Heritage Auction Galleries

Dr. Pillsbury is one of America's foremost museum professionals who helped build the art collections of the renowned Kimbell as well as the Paul Mellon Collection of British Art and served as the founding director of the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art housing the Steve Wynn collection. He has an international reputation as a connoisseur, scholar, and arts administrator.

Among his many outstanding accomplishments, Dr. Pillsbury is a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1991 New York Times art critic John Russell characterized Dr. Pillsbury as "one of the most gifted men in the American museum profession."

A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Pillsbury holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art. His acclaimed former management positions include Director of the Yale Center for British Art and Chief Executive Officer of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London. He served as Director of the Meadows Museum and Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and is currently a Research Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, a position he holds part-time.

A native of Minneapolis, he is the great-grandson of the founder of the Pillsbury Milling Company, today known to consumers as the Pillsbury bakery division of General Mills, Inc.

During the 1990s, Ed segued into dealing in collectibles and original artwork full-time. Quickly he became one of the most experienced, trusted, and well-known comics and original art dealers in America. Ed joined Heritage and moved to Dallas in early 2002. Ed's client list (now part of Heritage's) is almost as legendary as his knowledge of collectibles and art. He has bought and sold numerous six-figure American and European paintings, iconic vintage photography, complete runs of Mile High comic books, rare toys, classic movie posters, historic memorabilia, and important first edition rare books. Ed is a Senior Overstreet Advisor, has won several CBG Customer Service Awards, and served as an AACC Grading and Certification panelist for Christie's auctions in 1994 and 1995.

In 2005 Ed was promoted to the position of Vice President, Heritage Auction Galleries. He remains the department head for vintage comic books and original art, as well as in-house specialist for Illustration Art and American Paintings. Ed lives in Richardson, Texas (a suburb of Dallas) with his wife, Pamela, and daughter, Madeleine.

Duty is a frequent lecturer on American Western Art and History. He is the author of several books on the subject, including, "Remington's West," "Southwest Realism: A New Mexico Tradition," "Frontier Legacy," "Dave McGary, American Realist in Bronze," and "Under Western Skies: The Art of Bob Pummill." His recent book, "The Cowboy Artists of America," won the Wrangler Award for best art book of 2003 presented by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. He has organized over sixty museum exhibitions on a wide variety of subjects. He has participated in art and history symposia at several institutions and universities, most recently at the annual Prix de West exhibition and symposium at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and the C. M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. One of his most recent books, published in 2005, "Western Traditions: Contemporary Artists of the American West" won the award for best book on the Southwest presented at the New Mexico Book Awards in 2007. He is currently working on a book on traditional Texas art that will feature both historic and contemporary Texas artists. At Heritage, Mr. Duty will also be in charge of the early Texas art program.

Duty has been active in many areas of the museum profession. He recently served as vice president of the Texas Association of Museums (TAM). He was also appointed to the task force planning the archives, library, and collection storage facility for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, which recently opened in Washington, D. C.

Mr. Pegg has handled the sale of major works from museums and other various public collections and has been highly instrumental in creating the market and increasing the interest level in regional painting, African-American works, and Magic Realist works. He has attained numerous record prices in the sale of these categories of works.

Michael's passion for the arts began while he was an undergraduate at Ohio State University. After graduation, his earliest ventures in the art business took him from a small antique shop in Cleveland to his first auction house in California. In 1978 he returned to Cleveland and opened WOLF'S auction house on Cleveland's East Side. Due to the growth of the business WOLF'S moved to a beautiful downtown gallery in 1988. Under Michael's leadership, WOLF'S set numerous world record prices for art and antiques, established a reputation of honesty and integrity throughout the industry, and successfully converted from a traditional live auction format to an entirely online Internet business.