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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
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
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American 1859-1953)
Taos Fishing Trip, circa October 1932
Oil on canvas
14 x 17 inches (35.6 x 43.2 cm)
Signed lower right: JHSHARP
On verso: original check from Lawrence Slaback endorsed by Joseph Henry Sharp

Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Slaback, purchased directly from artist on October 4, 1932;
Hazel Risselman, inherited from Slaybacks;
Descended in family to Jim Risselman

Joseph Henry Sharp, the father of the Taos art colony, was born in Bridgeport, Ohio, and saw his first Native Americans near Wheeling, West Virginia, just across the Ohio River. He spent his teenage years in Cincinnati, where he studied art at the McMicken School of Design and the Cincinnati Art Academy. Over the course of the 1880s and early 1890s Sharp continued his studies in Munich, Antwerp and Paris. From 1892 to 1902 he taught life drawing and portraiture at the Cincinnati Art Academy. During this period he often ventured west to paint American Indians.

Sharp made trips to Taos, New Mexico, in 1883 and 1893. From 1902 to 1909, he spent summers in Taos and winters at Crow Agency in Montana. In 1910 he settled permanently in Taos. In the 1930s Sharp traveled to China and Hawaii, and in later years he spent winters in Pasadena, California. Sharp was a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists and received numerous prizes, including a silver medal at the Pan American Exposition of 1901 and a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915.

Important groups of Sharp's paintings are preserved in the collections of the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas.

Sharp painted numerous landscapes and outdoor studies in Taos. He adapted a shepherd's wagon as a studio-on-wh
Auction 652 | Lot: 24009 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $179,250.00

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$268,875 or more
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American 1859-1953)
Jerry
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left: JHSHARP
Titled on stretcher bar on verso: Jerry

Provenance:
Forest Fenn;
Dorothy and William Harmsen, Sr. (Denver, Colorado)<

The painting features Jerry Mirabel (also known as Elk Foot and Túmenah), who was Sharp's favorite model and close friend. Over the course of the period 1913-1949, Mirabel posed for numerous portraits and scenes depicting tribal rituals. He died in 1980 at the age of 110. According to Forest Fenn, upon Mirabel's death "the Indians went into mourning and the pueblo was closed to all outsiders for three days" (The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance: A Study of the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp [Sante Fe, New Mexico, Fenn Publishing Company, 1983], p. 237).

The painting features Jerry Mirabel (also known as Elk Foot and Túmenah), who was Sharp's favorite model and close friend. Over the course of the period 1913-1949, Mirabel posed for numerous portraits and scenes depicting tribal rituals. He died in 1980 at the age of 110. According to Forest Fenn, upon Mirabel's death 'the Indians went into mourning and the pueblo was closed to all outsiders for three days' (The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance: A Study of the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp [Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fenn Publishing Company, 1983], p. 237).

Sharp established a reputation for his ability to render the distinctive facial features of the various tribes he pictured, as well as their individual costumes, artifacts and ceremonies. He created numerous half-length portraits of Native American men standing in three-quarter profile attired in feather bonnets and hide clothing. Sarah E. Boehme has noted that in these and related portraits beadwork and 'other characteristics of Indian design are evident on the clothing, but details are softened because Sharp painted
Auction 652 | Lot: 24012 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $155,350.00
LAVERNE NELSON BLACK (American 1887-1938)
Night Out in Taos (Taos Indian Night Watch), circa 1930
Oil on canvas board
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

Signed lower right

Provenance:
Dorothy and William Harmsen, Sr. (Denver, Colorado);
Harmsen Museum of Art (Denver, Colorado)

Exhibition:
Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, Denver, Colorado, Harmsen Western Art Exhibit, 2000

Literature:
Dorothy Harmsen, Harmsen's Western Americana (Flagstaff, Arizona: Norrthland Press, 1971), p. 25 (reproduced)

Laverne Nelson Black was born in Viola, Wisconsin. As a youngster he began to develop an interest in depicting western subjects--the result of his exposure to the Native American heritage of the Kickapoo River Valley where he grew up. He regularly associated with boys living on the local reservation. In his earliest pictures he used earth and vegetable colors as well as red keel, the soft stone native to the area that was often used by Native Americans for ceremonial purposes. In 1906, Black's family sold their hotel and restaurant business and moved to Chicago. Black attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for two years, and during his final year there was awarded a scholarship. Following art school, he pursued a career as a newspaper illustrator in Chicago, Minneapolis and New York. During the summer months he would travel to the west to sketch on ranches and reservations. He created painting and sculpture, and he appears to have had some success selling his bronze figures of Native Americans and cowboys.

In the late 1920s, health problems demanded Black move to a warmer and drier climate, and he settled with his wife and children in Taos, New Mexico. In 1937, he and his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he received a major commission from the Public Works Administration to paint six panels for the east lobby of the Phoenix Post Office. The series depicts the history of Arizona from the pioneer days thro
Auction 652 | Lot: 24004 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $143,400.00

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JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American 1859-1953)
Bawling Deer, circa 1924 -1946
Oil on canvas
16 x 13 inches (40.6 x 33 cm)
Signed lower right: JHSHARP
Titled on stretcher bar on verso in artist's hand
Inscribed versro: Francis Taos Indian

Provenance:
Forest Fenn;
Dorothy and William Harmsen, Sr.,(Denver, Colorado)

Bawling Deer is one of numerous portraits Sharp painted of Frank Martinez (who was known both as Bawling Deer and Pâh Wélah) between 1924 and 1946. Here Martinez is wrapped almost entirely in what appears to be a government-issued commercial blanket. Only his wonderfully expressive face and moccasins are exposed. The portrait reflects the growing emphasis on pictorial concerns in Sharp's workit is as much a character study as a study of color, light, form and texture. Sarah E. Boehme has noted that as early as 1905, Sharp's portraits were becoming 'not character studies or records of famous warriors, but studies of pictorial effects, of light falling on subjects. Not only did he pose his subjects, he also probably suggested clothing for them to wear' ('The North and Snow: J. H. Sharp in Montana,' Montana 49 [Autumn 1990]: 43).
Auction 652 | Lot: 24010 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $143,400.00
EANGER IRVING COUSE (American 1866-1936)
Study for Flute Player with his Sons (Indian Campfire), 1916
Oil on canvas
6 x 35 inches (15.2 x 58.4 cm)
Signed lower left: Couse

Provenance:
Dorothy and William Harmsen, Sr. (Denver, Colorado)

Literature:
Couse family Archives;
Ellen Landis, Eanger Irving Couse: Image Maker for America (Albuquerque, New Mexico: Albuquerque Museum Foundation, 1991) p. 19;
Nicholas Woloshuk, E. Irving Couse 1866-1926 (Santa Fe, New Mexico: Santa Fe Village Art Museum, 1976), illus. p. 37

Couse was born and raised in the logging town of Saganaw, Michigan, where as a youngster he drew the Chippewa Indians who lived nearby. While still a teenager he attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Academy of Design in New York. At the age of twenty he traveled to France, where he studied at the Académie Julien under William Adolphe Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. Couse remained in France for nearly a decade, and specialized in painting landscapes and peasant subjects. In 1889, he married fellow art student Virginia Walker, a rancher's daughter from the state of Washington. In 1891 they settled for a year at the Walker family's ranch in Klikitat County. While living there Couse produced his first oil paintings of Native Americans.

In 1898, Couse established a winter studio in New York, and spent the next few summers away from the city, painting in Washington, Connecticut and France. In May 1902, Couse learned of Taos, New Mexico through a conversation with his artist friend Ernest Blumenschein. Shortly thereafter he traveled to Taos for the first of his regular summer stays. In 1910 he purchased an old Spanish monastery, which he converted into a studio and home. Five years later, when the Taos Society of Artists was formed, Couse was elected its first President. In 1928, he and his family gave up their New York home and settled permanently in Taos.

Couse
Auction 652 | Lot: 24021 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $95,600.00
BERT GREER PHILLIPS (American 1868-1956)
Corpus Christi Sunday in Taos
Oil on panel
13 x 18 inches (33 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left: Phillips
Inscribed on reverse: Corpus Cristi Sunday in Taos by Bert Phillips

Provenance:
Mark Sublette, Medicine Man Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico);
Ex Harmsen Collection, Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado)

Born in Hudson, New York, Bert Phillips began his artistic career at age fifteen studying at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He continued his training in Paris at Académie Julian, where he met artists Joseph Henry Sharp and Ernest Blumenschein, who would become life-long friends. Phillips is considered the founder of the Taos art colony and was deeply involved in promoting the town and pueblo to other artists. He adopted a modern approach by painting Taos Pueblo Indians in a vibrantly colored, realistic style that conveyed the romantic notions he felt about the culture.

Considered one the top ten paintings by Phillips, Corpus Christi Sunday in Taos captures over forty worshippers in their Sunday best during the celebration of Corpus Christi. A traditional Catholic festival observed on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi commemorates the Christian Eucharist, in which the wine and wafer are symbolically transformed into the body and blood of Christ. The painting is in pristine condition and is accompanied by a letter of authenticity.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24020 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $89,625.00
JULIUS ROLSHOVEN (American 1858-1930)
Sun Arrow, circa 1916-1920
Oil on canvas
36 x 28 inches (58.4 x 71.1 cm)
Signed and inscribed upper left: "Sun Arrow"/Taos, N.M./J. Rolshoven

Provenance:Dorothy and William Harmsen, Sr. (Denver, Colorado)

Literature:
Van Daren Coke, Taos and Santa Fe: The Artist's Environment 1182-1942 (Albuquerque, New Mexico: The University of New Mexico Press, 1963);
Arrell Morgan Gibson, The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses, (Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983);
Dorothy Harmsen, American Western Art (Denver, Colorado: Harmsen Publishing Company, 1977), p. 173 (reproduced)

Rolshoven was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father Frederick was a master goldsmith of German descent who founded one of Detroit's leading jewelry firms. Rolshoven studied at the Cooper Union in New York, the Dusseldorf Academy, the Munich Art Academy, privately with Frank Duveneck in Germany and Italy, and to the Académie Julien in Paris. After teaching art in Paris from 1890 to 1895, Rolshoven moved to London where he continued teaching for seven years. From there he moved to Florence, where he settled in 1902. Rolshoven returned to America following the outbreak of World War I. In 1915, he and his wife Harriette were impressed by the beauty of the New Mexico Building at the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. The experience motivated them to travel to New Mexico in early 1916. Captivated by Sante Fe and Taos, they spent nearly five years living in the state. Rolshoven remarked that he had 'traveled all over . . . in search of atmosphere, but nowhere else have I seen nature ever provide everything, even the conception, as it does in New Mexico' (Gibson, p. 11).

Rolshoven became an Associate Member of the Taos Society of Artists in 1917 and an Active Member in 1918. He had a studio at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, but often worked outdoo
Auction 652 | Lot: 24022 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $77,675.00
WILLIAM ROBINSON LEIGH (American 1866-1955)
Blind Hopi Girl Returning from a Desert Watering Hole, September 1915
Oil on canvas
11 x 15-1/2 inches (27.9 x 39.4 cm)
Signed lower left: W.R. Leigh
Signed, titled and dated on reverse: First Mesa Arizona/Sept 1915/W. R. Leigh/A blind hopi girl returning from a desert watering hoal [sic]/The original sketch, from which a picture has been painted.

Provenance:
Dr. H.G. Tonkin of Williamsport, MD, gifted by the artist to Dr. Tonkin for the care of Leigh's ailing mother;
Jane Porter-Post Snyder, heir to Dr. Tonkin's estate;
Collection of Boarman Arts Center (The Arts Centre, Martinsburg, WV) 1999, gifted by Jane Porter-Post Snyder

William Robinson Leigh's genre paintings of Native Americans capture the essence of the American West in vivid color. In the present work, Leigh created a dramatic depiction of a blind Hopi girl retrieving fresh water, drawing upon pictorial conventions from his academic training. A lone figure is shown against a vast, open landscape evoking both a sense of isolation and grandeur. The artist gave this painting to Dr. H.G. Tonkin, as a token of his heartfelt gratitude for the medical care the doctor had given his ill mother.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24008 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $74,687.50
CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (American 1864-1926)
Nancy Cooper Russell's Wedding Ring, circa 1896
24K Gold
Approximately ring size 6

Provenance:
Jack Russell, gifted by Charles Russell in 1925;
Mrs. Jack Russell, Jack Russell's wife;
Bill Reynolds, 1970

Designed by Charles Russell and cast from a gold nugget, this distinctively Western piece of jewelry was made as a wedding ring for his wife Nancy Cooper. Cast in the shape of a western saddle, the ring is likely one of the first three-dimensional sculptural works ever produced by the artist, and therefore possibly instrumental in his introduction to the sculptural medium. Spurred by Nancy's devoted support and promotion, in 1898, just two years after their marriage, Russell cast his first bronze at the Roman Bronze Works in New York, a move that would lead Russell to become one of the greatest Western artists in history.

The ring is accompanied by a signed affidavit by Charles Russell's son, Jack Russell. The illustrated affidavit is photocopied, however the date and original final signature are in Jack Russell's hand, in black ink. The ring is mounted in a custom-made leather clamshell case. The text of the affidavit reads in full

Dear Reader,

My father Charles M. Russell met my mother Nancy Cooper in Cascade Montana. She was living with the Roberts family. After a courtship Charlie proposed to Nancy, and to his surprize (sic) and relief she accepted. Charlie had little money, but much imagination, he took to her a ring duplicating his stock saddle. They were married at the Roberts home, in a small private ceremony. I was just a kid when Dad died. I'll never forget when Dad gave me the saddle ring. Charlie had a small shack or bunkhouse out back, which he used as a studio. This is where I believe the Russell saddle ring was made by my father. I do remember this much...the ring was made out of wax and cast into gold. The ring was an engagement or wedding gift. Jack Russell
Auction 652 | Lot: 24031 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $53,775.00
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American 1859-1953)
California Field of Poppies, 1950
Oil on canvas
9 x 11-1/2 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Signed lower right: JH Sharp
Inscribed on reverse: Sharp, Oct-9-1950

Provenance:
Private collection, (Montana);
Susan Swift, (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Literature:
To be published in Thomas Minckler's forthcoming catalogue raisonnée of Joseph Sharp's floral landscapes.

In California Field of Poppies, Sharp uses a vivid color palette in this rare floral landscape. Unlike many of his paintings of the High Sierras, Sharp's use of color emphasizes the flowers in the foreground while the mountain range serves as a backdrop retreating into the distance. Sharp utilizes Impressionist techniques of manipulating perspective through a juxtaposition of cool and warm tones. The cool muted tones of the High Sierras recede and the warm vibrancy of the flora looks as if it will literately burst from surface of the painting.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24014 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $26,290.00
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American 1859-1953)
Taos Landscape, circa 1914
Oil on canvas
9-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches (24.1 x 34.3 cm)
Signed lower right: JH Sharp

Provenance:
Ernest Woolston, gifted by the artist as a wedding gift on July 25, 1916 (Forsyth, Montana);
William F. Woolston, by descent through the family

Taos Landscape possesses strong provenance, passing through several generations of a Montana family. J.H. Sharp presented the painting to Ernest Woolston as a wedding gift in 1914. According to the Woolston family, Ernest was fluent in the Crow language and served as a translator for Sharp. The book J.H. Sharp Among the Crow Indians 1902-1910, a collection of Sharp's personal memoirs, confirms the friendship between Ernest Woolston and J.H. Sharp and includes a recollection by Sharp discussing Ernest's marriage in Forsyth.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24011 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $23,900.00
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American 1859 - 1953)
Green Ponds, circa 1920
Oil on panel
9-1/2 x 13 inches (24.1 x 33 cm)
Signed lower right: JH Sharp

Provenance:
Family of Weimer Gusdorf (Taos, New Mexico);
Robert L. Parsons Fine Art (Taos, New Mexico)

Green Ponds depicts the panoramic view of the Sangre de Cristo mountains as seen from the back door of Sharp's studio in Taos, New Mexico. Never before offered on the open market, the painting is from the collection of the famous Taos family of Weimer Gusdorf, one of the first German-Jewish merchants in Taos, settling in the valley in the 1870s.

Auction 652 | Lot: 24015 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $23,900.00
MAYNARD DIXON (American 1875-1946)
Ogalala Dakota
Watercolor on paper
14-/12 x 10-1/2 inches (37 x 26.7 cm)
Signed, inscribed and dated lower right: Ogallala Dakota/L.M. Dixon/Mar.
Inscribed verso: Merry Xmas to "Aunt Mary" from Hertz Tavoli/L. Maynard Dixon

Maynard Dixon was born on a ranch near Fresno, California, and began sketching at the age of 10. After receiving encouragement from Frederic Remington for a sketchbook he had sent him, Dixon briefly enrolled at the San Francisco Art Association's School of Design in 1891. Following this period he was active as an illustrator, and his images of the American west appeared in various newspapers, magazines, and in books by such authors as Jack London, John Muir, O. Henry, Mary Austin, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, and Clarence Mulford. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Dixon moved to New York City where he worked for several years as an illustrator for such periodicals as Scribner's Magazine and Harper's Monthly. Upon returning to California in 1912, he devoted increasing attention to easel and mural painting, and experimented with impressionism, post-impressionism, and large-scale mural decoration, while continuing to pursue a career in commercial art, especially poster design. In the course of the 1920s his simplified compositions and flat yet crisp painting style became his distinctive trademark. Dixon's watercolor Oglala Dakota dates from the 1920s. During his career Dixon spent time among numerous Native American tribes, including the Sioux, Hopi, Blackfoot, and Navajo Indians. The Oglala Lakota Sioux made their home in various western states, including South Dakota.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24023 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $23,900.00
CHARLES H. HUMPHRISS (American 1867-1934)
Appeal to the Great Spirit, 1906
Bronze with brown patina
31 x 15-1/4 x 19-3/4 inches (78.7 x 38.7 x 50.2 cm)
Foundry: Gorham, ed.
Inscribed: C.H. Humphriss 1906

Auction 652 | Lot: 24029 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $23,900.00
SYDNEY MORTIMER LAURENCE (American 1865-1940)
Northern Lights
Oil on masonite
12 x 16 inches (30.4 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right: Sydney Laurence
Auction 652 | Lot: 24042 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $19,120.00
HENRY CORNELIUS BALINK (American 1882-1963)
Horse Chief Eagle, Ponca Tribe, 1927
Oil on canvas
44-1/2 x 32 inches (113 x 81.3 cm)
Signed lower right: Henry C Balink
Inscribed on reverse: Horse Chief Eagle Ponca Tribe/Painted for Mr. E.W. Marlano/By Henry C. Balink. 1927

Auction 652 | Lot: 24025 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $17,925.00
WILLIAM HERBERT (BUCK) DUNTON (American 1878-1936)
Howling Coyotes, 1909
Watercolor on paper
9-3/4 x 7-1/8 inches (24.7 x 18.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: W. Herbert Dunton / '09

Auction 652 | Lot: 24064 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $17,925.00
LEON GASPARD (Russian-American 1882-1964)
Retreat From Charlois, France, 1915
Pastel on paper
22 x 19 inches (55.9 x 48.3 cm)
Signed lower left: Leon Gaspard/1915 France
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist;
Mr. and Mrs. Emil F. Smrz, Chicago;
Private Collection, Dallas

In a correspondence dated January, 23, 1963, Mrs. Dora Gaspard writes, "This pastel is one of a series Mr. Gaspard did as an artist soldier in the French Air Force in the Battle of Charlois in the First World War. Mr. Gaspard flew many observation flights and was wounded and was sent to the U.S. in 1916 to teach aviation, but still being ill, he went to the Southwest for his health.

"As Mr. Gaspard recalls vaguely, the title would be either Retreat from Charlois or To the Front at the Battle of Charlois.

"As for the price [...] Mr. Gaspard has most of his paintings in his own collection, and only permits the sale of a few a year."

Auction 652 | Lot: 24057 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $14,340.00
HENRY FRANCOIS FARNY (American 1847-1916)
Ogalala Fire, circa 1890-1900
Oil on canvas
11 x 9 inches (27.9 x 22.9 cm)

Henry Farny is renowned as an American illustrator and painter, particularly for his depictions of Native Americans. Farny represented Native Americans as unique individuals through a realistic, highly detailed painting style that reflected his personal admiration for Native American culture. Unlike contemporaries Charles Russell and Frederic Remington, Farny's themes depicted Native Americans in peaceful settings instead of emphasizing the conflicts between the natives and whites. This portrait epitomizes Farny's style between 1890 and 1906, when he produced small, intimate works.

This portrait of Sioux Indian Oglala Fire, a performer in a Wild West show, was executed in Farny's studio in Cinncinati and is stylistically identical to another Farny portrait of a Sioux Indian, Medicine Man, in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Auction 652 | Lot: 24026 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $13,145.00
FRANK TENNEY JOHNSON (American 1874-1939)
New Mexico Landscape, 1918
Oil on panel
7-3/4 x 11 inches (19.7 x 27.9 cm)
Signed and inscribed lower left: Frank Tenney Johnson/1918/Miraflores, NM

Provenance:
Private Collection;
Sold to Bill Riffle, 1963;
Gifted by the artist's widow, Vinnie Johnson, to artist William Krehm

New Mexico Landscape depicts part of the Turquoise Trail near the village of Miraflores, located just south of Santa Fe. Johnson's color palette adopts the same cool tones carried in the name of the subject depicted, accentuated by the Jimez mountains appearing in the distant background.

The artwork was gifted to Johnson's friend, framer and fellow artist William Krehm, by the artist's widow Vinnie Johnson. On the reverse, a signed label by Krehm confirms the painting's authenticity.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24002 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $11,950.00
GENE (ALICE GENEVA) KLOSS (American 1903-1996)
Four works: Apache Women at the Fiesta; Taos Eagle Dancers; Turtle Dance at Sunrise; Street in Taos
Etchings with drypoint
10-7/8 x 14 inches (27.62 x 35.56 cm); 11 x 14-7/8 inches (27.94 x 37.78 cm); 11 x 14 inches (27.94 x 35.56 cm); 5-7/8 x 7 inches (14.92 x 17.78 cm)
All titled lower left and signed lower right in pencil: Gene Kloss, with various numbers in the lower margins, and all inscribed on the reverse with provenance in pencil.

Provenance:
(for Apache Women at the Fiesta; Taos Eagle Dancers; Turtle Dance at Sunrise)
Mrs. Virginia Summers (Wichita Falls, Texas);
Bessie Heard (McKinney, Texas);
Bessie Heard Trust

(Street in Taos)
Stendahl Galleries (Los Angeles, California);
Bessie Heard (McKinney, Texas);
Bessie Heard Trust

(Total: 4 Items)
Auction 652 | Lot: 24072 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $11,950.00
JOSEPH HENRY SHARP (American 1859 - 1953)
La Jolla Breakers
Oil on panel
13-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches (34.3 x 44.5 cm)
Signed lower left: JH Sharp

Provenance:
Paul Mesa (Kalispell, Montana);
Forrest Fenn Collection (Santa Fe, New Mexico);
Estate of the artist

La Jolla Breakers is part of Sharp's California collection. A rare seascape for Sharp, the artwork depicts the California coast near San Diego.

Auction 652 | Lot: 24013 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $10,755.00
ROBERT WOOD (American 1889-1979)
Laguna Beach
Oil on canvas
23-3/4 x 59 inches (60.3 x 149.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Robert Wood
Stamped verso: REPRODUCTION RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE ARTIST/Painted by Robert Wood

Auction 652 | Lot: 24038 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $9,560.00

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WILLIAM HERBERT (BUCK) DUNTON (American 1878-1936)
The Cowhand, 1928
Charcoal on paper
10-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches (image size) (26.03 x 19.05 cm)
Signed lower right: Dunton Taos
Inscribed along the bottom in pencil: The Cowhand. Van Price. Age 37. Born Gainsville, Texas. Has "punched" cows and ridden bronc's since age of eleven years / W. Herbert Dunton Jan 24th, 1928; and on the reverse of the frame, $35.00 / "Tex" by Herbert Dunton of Taos N. Mexico, with a sticker, Heard Museum / #88 Herbert Dunton / Charcoal Drawing / "Tex"

Provenance:
Bessie Heard (McKinney, Texas);
Bessie Heard Trust
Auction 652 | Lot: 24068 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $7,767.50
GLENNA GOODACRE (American b. 1939)
Navajo Woman
Bronze
23-1/2 x 7-3/4 x 5-1/4 inches (59.6 x 19.6 x 13.3 cm)
Signed: G. Goodacre / AP / S

Provenance:
Crow Art Partnership Collection

Texan Glenna Goodacre's bronze sculptures, recognized for possessing lively expression and texture, and intriguing composition; are in countless public, private, municipal and museum collections. Goodacre's most well-known works are the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C. and her numerous bronze portraits of American political figures including Stephen F. Austin, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. Moreover, Goodacre designed the face of the Sacagawea dollar coin 1999 and in 2006, the artist assisted in the design of the U.S. quarter coin representing New Mexico. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards that include the Texas Medal of Art, induction into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame and New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Auction 652 | Lot: 24007 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $5,975.00
ROBERT WOOD (American 1889-1979)
Spring Eternal
Oil on canvas
24-3/4 x 59 inches (62.9 x 149.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Robert Wood
Titled verso: Spring Eternal
Stamped verso: REPRODUCTION RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE ARTIST/Painted by Robert Wood

Auction 652 | Lot: 24039 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $5,975.00
FREMONT F. ELLIS (American 1897-1985)
Placita Allegre
Oil on canvas
15-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches (39.4 x 49.5 cm)
Signed lower left: FREMONT ELLIS

Provenance:
Gift from the artist to the parents of the present owner

Auction 652 | Lot: 24061 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $5,975.00
ROBERT WOOD (American 1889-1979)
Sawkill River, 1964-65
Oil on canvas
24 x 48 inches (61 x 121.9 cm)
Signed lower right: Robert Wood
Inscribed verso: Sawkill River Catkills New York State about 1964 or 1965/This painting was purchased directly from Robert Wood
Stamped verso: REPRODUCTION RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE ARTIST/Painted by Robert Wood

Auction 652 | Lot: 24040 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $5,078.75
TOM LOVELL (American 1909-1997)
Mountain Landscape
Pastel
13-1/4 x 23-1/2 inches (33.7 x 59.7 cm)
Signed lower left, in foliage: T Lovell

Auction 652 | Lot: 24036 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $3,883.75
THOMAS HART BENTON (American 1889-1975)
Shallow Creek, 1939
Lithograph
14-3/8 x 9-3/8 inches (36.2 x 23.5 cm)
Ed. 250
AAA, pub.
Signed lower right in the plate and in pencil: Benton

Provenance:
Private collection (Texas)

Auction 652 | Lot: 24070 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $3,883.75
ROBERT A. DAUGHTERS (American b. 1929)
Poppy Patch, 1981
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left: R. Daughters

Provenance:
Altermann Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Auction 652 | Lot: 24060 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $3,346.00
WILLIAM HERBERT (BUCK) DUNTON (American 1878-1936)
Three works: On the Great Plains (Prong Horn Antelope); The Prospector; The Pueblo Indian Girl, 1931 and 1932
Lithographs
11-3/4 x 10-1/8 inches (26.03 x 19.05 cm); 14-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches (36.83 x 26.67 cm); 14-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches (36.83 x 27.30 cm)
Ed. 42/100; 15/100; 53/100
All titled and numbered lower left, signed in the plate, and signed and dated lower right: Dunton of Taos, above the series; additional inscriptions

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

(Total: 3 Items)
Auction 652 | Lot: 24066 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $3,346.00
THOMAS HART BENTON (American 1889-1975)
Spring Tryout, 1943
Lithograph
9-3/8 x 13-5/8 inches (23.81 x 34.60 cm)
Ed. 250
AAA, pub.
Signed lower left in the plate and lower right in pencil: Benton
Cat. Rais.: Fath, 61

Provenance:
Bessie Heard (McKinney, Texas);
Bessie Heard Trust
Auction 652 | Lot: 24071 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $3,346.00
PAUL DOUGHERTY (American 1877-1947)
Sunlit Peaks
Oil on panel
16-1/4 x 12-3/4 inches (15.9 x 42.4 cm)
Signed lower left: Paul Dougherty

Provenance:
The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

Auction 652 | Lot: 24044 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $2,868.00
WILLIAM HERBERT (BUCK) DUNTON (American 1878-1936)
The Old Timer, 1928
Charcoal on paper
10-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches, image size (26.03 x 19.05 cm)
Signed lower right: Dunton of Taos
Inscribed along the bottom in pencil: The Old Timer. Model. Chapman Ballard. Born in Missouri 1850.; on the board, W. Herbert Dunton Feb 29th, 1928; and on the reverse of the frame, $35.00 / Charcoal drawing by W. Herbert Dunton of Taos New Mexico / "Old Scout" or "Old TImer", with a sticker, Heard Museum / #89 Herbert Dunton / Charcoal Drawing / "Old Scout"

Provenance:
Bessie Heard (McKinney, Texas);
Bessie Heard Trust
Auction 652 | Lot: 24067 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $2,868.00
WILLIAM JAMES GLACKENS (American 1870-1938)
Col. Roosevelt and Rough Riders Charge
Colored pencil on paper
11-1/2 x 15-1/2 inches (29.2 x 39.4 cm)

Auction 652 | Lot: 24065 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $2,629.00

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CURT WALTERS (American b.1950)
Shiprock
Oil on canvas
24 x 48 inches (60.96 x 121.92 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Curt Walters '74
Inscribed on the stretcher: Shiprock

Curt Walters is well known for his environmentally conscious depictions of the Grand Canyon and surrounding Arizona and New Mexico environs. Walters often depicts the same locations over and over again in his paintings, thus tracking any change or deterioration. This composition of Shiprock, a volcanic remnant, considered sacred to the Navajo, has been a repeated subject for the artist.
Auction 652 | Lot: 24048 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $2,390.00
PETER HURD (American 1904-1984)
The Windmill Crew
Lithograph
16-1/2 x 12-1/4 inches (41.91 x 31.15 cm)
Ed. 30/40
Signed lower right in the plate and in pencil: Peter Hurd,
Titled and numbered lower left, and inscribed with numbers in the margin

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

Auction 652 | Lot: 24073 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $2,390.00
RAMON KELLY (American b. 1939)
Swimming Hole, 1973
Oil on panel
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Ramon Kelley 73
Signed and titled verso, upper right: Swimming Hole/Mex./Ramon Kelley

Auction 652 | Lot: 24006 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $1,792.50
CONRAD BUFF (American 1886-1975)
Untitled (Southwest Landscape)
Oil on board
15-1/2 x 23-1/2 inches (39.4 x 59.7 cm)
Signed lower right: Conrad Buff

Auction 652 | Lot: 24046 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $1,673.00

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$2,510 or more
TOM PHILLIPS (American b. 1927)
Cowboy Watcher
Watercolor on paper
20 x 28 inches (50.8 x 71.1 cm)
Signed lower right: ©Tom Phillips

Auction 652 | Lot: 24050 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $1,553.50
FREMONT F. ELLIS (American 1897 - 1985)
Untitled, circa 1957
Watercolor on paper
5 x 6 inches (12.7 x 15.2 cm)

Provenance:
Gift from the artist to the parents of the present owner

Auction 652 | Lot: 24063 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $1,493.75
JOSEPH ROY WILLIS (American 1876-1960)
Taos School
Mixed media on paper
16 x 10 inches (40.6 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower right: J.R. Willis

Auction 652 | Lot: 24005 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $1,434.00
THEODORE KAUFMANN (American 1814-1887)
Untitled
Pastel on paper laid on board
15-1/4 x 23-1/2 inches (38.73 x 59.69 cm)
Signed lower right Th Kaufmann

Auction 652 | Lot: 24054 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $1,434.00
FREMONT F. ELLIS (American 1897 - 1985)
Orchard after Shower, March 1957
Watercolor on paper
5 x 6 inches (12.7 x 15.2 cm)
Titled and date on lower edge

Provenance:
Gift from the artist to the parents of the present owner

Auction 652 | Lot: 24062 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $567.63
HOWARD CONNOLLY (American b.1903)
The Posse
Oil on canvas
23-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches (59.7 x 44.5 cm)
Signed lower right: Howard Connolly
Titled on stretcher

Auction 652 | Lot: 24051 | May 25, 2007

Sold For: $388.38

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