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DAVID HAMMONS (American, b. 1943)
Feed Folks, 1974
Mixed media
39-3/4 x 29-1/2 inches (101.0 x 74.9 cm)
Signed in pencil lower right: Hammons

Auction 5172 | Lot: 72232 | May 31, 2014

Sold For: $1,205,000.00
THE PROPERTY OF PHILIP JONSSON

WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (American, 1866-1955)
Home, Sweet Home, 1932
Oil on canvas
40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Leigh 1932

Auction 5085 | Lot: 70040 | Nov 5, 2011

Sold For: $1,195,000.00
HOWARD A. TERPNING (American, b. 1927)
Plunder From Sonora, 1982
Oil on canvas
30 x 48 inches (76.2 x 121.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Terpning

WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS COLLECTION
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5116 | Lot: 76046 | Nov 10, 2012

Sold For: $962,500.00

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$1,443,750 or more
MILTON AVERY (American, 1885-1965)
From the Studio, 1954
Oil on canvas
58 x 42 inches (147.3 x 106.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Milton Avery 1954

Auction 5174 | Lot: 70159 | May 10, 2014

Sold For: $875,000.00
BRUCE NAUMAN (American, b. 1941)
Human Nature, 1983
Charcoal, pencil, pastel, and watercolor on pape...
Auction 5043 | Lot: 72098 | Jun 9, 2010

Sold For: $776,750.00
REMBRANDT PEALE (American, 1778-1860)
George Washington, circa 1856
Oil on canvas
36-1/2 x 29 inches (92.7 x 73.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Rembrandt Peale.
Inscribed verso: Original Portrait of ... (1795)

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED DALLAS FAMILY COLLECTION

Auction 5136 | Lot: 64100 | May 11, 2013

Sold For: $662,500.00

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$993,750 or more
HOWARD A. TERPNING (American, b. 1927)
Crow Country, 1978
Oil on canvas
30 x 46 inches (76.2 x 116.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Terpning / 1978

WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS COLLECTION

This lot is accompanied by a copy of the book Terpning: Tribute to the Plains People.
(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5116 | Lot: 76052 | Nov 10, 2012

Sold For: $662,500.00
NORMAN ROCKWELL (American, 1894-1978)
The Song of Bernadette, 1944
Oil on canvas
53 x 28 in.
Signed lower right

(Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5145 | Lot: 78138 | Oct 26, 2013

Sold For: $605,000.00
ALBERT BIERSTADT (American, 1830-1902)
Mount Brewer from King's River Canyon, California, 1872
Oil on canvas
36 x 47 inches (91.4 x 119.4 cm)
Signed lower left: A Bierstadt

FENDER FAMILY TRUST (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 5116 | Lot: 76040 | Nov 10, 2012

Sold For: $602,500.00

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$903,750 or more
WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (American, 1866-1955)
Land of Navaho (Young Indian Goat Herder), 1948
Oil on canvas
45 x 60 inches (114.3 x 152.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Leigh 1948 ©
Titled on labels verso
Bears artist's stamps on original frame verso

PROPERTY FROM THE JUDSON C. BALL AND NANCY SUE BALL FINE ART COLLECTION

Auction 5198 | Lot: 68258 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $575,000.00

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$862,500 or more
THOMAS MORAN (American 1837 - 1926)
Moonlight. Icebergs in Mid Atlantic, 1910
Signed and dated at lower right (recto),...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24012 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $567,625.00
JOHN MCCRADY (American, 1911-1968)
Steamboat 'Round the Bend, 1946
Oil on canvas
78 x 168 inches (198.1 x 426.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: John McCrady 46

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED DALLAS FAMILY COLLECTION

Auction 5136 | Lot: 64137 | May 11, 2013

Sold For: $542,500.00
The Hon. Paul H. Buchanan, Jr. Collection

MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (American, 1819-1904)
Sunset over the Mar...
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77010 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $537,750.00

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$950,000 or more
SAM FRANCIS (American, 1923-1994)
Untitled, 1988
Acrylic on canvas
79-1/2 x 120 inches (201.9 x 304.8 cm) [painting has also been exhibited and documented in the vertical orientation]
Estate stamp verso

Property of a Distinguished Gentleman

Auction 5172 | Lot: 72083 | May 31, 2014

Sold For: $515,000.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (American, 1882-1922)
Blue Bonnet Field, Early Morning, San Antonio Texas, 1914
Oil on canvas
30-1/2 x 40 inches (77.5 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right: Julian Onderdonk
Titled, inscribed, signed, and dated verso: Blue Bonnet Field / Early Morning / San Antonio, Texas- / - Julian Onderdonk - 1914 -

Auction 5147 | Lot: 76005 | Nov 16, 2013

Sold For: $515,000.00
JEROME THOMPSON (American, 1814-1886)
Riverbank in Bloom, 1865
Oil on canvas
18 x 15 inches (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Jerome Thompson / 1865

THE JEAN AND GRAHAM DEVOE WILLIFORD CHARITABLE TRUST

Auction 5136 | Lot: 64063 | May 11, 2013

Sold For: $512,500.00
The Hon. Paul H. Buchanan, Jr. Collection

MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (American, 1819-1904)
Cherokee Roses on a...
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77011 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $507,875.00
CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (American, 1864-1926)
Kickover of Morning Coffee Pot, 1896
Watercolor on paper
19 x 28 inches (48.3 x 71.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: CM Russell / 1896 (with artist's cipher)

Auction 5116 | Lot: 76020 | Nov 10, 2012

Sold For: $482,500.00
NORMAN ROCKWELL (American, 1894-1978)
The Song of Bernadette, 1944
Oil on canvas
53 x 28 inches (...
Auction 621 | Lot: 30655 | Nov 18, 2005

Sold For: $478,000.00
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (American, 1887-1986)
Alligator Pears, circa 1923
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Signed on stretcher verso: O'Keeffe

PROPERTY FROM THE KING COLLECTION, TEXAS

Auction 5198 | Lot: 68041 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $461,000.00

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$691,500 or more
The Hon. Paul H. Buchanan, Jr. Collection

GEORGE HENRY DURRIE (American, 1820-1863)
Winter in the Countr...
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77012 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $448,125.00

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$672,188 or more
HOWARD A. TERPNING (American, b. 1927)
Slim Chance, 1978
Oil on canvas
24 x 40 inches (61.0 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: © / Terpning / 1978
Signed, titled and inscribed verso: "Slim Chance" 24 x 40 / All reproduction rights / To this painting are / Retained by the / Artist Howard Terpning / HA Terpning

PROPERTY FROM THE WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS COLLECTION

Auction 5198 | Lot: 68270 | Nov 17, 2014

Sold For: $395,000.00
THE PROPERTY OF PHILIP JONSSON

WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (American, 1866-1955)
Renegade at Bay, 1941
Oil on canvas
24 x 29 inches (61.0 x 73.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Leigh 1941

Auction 5085 | Lot: 70041 | Nov 5, 2011

Sold For: $388,375.00
E. MARTIN HENNINGS (American, 1886-1956)
The War Bonnet
Oil on canvas
48-1/2 x 36 inches (123.2 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right: E. Martin Hennings

Auction 5116 | Lot: 76102 | Nov 10, 2012

Sold For: $386,500.00

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$579,750 or more
THOMAS MORAN (American 1837 - 1926)
Devil's Tower, Green River, Wyoming, 1919
Oil on canvas
20 x 16in.
Signed and d...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24014 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $382,400.00
HELEN FRANKENTHALER (American, b. 1928)
Quattrocento, 1984
Acrylic on canvas
55-7/8 x 62-5/8 inch...
Auction 5043 | Lot: 72054 | Jun 9, 2010

Sold For: $346,550.00
MAXFIELD PARRISH (American 1870 - 1966)
Poet's Dream, 1901
Created to illustrate John Milton's poem "L'Allegro" pu...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24042 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $346,550.00
ROY LICHTENSTEIN (American, 1923-1997)
Water Lilies with Cloud, 1992
Screenprinted enamel on processed and swirled stainless steel with painted wood artist's frame
67 x 46-3/8 inches (170.2 x 117.9 cm)
Ed. 15/23
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse

Property of a Distinguished Gentleman

Auction 5197 | Lot: 70159 | Nov 8, 2014

Sold For: $341,000.00
ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Ads, 1985
Portfolio of ten screenprints on Lenox Museum Board
38 x 38 inches (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Ed. 50/190
Each signed and numbered in pencil
(Total: 10 Items)
Auction 5138 | Lot: 72080 | May 22, 2013

Sold For: $338,500.00
ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Endangered Species, 1983
Portfolio of ten screenprints on Lenox Museum Board
38 x 38 inches (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Ed. 103/150
Each signed and numbered in pencil
(Total: 10 Items)
Auction 5138 | Lot: 72081 | May 22, 2013

Sold For: $338,500.00
The Hon. Paul H. Buchanan, Jr. Collection

HENRY FRANÇOIS FARNY (American, 1847-1916)
Saddling Up...
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77037 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $334,600.00
HENRY ARTHUR (HARRY) MCARDLE (American, 1836-1908)
The Battle of San Jacinto, 1901
Oil on canvas
...
Auction 5050 | Lot: 76013 | Nov 20, 2010

Sold For: $334,600.00

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$501,900 or more
EDWARD RUSCHA (American, b. 1937)
Golden Words, 1985
Pigment and acrylic on paper
36 x 58 inches ...
Auction 5043 | Lot: 72094 | Jun 9, 2010

Sold For: $334,600.00
ROBERT SPENCER (American, 1879-1931)
A River Mill Town
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left: Robert Spencer

Auction 5118 | Lot: 73001 | Nov 15, 2012

Sold For: $326,500.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (American, 1882-1922)
A Hillside of Blue Bonnets- Early Morning, Near San Antonio Texas, 1916
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left: Julian Onderdonk
Titled, signed, and dated verso: A Hillside of Blue Bonnets- Early Morning / Near San Antonio Texas / Julian Onderdonk - 1916

Auction 5147 | Lot: 76004 | Nov 16, 2013

Sold For: $317,000.00
FRANK STELLA (American, b. 1936)
Eskimo Curlew (3X), 1977
Enamel, oilstick and crushed glass on corrugated aluminum
54 x 69 x 13-1/2 inches (137.2 x 175.3 x 34.3 cm)

Auction 5146 | Lot: 64091 | Nov 2, 2013

Sold For: $317,000.00
ANNA HYATT HUNTINGTON (American, 1876-1973)
Torch Bearers, 1955; cast in 1962
Bronze with natural verdigris patina
186 inches (472.4 cm) high
Inscribed on the base: a Hyatt Huntington/Stanerigg 1953 © / ROMAN BRONZE WORKS INC NY

PROPERTY FROM THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM, WITH PROCEEDS TO DIRECTLY BENEFIT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITS

Auction 5149 | Lot: 64100 | Dec 5, 2013

Sold For: $315,000.00

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$472,500 or more
The Hon. Paul H. Buchanan, Jr. Collection

MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (American, 1819-1904)
Hummingbirds and Th...
Auction 5024 | Lot: 77009 | Jun 10, 2009

Sold For: $310,700.00
FREDERIC REMINGTON (American 1861-1909)
A Mexican Buccaro - In Texas, circa 1890
Oil on canvas
21-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches (54.6 x 44.4 cm)
Signed lower left: Frederic Remington

Provenance:
Newhouse Galleries (New York);
Mr. And Mrs. F. Howard Walsh (Fort Worth, Texas);
Walsh Family Art Trust (Fort Worth, Texas)

Literature:
Harby, Lee C. "Texan Types And Contrasts", Harper's New Monthly Magazine (vol. 81, issue 482, July 1980, p. 241)

In 1881, Frederic Remington set off for the vast territories of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and veered north to Montana and the Dakotas armed with the goal of recording the people he encountered there as well as a vanishing way of life. His subsequent work as an illustrator for Harper's New Monthly Magazine depended upon this initial trove of highly detailed imagery, and in 1885 he was sent back West by the magazine editors to record Native American conflicts and capture in paint a feeling for life in the southwest. Within a decade, Remington became the dean of Western illustrators, just as the "Wild West" was vanishing forever.

Painted circa 1890 The Mexican Buccaro - in Texas is an outstanding example of Remington's illustration style, which captured the imagination of the reading public. This painting was featured in the July 1890 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, and accompanied an article entitled "Texan Types and Contrasts" by Lee C. Harby. The text sketched a romanticized portrait of the Mexican life in Texas, and waxed poetic on subjects ranging from spicy and flavorful Mexican foods to the dignified and passionate demeanors of the Mexican people. While Harby acknowledged that numerous nationalities contributed to the colorful tableaux of Texan life, all of Remington's illustrations, by contrast, depict only Mexicans. Remington showed them engaged in a range of activities, which was the primary focus of the article.

Painted
Auction 652 | Lot: 24030 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $310,700.00
MAXFIELD PARRISH (American 1870-1966)
Sugar Hill, Late Afternoon, 1930
Oil on prepared board
25 x 30-1/2 inches (63 x 76 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Maxfield Parrish 1930
Titled, inscribed, dated and signed verso: Sugar Hill:Late Afternoon/Plainfield, New Hampshire/1930/Maxfield Parrish

Provenance:
The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
Eli Lily Collection (Indianapolis, Indiana);
Private Collection (Tennessee)

Literature:
Letter of authentication from Maxfield Parrish, Jr. dated July 19, 1975; Letter from the same to Rosalind Mikesell, discussing a photograph of his father's studio dating from about 1932 in which the painting appears, dated July 19, 1975; Bruce Weber, American Paintings IX (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 2001), pp, 110-111 (reproduced)

Sugar Hill, Late Afternoon was painted in 1930 and records a view of the hill behind Parrish's property in the central New Hampshire town of Plainfield where he lived from 1898 until his death in 1966. Parrish, an enormously successful illustrator, developed a serious interest in landscape painting during the course of the 1930s, which intensified as the result of a particular commission: in 1934 the firm of Brown and Bigelow engaged him to paint summer and winter scenes of his own choosing for a series of calendars. As Alma Gilbert has noted, during the last thirty years of his life Parrish 'sought to capture the tranquil, idyllic settings of the spectrally picturesque New England area where he lived' (Alma Gilbert, Maxfield Parrish: The Masterbooks (Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1995], p. 168).

Parrish purposefully sought to make his images direct and eye-catching. He consistently gave equal attention to all details in his compositions in order to achieve 'a quality of reality and consequently a beauty of truth' (Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish [New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973
Auction 652 | Lot: 23157 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $310,700.00
An intact and complete album of 30 Walter Bone Shirt drawings
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
c. 1887-88
Leather alb...
Auction 643 | Lot: 48091 | Sep 29, 2006

Sold For: $298,750.00

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ROBERT INDIANA (American, b. 1928)
Yield Brother Frank, 1991
Oil on canvas
24 x 22 inches (61.0 x 55.9 cm)
Signed, dedicated and dated on the overlap

Property of a Distinguished Gentleman

Auction 5197 | Lot: 70089 | Nov 8, 2014

Sold For: $293,000.00
THOMAS MORAN (American 1837 - 1926)
Splendor of Venice (The Grand Canal), 1904
Oil on canvas
20 x 30in.
Signed and d...
Auction 638 | Lot: 24013 | Nov 9, 2006

Sold For: $292,775.00

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$439,162 or more
ED RUSCHA (American, b. 1937)
Rustic Pines, 1967
Gunpowder on paper
13-1/4 x 21-3/4 inches (33.7 x 55.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Ed Ruscha 1967 and noted lower right: gp

Auction 5138 | Lot: 72073 | May 22, 2013

Sold For: $290,500.00
WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (American, 1866-1955)
One Good Turn Deserves Another, 1944
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Leigh 1944

THE HOGAN FAMILY COLLECTION
(Total: 2)
Auction 5116 | Lot: 76195 | Nov 10, 2012

Sold For: $290,500.00
WILLIAM HERBERT (BUCK) DUNTON (American 1878-1936)
In the Tetons
Oil on canvas
14-1/8 x 14-1/8 inches (35.9 x 35.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Dunton
Old paper label on verso: In the Tetons / by / W. Herbert Dunton

Auction 656 | Lot: 23358 | Dec 7, 2007

Sold For: $286,800.00
WILLIAM HERBERT (BUCK) DUNTON (American 1878-1936)
Summer Silhouette, circa 1926
Oil on canvas
14 x 14 inches (35.56 x 35.56 cm)
Signed lower left: Dunton
Inscribed on the reverse in paint: "Summer Silhouette" / by W. Herbert Dunton; in pen: Taos. New Mexico, and lower in pencil: Oil Painting / Catalogue - No. 7 - / $450.00 / 1927?

Provenance:
Bessie Heard (McKinney, Texas);
Bessie Heard Trust

William Herbert "Buck" Dunton was a precocious illustrator who left school at the age of sixteen to pursue his art full time. His illustrations appeared in books and magazines such as Scribner's, Collier's and Harper's Weekly, among others. The proceeds from these ventures funded his summer trips West, beginning in Montana in 1896. In fact, these summer excursions were inspired as much by his love of the outdoors as for his need for fresh ideas for the Western imagery his new profession required of him.

Dunton attended the Cowles Art School in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied under Joseph de Camp and Ernest Blumenschein. It was Blumenschein who first suggested Taos to Dunton, and the latter permanently relocated there in 1912. Together with Oscar Berninghaus, E. Irving Couse, William Herbert "Buck" Dunton, Bert G. Phillips and Joseph H. Sharp, Blumenschein founded the Taos Society of Artists in 1915. Their mission was to sell paintings depicting the people and environs that had captured their imaginations, although the lack of local galleries resulted in a number of traveling exhibitions, which in the end brought their work to a wider public.

In 1922 Dunton left the Taos Society of Artists to pursue an independent career. Giving full rein to his nostalgia for the golden age of the West and the vanishing frontier, Dunton captured nature and cowboys with romance and sensitivity by harnessing a powerful sense of two-dimensiona
Auction 652 | Lot: 24001 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $286,800.00
GIL ELVGREN (American, 1914-1980)
Gay Nymph, 1947
Oil on canvas
36 x 25 in.
Signed lower right

From the Estate of Charles Martignette.

Auction 5059 | Lot: 78105 | May 4, 2011

Sold For: $286,800.00

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$430,200 or more

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