art Institute, Art Students League and the Broadmoor Art Academy’ instructor, professional member and Vice President of the Broadmoor Art Acad., until 1931, then relocated to Santa Fe. Exhibited, Broadmoor Art Academy, Art Inst. of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, Penrose Public Library, Colorado Springs, Co. |
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 ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAHAM (1873-1946) "Clear Creek," oil on canvas 14"x14", signed Robert A Graham, 1921 lower left, titled old Salamagundi Club (New York) Auction Label,verso. SOLD |
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 CHARLES PARTRIDGE ADAMS (1858-1942)
“The Gore Range and Mount Powell, watercolor and pastel, 7” by 10,” signed lower left, 19th century. SOLD
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 CHARLES PARTRIDGE ADAMS (1858-1942)
Untitled view of the Teton Range near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, oil on canvas 18”x24”, signed lower left, Late 19th century. SOLD
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 FRANK J. VAVRA (1891-1967)
“View of Fairplay, Colorado and Mt. Silverheels,” oil on board 16”x20”, Signed lower right, titled verso, ca.1938 SOLD |
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 LESLIE JAMES SKELTON (1848-1929)
“Mt. Princeton from Buena Vista, Colorado,” oil on canvas 12”x18”, signed lower right, a rare 19th century view of this Arkansas R. headwaters town along the Collegiate Range.
Leslie J. Skelton sutdied Paris, c. 1885, exhibited Paris, London, New York and Montreal. Word in the National Gallery, Canada, Perkins Art Gallery, Colorado College, Montreal Art Association A highly popular late 19th/early 20th cent. Colorado painter; arranged the 1900 art exhib at the opening of the Colorado College Gallery; member, Broadmoor Art Academy. SOLD |
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CURTIS DELANO (1890-1972), “Lighting the Signal
Fire, Sioux,” oil on board 12”x16,”
title inscribed verso in the artists hand and also bearing
the legend “sketch by Gerard Curtis Delano, 31
East 18th Avenue, Denver, Colo.” From a Cripple
Creek, Colorado estate by descent, ca. 1935, in a custom
deco frame. SOLD
Delano was an important
traditional western painter known for his distinctive,
elegantly designed and high key figural paintings of
the American Indian, member Cowboy Artsists of America.
Born in Marion, Massachusetts, the son of a sea captain,
he began drawing Indians and horses by the age of four,
trained at the Swaine Free School of Design near his
home, and in 1910, became the pupil of George Bridgman
at the the Art Students League in New York. He later
attended the Grand Central School of Art where he worked
under such noted artists as N.C. Wyeth, Dean Cornwell
and Harvey Dunn, and afterwards was a successful commercial
artist and illustrator there until the outbreak of WW
I. He first came west, to the Blue River Valley of Colorado,
in 1919, worked as a cow hand and in 1920 homesteaded
and built a dirt-roofed studio. He commuted periodically
to New York for commercial art assignments, moved west
permanently to his homestead in the Rockies in 1933,
and after 1940 was enabled to work full time. Delano
works are held in significant private and public collections
including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Eiteljorg
Museum of American Indians And western Art, The Newark
Museum, The Woolaroc Museum, and The Sangre de Cristo
Arts Center.
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SANDZEN (1871-1954), “Lake Vanern, Coastal Study,
Lecko, Sweden,” Oil on canvas 12” x16”,
signed, dated 1924 lower right, titled on the reverse.
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JOSEPH VAVRA, American (1892-1967)
“A March Day, Looking from Wide Acres Toward Boulder,1928,”
oil on canvas 22’x29”, signed lower right
“Frank J. Vavra, Colo., 1927, title inscribed
by the artist, verso of stretcher; original whitewashed
gilt carved frame crafted by the artist.
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SANDZEN, Swedish-American , (1871-1954) untitled oil
on board 8"x10", singed Birger Sandzen lower
left center. Circa 1920. This painting is thought to
be a study for or a variant of plate 19, Lindquist,
"Cedars in the Foothills," a large oil in
the permanent coll. of the Sandzen Memorial Gallery
in Lindsborg, Kansas . SOLD
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GERARD CURTIS DELANO, Amer., Deceased
Navajos in the Canyon, oil on masonite 20"x24"
signed lower right.SOLD |
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early Colorado painting by Charlie Stobie.
SOLD
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MAE McAFEE (1897-1995) Untitled Winter Sunset Scene,
Taos, cica 1935, oil on board 6"x8", signed
lower left. SOLD |
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RALPH MEYERS (1885-1948), Plein
air landscape, painted near Taos, New Mexico,oil on
canvas over Board 10 X 13 inches, inscribed verso by
the artist n pencil:
"by Ralph Meyers, Winter of 1921, Early Spring of 1922"
Ralph Meyers was a well-known early
day Taos Indian trader, forest ranger and painter who,
without any training, did some remarkable New Mexican
genre and landscape paintings and was, as Leon Gaspard
called him, one of the finest colorists of the period.
Meyers grew up in Denver, where he was apparently heavily
influenced by a number of prominent Western artists
and frontier personalities, sufficiently ao, that after
numerous visits to the southwest soon after the turn
of the century, he moved to Taos in 1909 and took a
job as a fire guard on Taos land. He forged enduring
friendships with the Indians, and opened an Indan trading
post in 1912. His first exhibition was at the Museum
of New Mexico in Santa Fe in 1917. He was not a prolific
painter as the trading post was was his livelihood.
Meyers was immortalized as the Indian trader Rodolfo
Beyers in Frank Waters's wonderful Book on early day
Taos, "The Man Who Killed the Deer." SOLD
This information came principally from Dawdy, Doris
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BIRGER SANDZEN (1871-1954) Untitled
Manitou Springs, Colorado plein air sketch, oil on board
8"x10", Signed lower right, ca. 1923 SOLD
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JOSEPH VAVRA(1892-1967)
Untitled Fall Scene in the Mountains Near Baily, Colorado,
Oil on canvas laid down on board 11" x 13",
signed
Frank J. Vavra lower right, circa 1928. A very painterly
and
harmonious plein air sketch by this sought-after Colorado
impressionist. SOLD
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SVEN BIRGER SANDZEN
(1871-1954)
Untitled Swedish Coastal Scene, oil on
canvas 20" x24",
Singed lower left center, circa 1924, inscribed verso. SOLD
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BIRGER SANDZEN
Swedish-American (1871-1954) 24"
by 18"
Untitled Colorado mountain landscape, oil on canvas, signed
lower left, ca. 1922, in pristine condition and presented in a hand-carved
22k custom frame.
Highly important modernist/colorist trained
in Sweden and France, often regarded as the American Van Gogh because
of his intense expressive colorism, muscular line and thick, prismatic
paint application. Well-known for his highly original Rocky Mountain
and Kansas prairie landscapes. Sandzen's work has appeared in over
600 domestic and international exhibitions, and the list of public
institutions holding his work worldwide is very impressive. SOLD
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BIRGER SANDZEN (1871-1954)
20" by 16"
"Twilight", Rocky Mountain National Park, Oil on board,
ca. 1929 . SOLD
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 WILLIAM
PENHALLOW HENDERSON, American (1877-1943)
11 1/2 " by 7 1/4"
Before Laguna Pueblo, pastel on paper, signed with the artist's
monogram "WPH" lower right, ca 1921. This pastel is thought
to be the study for an oil painting of the same subject owned by
the Toledo, Ohio Art Museum.
William Penhallow Henderson was an important early Santa Fe, New
Mexico painter, architect, builder and furniture craftsman. Henderson's
mature style was characterized by a rhythmically designed modernism,
a high key, emotive colorism, and compassion for his subject matter.
Greatly influenced by Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Whistler, Henderson's
paintings were always highly original and represented a distinctly
personal feeling and spontaneity. His work was an inspiration to
avant-garde as well as conservative painters in the Southwest. SOLD
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NELLIE AUGUSTA KNOPF (1875-1962), Glacier Park, Montana, plein air sketch, oil on canvas
Over board 8”x10”; signed N.A. Knopf, lower right,, ca. 1923-25.
Grew up in Chicago, studied with Freer and Vanderpoel at the School of the Chicago Art Institute,.from which she graduated with honors in 1900; in the same year began a long association with Illinois Woman's College (now MacMurray College), Jacksonville, Il. where, despite the handicap of being deaf, she was a teacher of art and for many years department head. Studied with J.F. Carlson, and for eight years with Charles Woodbury, 1910-1918, at Ogunquit, Maine. Knopf began her western trips in 1921, going first to Colorado, where she did much painting around Colorado Springs. From 1923 to 1924 and 1941-42 she utilized two sabaticals from MacMurray for travel, including study with Birger Sandzen at the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs, and painting in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California and the Grand Canyon of Arizona She later returned to the west and painted in Montana, then Mexico and eastern Canada. Knopf was 80 years old when she announced that she had done "miles of paintings, some of them very good." Knopf received an honorary doctorate of fine arts degree from MacMurray in 1935. Stylistically, and although she has, in some circles, erroneously been called an impressionist, perhaps because of her penchant for plein air painting, Knopf's work was decidedly regionalist/modernist in character, and characterized by exaggerated line, muscular composition, and bold, expressive colorism.
Exhibited: Penna Academy of Fine Arts, 1910-1918, 1925-29; solo exhib.
Indianapolis Art Assoc.., 1927, Art Inst. Of Chicago, 1920-1922, 1925-27, 1929-30, 1937, Corcoran Gallery Biennials, 1921-35, Washington, D.C., National Acad. Of Design, NY, 1926,St. Louis Art Mus., Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Omaha Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, , Toledo Museum, John Heron Art Inst., Indianapolis, Broadmoor Art Academy, Colo Springs, CO., Detroit Institute of Art; New York Watercolor Club, American Watercolor Society, New York, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Il. Works held: Colby College, Waterville, ME, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Il, John H. Vanderpoel Art Association, Chicago, Lafayette, Indiana Art Association, Loo Historic Colorado Collection, Colorado Springs, CO. SOLD |
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HELEN GREENE BLUMENSCHEIN (1909-1989), , India ink, gouache and watercolor on paper: inscription on verso of old backing reads “Arr-------- Peak, Helen Greene Blumenschein, 1969, gift to Erlinda and David Maes, Ranchos de Taos, from Helen Greene Blumenschein.”
The daughter of famed Taos founder Ernest Blumenschein, in 1919 at the age of ten she was brought by her parents from New York to Taos, New Mexico. Interested in art from childhood, she graduated from Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, and then went to Europe with her mother in 1929. There for more than two years, she devoted herself to her studies. After resettling in Taos she studied lithography and silk screening part of each year from 1932 to 1934 at the Art Students League.
Blumenschein made sketching trips to Arizona, the Grand Tetons and other western locations, but she focused mostly on New Mexico themes. Working in oil, watercolor, lithography and silk screen, she participated in group exhibitions in Europe and the U.S. from the 1930’s, including the National Academy, Carnegie Inst., Paris Salon, Museum of New Mexico, Denver Art Museum and the New York Worlds Fair. She had a two person exhibition with her father at the Stables Gallery,Taos in 1959, and a three person show with her parents at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, in 1979.
Bleumenschein was also a key member of the Taos Historical Society, a board Member of the New Mexico Archaeology Society, and an author of articles and books on the regions’ history and archaeology.
Public collections: Carnegie Institute, Harwood Foundation, Library of Congress, Museum of New Mexico, New York Public Library and others.
Thanks to the Kovinicks and their wonderful reference on the leading female painters of the west for the bulk of this biographical information. SOLD |
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FRANK VAVRA, died 1967, “Melting Snow, Estes Park, Colorado, (Winter Quiet)” oil on canvas 24”x24” signed lower right and titled variously on the artist’s Bailey, Colorado studio stickers verso, ca. 1929, exhibited “Vavra Tryptich,” The Vance Kirkland Museum, Denver,CO, 2006. Frank J. Vavra (1898-1967) was the leading resident impressionist painter in Colorado during the the 1920’s and 1930’s. The student of American Impressionist Robert Alexander Graham and John Thompson, an early Denver modernist and academic, Vavra became very popular for his beautiful, shimmering and dramatically lit impressionist paintings. He later transitioned into the regionalist populist style so popular by the mid-thirties, and subsequently into partial and full abstraction. The finest example of Vavra’s mature impressionist technique we’ve been able to offer in our 30 years in the business, Winter Quiet is rich in brushwork, saturated color and lighting nuances. Additional high resolution images available. Price on request. SOLD |
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HARRY LEARNED (1844-1895) A rare and historically significant Birds-eye view of the silver mining boomtown of Robinson, Colorado, painted in a quaint, folksy manner, oil on canvas 16x27” sight, signed lower right Learned, ’87. Robinson was located about 5 miles north of present day Frisco along the banks of Ten Mile Creek ,and was a major mid way point for rail trans-shipment of silver ores and smelted metals to and from Leadville. Learned lived in Robinson from 1884-1888, the period of its greatest boom. A similar, larger version is in the permanent collection of the Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, and a variant winter view is in the collection of the Denver Art Museum
Detailed biographical on Harry Learned is available on request. SOLD |
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ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAHAM ., (1873-1946), Untitled Colorado fall scenic with stream, oil on canvas 16" x 20", signed Robt. A. Graham: lower right, ca. 1925 SOLD
WALTER SHIRLAW, N.A., (1838-1909), “Omaha Dance, Northern Cheyennes, Tongue River Agency, Montana, 1890 “ oil on mahogany panel 6”x10”, signed lower right,,
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PENHALLOW HENDERSON, American (1877-1943)
