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36001
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, 1932
Start Price: 500.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
REDLINGER
Billy the Kid, 1932
Book, Graphite on paper
10-1/2 x 8 inches (26.7 x 20.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Frank Redlinger was fascinated by the legend of Billy the Kid. "The Kid" was little known when alive, but became legendary after his killer, Sheriff Patrick Garrett, published the wildly popular book, The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. From this starting point, the Kid became one of the legendary figures of the American Old West. Hollywood has had a particular fascination with Billy the Kid, starting with the 1930 film, Bill the Kid, directed by King Vidor. In 1938, Roy Rogers played dual roles in Bill the Kid Returns. In 1941, the original 1930 film was remade with Robert Taylor and Brian Don Levy starring, and in 1943, Howard Hughes released the film, The Outlaw. Since that time, dozens of films have been based on the legend of Billy the Kid. Similarly, musicians have drawn on the legend, from Bon Jovi, to Bob Dylan, to early 1900 ballads of Billy. This Billy the Kid book by Frank Redlinger was intended to be published. Each drawing was to be an individual linoleum block print. There are 126 drawings, and 22 pages of descriptions/annotations for the individual plates.
Tragically, Redlinger died before completing his project and only one woodblock, Redlinger's own self-portrait, seems to be completed.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank Redlinger
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36002
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 280.00High Bid: 400.00Estimate: 50.00 - 150.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Grand Canyon, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on paper
9 x 6-1/2 inches (22.9 x 16.5 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Tear to left margin outside of image area. Unframed.
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36003
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 325.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Bucking Bronc, early 1930s
Gouache on artistboard
14-1/4 x 12-1/4 inches (36.2 x 31.1 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
A fantastic action-filled gouache of a bucking bronc and rider.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Losses in sky mainly to blue pigment. Small stain near horses leg, one-inch scratch to right side. Unframed.
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36004
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 45.00High Bid: 45.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Desert Scene, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
4 x 5-3/4 inches (10.2 x 14.6 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36005
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 42.00High Bid: 60.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Mountain Lake, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
4 x 6 inches (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36006
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 20.00High Bid: 90.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Desert at Night, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
4 x 3 inches (10.2 x 7.6 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Two small pinholes. Creases outside of image area. Unframed.
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36007
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 55.00High Bid: 110.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
7-1/2 x 5 inches (19.1 x 12.7 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36008
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 48.00High Bid: 48.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Yuccas in Silhouette, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
3-1/4 x 4-1/2 inches (8.3 x 11.4 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition; wrinkles at margins outside of image area. Unframed.
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36009
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, 1932
Start Price: 70.00High Bid: 100.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Desert Caravan, 1932
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
4 x 6 inches (10.2 x 15.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
A stunning woodblock of a camel caravan in the desert.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36010
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, 1932
Start Price: 20.00High Bid: 190.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Christmas Greetings, 1932
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
5-1/4 x 6 inches (13.3 x 15.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
This three-color linoleum block print was made by Frank Redlinger for his sister to be used for Christmas cards.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36011
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 130.00High Bid: 150.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
4-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches (11.4 x 17.1 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: There are several small pinhole losses to the paper. Unframed.
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36012
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, 1932
Start Price: 220.00High Bid: 220.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Reflections in the River, 1932
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches (14.0 x 8.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36013
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 45.00High Bid: 150.00Estimate: 50.00 - 150.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Untitled Lone Pine, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
6-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches (16.5 x 14.0 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Minor creases outside of image area. Unframed.
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36014
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, 1932
Start Price: 350.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 50.00 - 150.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Camelback Mt., 1932
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
8-3/4 x 11 inches (22.2 x 27.9 cm)
Signed lower left
A highly-stylized color-block print of the famous Arizona landmark.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36015
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 45.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 50.00 - 150.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Funeral Range Death Valley, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
8-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (21.6 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower left
This color linoleum block print is from a vantage point on the floor of Death Valley where the temperature can exceed 120 degrees.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36016
FRANK REDLINGER, Estate of Frank Redlinger
Start Price: 350.00High Bid: 450.00Estimate: 50.00 - 150.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Evening in the Desert, 1933
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
5-1/2 x 14-1/4 inches (14.0 x 36.2 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
A wonderful color rendition of evening light in the desert. The rich greens of the foreground is the result of layering yellow ink over an underprinting of blue ink.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36017
FRANK REDLINGER, Early Texas Art, early 1930s
Start Price: 200.00High Bid: 280.00Estimate: 50.00 - 150.00
FRANK REDLINGER (1909-1936)
Sunset Hollywood Hills, early 1930s
Color linoleum block print on Japanese tissue
8 x 10-1/2 inches (20.3 x 26.7 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter from the Estate of Frank Redlinger
A fine and technically accomplished color-block print with wonderful color tonalities. The richly-colored clouds are a result of layering blue over orange. The lively blue sky is a result of layering blue over a gold-hued ink. The blues of the sky are pulled together by the rich dark blue of the hills.
Provenance:
Estate of Frank RedlingerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36018
MARGARET CARRUTH SCRUGGS, Texas Art
Start Price: 50.00High Bid: 70.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
MARGARET CARRUTH SCRUGGS (1892-1988)
The Bridge Nokomis, 1925
Etching on paper
5-1/2 x 7 inches (14.0 x 17.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36019
MARGARET CARRUTH SCRUGGS, TX Art etching
Start Price: 47.00High Bid: 45.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
MARGARET CARRUTH SCRUGGS (1892-1988)
Along the Trinity River, Nov. 1925
Etching on paper
7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition with very faint foxing in margins. Image area okay. Unframed.
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36020
MARGARET CARRUTH SCRUGGS, TX Art etching, 1926
Start Price: 47.00High Bid: 45.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
MARGARET CARRUTH SCRUGGS (1892-1988)
#1 Greetings, 1926
Etching on paper
5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches (14.0 x 8.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36021
FRANK KLEPPER, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 50.00High Bid: 110.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
FRANK KLEPPER (1890-1952)
Salt Creek Galveston
Etching on paper
6-1/2 x 7 inches (16.5 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Toning of paper. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36022
BLANCHE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Untitled Fence Line
Etching on paper
4 x 3 inches (10.2 x 7.6 cm)
Signed lower right
A rare and early Blanche McVeigh etching.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36023
BLANCHE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 150.00Estimate: 300.00 - 600.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
A Tree by the Road
Etching on paper
5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
A rare and early Blanche McVeigh etching.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36024
Early Texas Art, etching, The Alamo
Start Price: 65.00High Bid: 140.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
UNKNOWN
The Alamo
Etching on paper
8 x 6 inches (20.3 x 15.2 cm)
Unidentified monogram in plate at lower left
Condition Report: General toning to paper, otherwise in excellent condition. Unframed.
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36025
RUBY PERKINS, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 50.00High Bid: 50.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
RUBY PERKINS (dec.)
Retreat
Etching on paper
5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Inscribed verso:
First lesson at Crozier evening school (Old Bryan H.S.) with Frank KlepperCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36026
REVEAU BASSETT, Early Texas Art, litho, 1940
Start Price: 150.00High Bid: 280.00Estimate: 150.00 - 250.00
REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Eleven O'Clock Flight, 1940
Lithograph
9-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches (24.1 x 29.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Good condition with overall toning to the paper. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36027
REVEAU BASSETT, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 475.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Untitled
Lithograph on paper
10 x 13-1/2 inches (25.4 x 34.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36028
REVEAU BASSETT, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 120.00Estimate: 150.00 - 250.00
REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Eleven O'Clock Flight
Lithograph on paper
9 x 11-1/2 inches (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Poor condition. Light faded area at top of print. Mat burn at margins. Period frame in good condition.
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36029
HARRY ANTHONY DEYOUNG, Early Texas Art
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 95.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
HARRY ANTHONY DEYOUNG (1893-1956)
Untitled
Pencil on paper
7 x 8 inches (17.8 x 20.3 cm)
Signed lower center
Inscribed:
To Mrs. Raymond Willis with sincere good wishes for much health and happiness. Sincerely, Harry Anthony DeYoung.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36030
COREEN SPELLMAN (1905-1978) Building,
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 325.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
COREEN SPELLMAN (1905-1978)
Building, 1931
Mezzotint on paper
4 x 5 inches (10.2 x 12.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
An early and rare print by Coreen Spellman.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36031
MARY LIGHTFOOT, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
MARY LIGHTFOOT (1889-1970)
First Church
Lithograph on paper
12-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches (32.4 x 26.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36032
MARY LIGHTFOOT, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 100.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
MARY LIGHTFOOT (1889-1970)
Colorado Landscape
Lithograph on paper
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Good overall condition with toning of the image area. Unframed.
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36033
BLANCE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 400.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Virginia City, Mont.
Etching and aquatint on paper
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
In 1863, gold was discovered in the area now named Virginia City. Within weeks, the town had grown into a lawless city of over 10,000 inhabitants. It's most notable citizen was Calamity Jane. By 1930, Virginia City was a ghost town. It is now operated as a National Historic Landmark and open-air museum.Condition Report: Excellent condition with some staining in the margins. Unframed.
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36034
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, litho, mid 1930s
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 150.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Passing Storm, mid 1930s
Lithograph on paper
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and titled lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36035
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art lithograph, 1936
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 150.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Gathering Storm, 1936
Lithograph on paper
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
The WPA mural projects are widely known, but lesser known was the Treasury Department Art Project, which employed artists to produce easel paintings, sculptures, and prints. Lloyd Goff joined the project as a staff artist in 1934. As evidenced by the inscription on this lithograph, it was produced by Goff for the Treasury Department Art Project.
Inscribed: Lent by the Treasury Department Art Project
Inscribed on mat: not to be sold
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition with slight overall toning. Matted/unframed.
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36036
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art litho, mid-1930s
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 375.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Mid-West (Texas Farmhouse), mid 1930s
Lithograph on paper
7 x 11-1/2 inches (17.8 x 29.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Signed and titled verso
An accomplished lithograph of a depression-era farm, with rich levels of grayscale and scratched back highlights in the stone.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36037
PETER HURD, Lithograph
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
PETER HURD (1904-1984)
The Waterhole
Lithograph on paper
7-3/4 x 13-3/4 inches (19.7 x 34.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36038
THOMAS HART BENTON, Early Texas Art, litho, '41
Start Price: 1,300.00High Bid: 1,300.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
THOMAS HART BENTON (1889-1975)
Sunset, 1941
Lithograph on paper
10 x 13 inches (25.4 x 33.0 cm)
Signed lower right
This Benton lithograph is in the catalog raisonné for Thomas Hart Benton prints; Fath #43
Provenance:
C. J. & M. L. Larson CollectionCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36039
TOM LEA, Texas Art, color lithograph
Start Price: 160.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
TOM LEA (1907-2007)
Trail Herd
Color lithograph on paper
10-1/2 x 14 inches (26.7 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right in the plate
This lithograph is after the painting of the same title, Trail Herd, 1941.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36040
TOM LEA, Texas Art, color lithograph
Start Price: 100.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
TOM LEA (1907-2007)
The Shining Plain
Color lithograph on paper
12 x 13-1/2 inches (30.5 x 34.3 cm)
Signed lower right in plate
This color lithograph is after the painting, Shining Path, painted by Tom Lea in 1947.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36041
TOM LEA, Texas Art, color lithograph
Start Price: 100.00High Bid: 125.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
TOM LEA (1907-2007)
Ranger Escort West of the Pecos
Color lithograph on paper
9-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches (24.1 x 34.9 cm)
Signed lower right in the plate
This lithograph is after the painting of the same title, Ranger Escort West of the Pecos, 1965.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition.
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36042
PETER HURD, Texas Art, color lithograph
Start Price: 75.00High Bid: 170.00Estimate: 150.00 - 300.00
PETER HURD (1904-1984)
Untitled Ranch Scene
Color lithograph on paper
15-1/2 x 22 inches (39.4 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower left in plate
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36043
ALEXANDRE HOGUE, Early Texas Art, print, 1928
Start Price: 650.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
ALEXANDRE HOGUE (1898-1994)
Into the Mist, 1928
Color-woodblock print on paper
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
This color-woodblock print exists in at least two different color variations.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New framed in excellent condition.
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36044
CARROLL CLOAR, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
CARROLL CLOAR (1913-1994)
Texas Store, 1930s to 1940s
Lithograph on paper
10 x 12-3/4 inches (25.4 x 32.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Carroll Cloar was born in Arkansas. After attending Southwestern, as well as the James Lee Art Academy in Memphis, he moved to New York as a cartoonist. While in New York he took classes at the Art Students League with regionalists Arnold Blanche and William McNulty. He soon discovered he was not meant to be a cartoonist, but that he had a talent for lithography. He moved out west and finally to Mexico. Wherever he was, Cloar's art was about rural life, rural folks, old buildings, the South, and the Southwest.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36045
J. J. MCVICKER, aquatint on paper
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 1,700.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
J. J. MCVICKER (1911-2004)
Oklahoma Twilight
Aquatint on paper
9-3/4 x 16 inches (24.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled center
A superb aquatint by J. J. McVicker. The rich tonalities and sharp definition in this print show McVicker's talent in the aquatint medium.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36046
FLORENCE MCCLUNG, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,200.00
FLORENCE MCCLUNG (1894-1992)
The Cornhusker
Lithograph on paper
11-3/4 x 17 inches (29.8 x 43.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
An oversized lithograph and an especially fine image.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36047
WILLIAM LESTER, Early Texas Art, litho, 1941
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 3,500.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
WILLIAM LESTER (1910-1991)
Squatters Hut, 1941
Lithograph on paper
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
A very desirable lithograph by William Lester and even more so since this is print number one of thirty!
Exhibited/Literature:
Dallas Museum of Art, 1986, Lone Star Regionalism The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, by Rick Stewart, p. 176Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36048
JERRY BYWATERS, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
JERRY BYWATERS (1906-1989)
Ranch Hand and Pony
Lithograph on paper
10 x 13 inches (25.4 x 33.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36049
JERRY BYWATERS, Early Texas Art, print
Start Price: 280.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
JERRY BYWATERS (1906-1989)
Arriero
Woodblock print on paper
6 x 8 inches (15.2 x 20.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New framed in excellent condition.
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36050
OTIS DOZIER, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 675.00High Bid: 3,500.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
OTIS DOZIER (1904-1987)
Jack Rabbits
Lithograph on paper
10-1/2 x 13 inches (26.7 x 33.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
One of Otis Dozier's iconic depression-era lithographs.
Exhibited/Literature:
Dallas Museum of Art, 1986, Lone Star Regionalism The Dallas Nine and Their Circle, by Rick Stewart, p. 166Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36051
PERRY NICHOLS, Early Texas Art, litho, 1930s
Start Price: 340.00High Bid: 340.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
PERRY NICHOLS (1911-1992)
Post Oak, 1930s
Lithograph on paper
7 x 9 inches (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Estate stamp verso
Provenance:
Estate of Perry NicholsCondition Report: Water stain to middle of print. Unframed.
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36052
EVERETT SPRUCE, Early Texas Art, print, 1935
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 490.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
EVERETT SPRUCE (1908-2002)
Waterfall, 1935
Woodblock print on paper
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
A rare Spruce print with a small edition size of five.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36053
REID CROWEL, Early Texas Art, block print
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 145.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
REID CROWELL (1911-1991)
Old Mexican Woman
Block print on paper
8-1/2 x 6 inches (21.6 x 15.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36054
HAZEL MCGRAW, Early Texas Art, block print
Start Price: 70.00High Bid: 70.00Estimate: 150.00 - 250.00
HAZEL MCGRAW (1897-dec.)
Thro' a Nightmare
Block print on paper
6 x 4 inches (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Hazel McGraw studied with Merritt Mauzey, Frank Klepper, and Harry Anthony DeYoung. She was a member of the Texas Printmakers during the 1940s. This print pays homage to, The Scream, by Edvard Munch.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36055
CONSTANCE FORSYTH, Early Texas Art, aquatint
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 190.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
CONSTANCE FORSYTH (1903-1987)
Evening Clouds
Aquatint on paper
10 x 14-1/2 inches (25.4 x 36.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Constance Forsyth joined the University of Texas Art Department in 1940, where she helped develop the printmaking program. Forsyth was noted for her semi-abstract prints of natural forms, especially clouds.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36056
BROR UTTER, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 325.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
BROR UTTER (1913-1993)
Wild Beast
Etching and aquatint on paper
7 x 5 inches (17.8 x 12.7 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
A rare and desirable Bror Utter print from the prime period of the Fort Worth Circle.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36057
BLANCHE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, etching, 1945
Start Price: 425.00High Bid: 425.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Gwine to Heaven, 1945
Etching and aquatint on paper
15 x 7 inches (38.1 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Blanche McVeigh's most famous print is based on her impressions of a Negro spiritual. Gwine to Heaven was awarded the Lila May Chapman prize of the Southern States Art League and was included in the book, American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century. It was invited the same year to a special print show at the Carnegie Institute. It was also selected as a purchase for inclusion in the Pennell Fund Exhibit at the Library of Congress. The print was exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association, Dallas Print Club, Society of American Etchers, Prairie Print Makers, and the California Print Club.
Exhibited:
Southern States Art League (prize), Carnegie Institute, Library of Congress-Pennell Fund Purchase, Laguna Beach Art Association, Dallas Print Club, Society of American Etchers, Prairie Print Makers, California Print ClubCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36058
BLANCHE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, aquatint
Start Price: 400.00High Bid: 425.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Accepted
Aquatint on paper
12 x 8-1/2 inches (30.5 x 21.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This print is one of the best known in Blanche McVeigh's oeuvre.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36059
BLANCHE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 400.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Shoutin' Sister
Etching and aquatint on paper
11 x 8 inches (27.9 x 20.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This rare aquatint of a Negro spiritual exhibits rich variations of blacks, grays, and whites, revealing Blanche McVeigh's genius in the medium.Condition Report: Excellent condition with very slight staining in the margins. Unframed.
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36060
BLANCE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, etching
Start Price: 400.00High Bid: 425.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Backyard Barber
Etching and aquatint on paper
9 x 7 inches (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This rare and desirable print has a small edition size of twenty-five.Condition Report: Excellent condition with some light staining in the margins. Unframed.
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36061
BLANCHE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, aquatint
Start Price: 725.00High Bid: 725.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,200.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Sisters
Aquatint on paper
12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36062
BLANCHE MCVEIGH, Early Texas Art, color etching
Start Price: 400.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
BLANCHE MCVEIGH (1895-1970)
Church Arroyo Seco
Color etching and aquatint on paper
9-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (24.1 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
A rare and exceptional color aquatint. This impression is clean and crisp with excellent color definition. A true testament to McVeigh's printmaking skills.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36063
VERDA LIGON, Early Texas Art, colored litho, 30s
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 100.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
VERDA LIGON (1902-1970)
Gloxinia, 1930s
Hand-colored lithograph on paper
15 x 12 inches (38.1 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36064
VERDA LIGON, Early Texas Art, colored litho, 30s
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 100.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
VERDA LIGON (1902-1970)
Plantation Lily, 1930s
Hand-colored lithograph on paper
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Condition Report: Faint mat burn at margins. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36065
E. M. "BUCK" SCHIWETZ, Early Texas Art, lithos
Start Price: 36.00High Bid: 190.00Estimate: 75.00 - 150.00
E. M. "BUCK" SCHIWETZ (1898-1984)
Six Spanish Missions in Texas -- A Portfolio of Paintings by E. M. Schiwetz, 1968
Lithograph
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed in plate
Six-lithograph series published by the University of Texas Press with historical notes by Robert S. Weddle.
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36066
E. M. "BUCK" SCHIWETZ, Early Texas Art, 1979
Start Price: 20.00High Bid: 130.00Estimate: 40.00 - 80.00
E. M. "BUCK" SCHIWETZ (1898-1984)
The Katzer Store Westhoff, TX, 1979
Offset lithograph on paper
10 x 17 inches (25.4 x 43.2 cm)
Signed in plate
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36067
JOSE CISNEROS, Early Texas Art etchings
Start Price: 33.00High Bid: 33.00Estimate: 75.00 - 150.00
JOSE CISNEROS (b. 1910)
Untitled Portfolio with Three Prints by Jose Cisneros
Etching on paper
20 x 15 inches (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower left
Three signed prints from the portfolio titled: Five Drawings by Jose Cisneros -- A Tribute to the Southwestern Horse Soldier. Includes Spanish Conquistador, U. S. Army Corporal, and U. S. Army Private.Condition Report: Very minor stain on two prints. Unframed.
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36068
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 400.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1903-1982)
Untitled Art Class
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower center
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36069
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY, Early Texas Art, o/burlap
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 100.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1903-1982)
Still Life, 1930s to 1940s
Oil on burlap
32 x 18 inches (81.3 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Josephine MahaffeyCondition Report: Excellent original condition. Period frame in good condition.
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36070
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 70.00High Bid: 80.00Estimate: 150.00 - 200.00
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1903-1982)
Untitled Still Life, 1930s to 1940s
Oil on artistboard
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
An early Josephine Mahaffey still life, thick with impasto.
Provenance:
Estate of Josephine MahaffeyCondition Report: Excellent original condition. Frame in good condition.
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36071
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 95.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1903-1982)
Untitled Floral Still Life
Oil and watercolor on heavy Japanese tissue
25-1/2 x 20 inches (64.8 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Josephine MahaffeyCondition Report: Repaired tear, otherwise in excellent condition. Unframed.
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36072
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY, Early Texas Art, wc
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 95.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1903-1982)
Untitled Floral Still Life
Oil and watercolor on heavy Japanese tissue
25-1/2 x 20 inches (64.8 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Josephine MahaffeyCondition Report: Repaired tear, otherwise in excellent condition. Unframed.
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36073
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 95.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
JOSEPHINE MAHAFFEY (1903-1982)
Untitled Floral Still Life
Oil and watercolor on heavy Japanese tissue
25-1/2 x 20 inches (64.8 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Estate of Josephine MahaffeyCondition Report: Repaired tear, otherwise in excellent condition. Unframed.
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36074
ELECTRA MALONE, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 145.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
ELECTRA MALONE (dec. 1992)
Untitled Floral
Oil on masonite
6 x 4 inches (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36075
LOLA MUELLER, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 95.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
LOLA MUELLER (1889-1949)
Untitled Still Life with Fruit and Autumn Leaves
Watercolor on paper
18 x 13-1/2 inches (45.7 x 34.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36076
MARY THOMPSON, Early Texas Art
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 140.00Estimate: 150.00 - 300.00
MARY THOMPSON (1912-2001)
Japonica Camillas
Watercolor on paper
15-1/2 x 14 inches (39.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
Mary Thompson was the younger sister of Catherine McKinley Smith.
Provenance:
Family of Catherine McKinley SmithCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36077
DONALD VOGEL, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1945
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 375.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
DONALD VOGEL (1917-2004)
Zoo Scene, 1945
Watercolor on paper
15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.9 cm)
Unsigned, Valley House Gallery label and inventory number verso
An early Donald Vogel watercolor.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36078
AMY JACKSON, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 150.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
AMY JACKSON (1903-1970)
Untitled
Watercolor on paper
16 x 11-1/2 inches (40.6 x 29.2 cm)
Signed lower left and lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36079
WILLIAM HENRY EARLE, Texas Art, acrylic
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 250.00 - 500.00
WILLIAM HENRY EARLE (b. 1925)
Untitled Chapel in the Woods
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Trained at the Art Students League, William Henry Earle is a master teacher conducting painting workshops and seminars across Texas and the Southwest.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present owner at a William Henry Earle painting workshopCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36080
MILFORD ZORNES, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 375.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,200.00
MILFORD ZORNES (b. 1908)
Loretto, 1955
Watercolor
13 x 25 inches (33.0 x 63.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed and titled verso
Milford Zornes is an important California artist born in Oklahoma. Zornes moved west to California in the Dust Bowl years. He was awarded the El Campo, Texas, WPA Post Office Mural commission in 1939. He continued to paint for and exhibit in Texas venues.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36081
DAHLIA WOODS, Texas Art, acrylic/canvas
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
DAHLIA WOODS (living)
Mission Espada 1731, 2007
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 48 inches (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Dahlia Woods has been painting a series called Missions of San Antonio. Her paintings are exuberant, spontaneous, and filled with bold color.
Provenance:
Dahlia Woods GalleryCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36082
MILFORD ZORNES, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1965
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 375.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
MILFORD ZORNES (b. 1908)
The Rio Grande, 1965
Watercolor on paper
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed and titled verso
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36083
ROBERT DELEON, Texas Art, o/c, 1984
Start Price: 110.00High Bid: 350.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
ROBERT DELEON (b. 1953)
Desert Critter, 1984
Oil on canvas
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36084
MARY THOMPSON, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 115.00High Bid: 110.00Estimate: 150.00 - 250.00
MARY THOMPSON (1912-2001)
No Way, Jose
Oil on masonite
24 x 18 inches (61.0 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
Following in her two older sisters (Frances McKinley and Catherine McKinley Smith) footprints, Mary Thompson began to paint around 1973. She was an active member of the Vivian Aunspaugh Art Club, the Frank Reaugh Art Club, Southwest Watercolor Society, the Irving Art Association, and the National League of American Pen Women.
Mary Thompson's dry sense of humor shows through in the title of this painting, No Way, Jose.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36085
ALFONSO ESTRADA, Texas Art, oil pastel, 1999
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 200.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
ALFONSO ESTRADA (living)
Purepecha Potter, 1999
Oil pastel on paper
14 x 20 inches (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
Provenance:
Dahlia Woods GalleryCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36086
DONALD J. MITCHELL , Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 95.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
DONALD J. MITCHELL (dec.)
Untitled
Watercolor on paper
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Donald J. Mitchell was a member of the Southwest Watercolor Society. A book titled, Profile of Dallas: Love Affair with a City, was published by Turtle Creek Gallery in 1981 with 336 pages containing watercolors by Mitchell and graphite sketches by Bud Biggs.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36087
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/ab
Start Price: 300.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Wine Glass and Green Grapes Miniature
Oil on artistboard
1-1/4 x 1 inches (3.2 x 2.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36088
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/ab
Start Price: 300.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Brandy Snifter and Cherries Miniature
Oil on artistboard
1-1/2 x 1-1/4 inches (3.8 x 3.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Remarkable!
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36089
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/ab
Start Price: 300.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Oranges Miniature
Oil on artistboard
1-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches (3.8 x 3.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition
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36090
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 300.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Wine Glass and Apple Miniature
Oil on canvasboard
1-1/2 x 1-1/4 inches (3.8 x 3.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36091
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 350.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Texas Coastal Scene Miniature
Oil on canvasboard
1 x 2-3/4 inches (2.5 x 7.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36092
DALHART WINDBERG , Early Texas Art, o/ab
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 400.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Landscape Miniature
Oil on artistboard
2 x 1-1/2 inches (5.1 x 3.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition.
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36093
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/ab
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape Miniature
Oil on artistboard
1-3/4 x 2-1/2 inches (4.4 x 6.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36094
EMMA DILLARD, Early Texas Art, oil/cb
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 350.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
EMMA DILLARD (1879-1968)
The Gate
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Emma Dillard studied with Frank Klepper, Frank Reaugh, and Vivian Aunspaugh. She exhibited at the Fort Worth Annual, Aunspaugh Art Club, Dallas Allied Arts, Frank Reaugh Art Club, and the Klepper Art Club.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36095
EMMA DILLARD, Early Texas Art, oil/cb
Start Price: 150.00High Bid: 425.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
EMMA DILLARD (1879-1968)
The Gate
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 7-1/2 inches (25.4 x 19.1 cm)
Signed lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36096
EMMA DILLARD, Early Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 475.00Estimate: 600.00 - 800.00
EMMA DILLARD (1879-1968)
Untitled Fall Landscape with Creek
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36097
MARILYN EITZEN, Early Texas Art, acrylic/canvas
Start Price: 500.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
MARILYN EITZEN (living)
The Last Autumn
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower left
This tree was located near the creek on Sleepy Lane in Dallas, Texas. It died shortly after it was painted and hence the title.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36098
NELL MOSELEY, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 90.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
NELL MOSELEY (dec.)
Untitled Autumn Landscape
Oil on paperboard
6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
Signed lower left
Nell Moseley was actively exhibiting from 1923 to 1937 at the Annual Texas Artists Exhibition in Fort Worth. In 1927, one of her paintings was chosen for the Davis Wildflower Competition.
Condition Report: Excellent original condition but would benefit from a light cleaning. Unframed.
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36099
ATTRB. TO REVEAU BASSETT, Texas Art pastel
Start Price: 280.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
ATTRIBUTED TO REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Untitled Landscape
Pastel on #3 sandpaper
7 x 9 inches (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Unsigned
This attribution is based on style, materials (grit sandpaper), and the doodles in the margins of the pastel, which are characteristic of Bassett.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36100
BOWIE MOORE, Early Texas Art, gouache
Start Price: 47.00High Bid: 60.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
BOWIE MOORE (dec.)
Untitled Landscape
Gouache on paper
16 x 22 inches (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Bowie Moore was a San Antonio artist.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36101
CATHERINE MCKINLEY SMITH, Early Texas w/c
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 140.00Estimate: 150.00 - 300.00
CATHERINE MCKINLEY SMITH (1908-1990)
White Rock Lake
Watercolor on paper
14-1/2 x 21 inches (36.8 x 53.3 cm)
Signed lower right
White Rock Lake was a favorite spot for Catherine McKinley Smith to paint.
Provenance:
Family of Catherine McKinley SmithCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36102
CATHERINE MCKINLEY SMITH, Early Texas o/cb, 1933
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 250.00 - 500.00
CATHERINE MCKINLEY SMITH (1908-1990)
June in Texas, 1933
Oil on canvasboard
18 x 23 inches (45.7 x 58.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Provenance:
Family of Catherine McKinley Smith
Exhibited:
Country Store Gallery (label attached verso)Condition Report: Excellent original condition, however painting would benefit from a surface cleaning (yellowed varnish). Period frame in excellent condition.
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36103
KATHRYNE HAIL TRAVIS, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 47.00High Bid: 50.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
KATHRYNE HAIL TRAVIS (1894-1972)
Three Forked Tree Near High Rolls, NM
Watercolor on paper
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
In 1960, Kathryne Hail Travis left Dallas and moved to Ruidoso, New Mexico. She held summer classes in the area for three years. She continued to paint and teach from her Ruidoso gallery and studio until the time of her death.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36104
MILFORD ZORNES, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 850.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,600.00
MILFORD ZORNES (b. 1908)
The Golden Hill
Watercolor on paper
9-1/2 x 22 inches (24.1 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36105
HENRY EINFELDT, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1944
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 280.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
HENRY EINFELDT (1873-1952)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape, 1944
Oil on canvasboard
14 x 19-1/2 inches (35.6 x 49.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36106
BELLE AUSTIN, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 200.00High Bid: 200.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
BELLE AUSTIN (1880-1980)
Untitled Bluebonnets, Paintbrushes, and Prickly Pear
Oil on canvasboard
11 x 16-1/2 inches (27.9 x 41.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Minor pinpoint losses. Period frame in fair condition.
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36107
RUDOLPH KOKES, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1934
Start Price: 47.00High Bid: 50.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
RUDOLPH KOKES (dec.)
Woodlawn Hills, San Antonio, 1934
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled lower right
Condition Report: Good condition, however would improve with a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36108
MINNIE KING, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 50.00High Bid: 110.00Estimate: 100.00 - 200.00
MINNIE KING (b. 1877)
Untitled Bluebonnets
Oil on canvas
17-3/4 x 21-1/2 inches (45.1 x 54.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Condition Report: Cracking of paint in sky. Painting would benefit from a surface cleaning. Period frame in good condition; some losses of paint to lower part of frame.
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36109
JANET DOWNIE, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 300.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
JANET DOWNIE (1854-1944)
Untitled Bluebonnet
Pastel on paper
3-1/2 x 6 inches (8.9 x 15.2 cm)
Janet Downie Studio label attached verso
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36110
SOLOMON OSBORNE, Early Texas Art, before 1899
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 475.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
SOLOMON OSBORNE (dec.)
Solomon & Alma Osborne 1893 Lula Born 1889, before 1899
Pencil and colored chalk on paper
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower center
This charming Texas primitive folk art is done by an unknown artist, but dates before the turn of the century. There are two pages from an 1899 newspaper backing the drawing.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36111
SHEPPERO, Early Texas Art, oil, 30s to 40s
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 475.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
SHEPPERO (dec.)
Untitled Power Plant and Dam, 1930s to 1940s
Oil on artistboard
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower left
This charming Texas primitive painting was found in the Marble Falls area and may depict a dam on the Colorado River.Condition Report: Excellent original condition. Would improve with a light surface cleaning. Unframed.
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36112
OPAL HAMON, Early Texas Art, oil/ab
Start Price: 725.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
OPAL HAMON (dec.)
Untitled
Oil on artistboard
15 x 24 inches (38.1 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
A colorful primitive folk art painting of Longhorn's grazing, two cowboys camping, and a friendly neighbor.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition
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36113
MAILIN, Folk Art Walking Stick
Start Price: 145.00High Bid: 220.00Estimate: 150.00 - 250.00
MAILIN (dec.)
Untitled Folk Art Walking Stick
Wood
36 x 1 x 1 inches (91.4 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm)
Signed
Folk art walking stick with carved symbols including, snake, evil eye, arrows, spider, stars, moon, smiling face, and lightening bolt.
Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36114
Stockmens Convention Souvenir Shell,
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 175.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
UNKNOWN
Stockmens Convention Souvenir Shell, 1899
4 x 2 x 3 inches (10.2 x 5.1 x 7.6 cm)
Unsigned
Shell with carved Longhorn head reads: Stockmens Convention, Fort Worth, March 14th 1899Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36115
ALLITA CLARK, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 650.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
ALLITA CLARK (dec.)
Untitled
Oil on artistboard
33 x 46 inches (83.8 x 116.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent original condition. Painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36116
REVEAU BASSETT, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 750.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Untitled
Pastel on grit paper
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Inscribed verso: Mrs. Reveau Bassett
A large and early Reveau Bassett utilizing the Frank Reaugh pastel method.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36117
R. D. ENRIGHT, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 800.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
R. D. ENRIGHT ( b. 1921)
Untitled Texas Hill Country River and Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right
R. D. Enright started his career as a commercial freelance artist. After World War II he relocated to Texas and discovered his passion for painting the landscape. Enright believes in direct painting from nature, and with the aid of his studio/camper spends much of his time in the countryside.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36118
W. R. THRASHER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 675.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,200.00
W. R. THRASHER (1908-1997)
Untitled Mountain Scene with Deer
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
Born in Lamar County in Texas, William Thrasher was a farm boy. He had aspirations to paint and spent all of his extra money on brushes and canvas. The death of his father during the Great Depression forced the sale of the farm and all the family possessions. The first items sold, and the most in demand were his paintings. This gave him the encouragement to pursue a career in art.
Thrasher painted what he knew; the landscape, farm scenes, and wildlife.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36119
W. FREDERICK JARVIS, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 375.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
W. FREDERICK JARVIS (1898-1966)
Untitled West Texas Landscape
Watercolor on paper
14 x 20 inches (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Frederick Jarvis was an accomplished watercolorist, as well as an oil painter. This composition, keyed to the color yellow, uses the clump of prickly pear cactus on the lower left, and the bare bush on the lower right going off the page, to reinforce the illusion of depth. The rock ledge to the left and right also contribute to the perception of depth in the painting.
Condition Report: Slight vertical crease near center, otherwise in excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36120
W. FREDERICK JARVIS, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 400.00High Bid: 450.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
W. FREDERICK JARVIS (1898-1966)
Untitled Western Landscape
Oil on canvas
10-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches (26.7 x 36.8 cm)
Signed lower left
This small Frederick Jarvis landscape was given in trade to the current owner's grandfather by the artist for mechanical work performed on his vehicle. The painting has remained in the family until this time.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36121
HERBERT SARTELLE, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 450.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
HERBERT SARTELLE (1885-1955)
Untitled Desert Scene
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
A Texas and California landscape painter, Herbert Sartelle, also known as Earl Herbert Burdick (his stage name), was an accomplished magician. He roamed throughout the west, painting while working as a magician. He is most known for his desert and wildflower scenes.Condition Report: Good original condition. Paint cracked in sky, two minor scratches, and yellowed varnish. No losses or restorations. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36122
EDNA EARL CROCKER, Early Texas, o/c
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 475.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
EDNA EARL CROCKER (1877-1942)
1925 Texas
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled lower left
Edna Earl Crocker was born in San Marcos and attended the Coronal Institute. She was a student of Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. She participated in the Edgar B. Davis Wildflower Competition in 1927, 1928, and 1929.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36123
EDNA EARL CROCKER, Early Texas oil, 1926
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
EDNA EARL CROCKER (1877-1942)
Indian Blanket, 1926
Oil on board
23-1/2 x 19-1/4 inches (59.7 x 48.9 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed, dated, and titled verso
The Indian Blanket Flower usually appears in the late spring and signals the beginning of summer in most parts of Texas. With their showy bands of red and yellow blazing across wide swaths of land, they do indeed resemble colorful Indian blankets.
Legend has it that the flower was once all yellow and was a favorite of the Aztecs. Young Aztec women would decorate their hair with crowns of the golden flowers. When Cortez came and the land was drenched with the blood of the trusting inhabitants, the much loved flower, in pity, caught the blood of the innocents as they fell.....and to this day the red stains remain on the flower.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36124
W. R. THRASHER, Early Texas Art
Start Price: 365.00High Bid: 850.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
J. W. THRASHER (b. 1940)
Cardinals and Wild Grape, 1996
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36125
W. R. THRASHER, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 290.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
W. R. THRASHER (1908-1997)
Cardinal
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36126
W. R. THRASHER, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 290.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
W. R. THRASHER (1908-1997)
Mockingbird
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Signed lower center
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36127
EMMA DILLARD, Early Texas Art, '30s-'40s
Start Price: 675.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 700.00 - 900.00
EMMA DILLARD (1879-1968)
Untitled River Scene, 1930s-1940s
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36128
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 800.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Untitled Landscape with Wildflowers
Oil on masonite
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition with small scratch (loss) to upper left corner of painting. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36129
BILL ZANER, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
BILL ZANER (b. 1936)
Along a Bluebonnet Road
Oil on masonite
18 x 30 inches (45.7 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36130
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 675.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,200.00
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape
Oil on canvasboard
5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36131
DON WARREN, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,150.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
DON WARREN (1935-2006)
End of Spring
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
This Texas Hill Country landscape painting is Don Warren at his best!Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36132
DON WARREN, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
DON WARREN (1935-2006)
Untitled Fall Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
Don Warren was primarily self taught. He was acquainted with Porfirio Salinas and Robert Wood. He learned his technique for painting Texas landscapes from careful study of Salinas' paintings.
Condition Report: Two small repaired holes, otherwise excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition (linen liner has stain at lower left).
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36133
WILLIAM CURTIS ELLIOTT, Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 410.00High Bid: 420.00Estimate: 700.00 - 1,000.00
WILLIAM CURTIS ELLIOTT (1909-2001)
Texas Farm
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
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36134
PAUL RODDA COOK, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 1,150.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
PAUL RODDA COOK (1897-1972)
Untitled - Fishing the Rocks
Watercolor and pencil on paper
22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower left
This watercolor has wonderful reflections in the water which mirror the composition.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36135
NANNIE HUDDLE, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
NANNIE HUDDLE (1860-9151)
Untitled Still Life Zinnias
Oil on canvas
22 x 26 inches (55.9 x 66.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Nannie Zenobia Carver was born in Wistler, Alabama, and relocated to Austin, Texas, where she studied art at St. Mary's Academy. In 1879, she took classes from William Henry Huddle, who was an instructor at St. Mary's. At the time, Huddle was one of the most accomplished artists in Texas. Ten years later the two were married. Known for her paintings of wildflowers, Nannie Huddle was one of the first Texas artists to paint bluebonnets.Condition Report: Applied patch to upper corner. Some paint loss to lower portion of painting. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36136
MARY MOTZ WILLS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
MARY MOTZ WILLS (1875-1961)
Untitled Floral Still Life
Oil on canvas
19-1/2 x 23 inches (49.5 x 58.4 cm)
Signed lower left
Mary Motz Wills grew up in Waco, Texas. She studied art in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York at the Art Students League. The artistic fame of Wills rests on the prodigious number of scientific renderings of wildflowers, particularly of Texas, that she painted. The University of Texas Press published a book titled, Roadside Flowers of Texas, in which 257 of her botanical paintings were reproduced. The Witte Museum has a large collection of her work and she is prominently included in the book, Art for History's Sake: The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum.
The two Mary Motz Wills paintings in this auction came from the Philadelphia area and may have been painted while she was taking classes there.Condition Report: Good original condition. Minor losses to an approximately three-square inch area to the left of the vase. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36137
MARY MOTZ WILLS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,000.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
MARY MOTZ WILLS (1875-1961)
Untitled Still Life
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition with minor touchup to two small areas. Period frame in good condition; some losses to edges.
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36138
Xavier Gonzalez, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1950s
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
XAVIER GONZALEZ (1898-1993)
Bread and Roses, 1950s
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Xavier Gonzalez was one of the most versatile and accomplished Texas artists. In the 1920s, his art was impressionist, in the 1930s regionalist, and in the 1940s modernist and surrealist; in the 1950s abstract expressionist. After yielding to complete abstraction, Gonzalez then chose to embrace all of these styles, and he switched back and forth effortlessly.
Xavier Gonzalez signed the back of this canvas, Xavier Gonzalez A. N. A., which stands for Associate National Academician. He was later awarded full Academician from the National Academy of Design, an honor few Texas artists have achieved.
In this painting, Gonzalez returns to the realist tradition with a painting of one of his favorite subjects, the white rose.
Provenance:
Estate of Xavier GonzalezCondition Report: Excellent condition with no restorations. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36139
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Untitled Still Life with Butterfly
Oil on masonite
24 x 20 inches (61.0 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
John Orth specialized in still life painting.
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36140
A. D. GREER, Early Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 1,200.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
A. D. GREER (1904-1998)
Untitled Still Life with Roses
Oil on linen
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed upper right
Besides landscapes, A. D. Greer was fond of painting floral still lifes. This might come as a surprise for someone who at various times during his life was a lumber jack, prize fighter, steeple jack, and a miner.
This painting's present owners were friends of A. D. Greer and the painting comes with a framed five-dollar bill that has the following inscription: Lost to Chelsea Crouch at poker A. D. Greer.
Provenance:
Gilbert and Charlene Crouch
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36141
DOLLIE NABINGER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 800.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
DOLLIE NABINGER (1905-1988)
Untitled Magnolia Blossoms
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
This striking painting of magnolia blossoms by Dolly Nabinger is in a hand-carved and signed frame made by her husband.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36142
DOLLIE NABINGER, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
DOLLIE NABINGER (1905-1988)
Untitled Hill Country Road
Oil on canvas
16 x 24 inches (40.6 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36143
DOLLIE NABINGER, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
DOLLIE NABINGER (1905-1988)
Untitled Red Oak and Country Road
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36144
DOLLIE NABINGER, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
DOLLIE NABINGER (1905-1988)
Untitled Country Road
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36145
DOLLIE NABINGER, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
DOLLIE NABINGER (1905-1988)
Untitled Mountain Adobe
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36146
BILL MITTAG, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
BILL MITTAG (b. 1935)
Winter Sunset
Oil on masonite
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
Bill Mittag was born in West Texas and grew up in Southeastern New Mexico. He primarily paints scenes of the old west.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36147
JAMES DISNEY, Early Texas Art, oil/linen, 1966
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
JAMES DISNEY (b. 1939)
Below the Sangre de Cristos, 1966
Oil on linen
24 x 48 inches (61.0 x 121.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Known for his scenes of the Colorado Rockies, this painting by James Disney gives a sweeping vista of a ranch in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Range.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36148
A. D. GREER, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1963
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 2,200.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
A. D. GREER (1904-1998)
Peaceful Stream, 1963
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
This is the best small A. D. Greer painting we have ever seen. Great composition and masterful use of light and color. A small gem.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36149
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,800.00High Bid: 2,200.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Landscape
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Proficient in two techniques, this painting is an excellent example of Windberg's palette-knife technique. Windberg is a romantic and depicts the world not as it exists, but as we would like it to be; a world in natural harmony, peaceful, and serene.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36150
W. R. THRASHER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,500.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
W. R. THRASHER (1908-1997)
Untitled Seascape
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
An exceptional seascape by William Thrasher. His use of light and the sunburst in the middle of the painting has an especially dramatic effect.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36151
FREDERICK BECKER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,450.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
FREDERICK W. BECKER (1888-1974)
Untitled
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Frederick W. Becker was an itinerant artist who traveled widely in the West. Before coming to Texas, he painted in Taos and in Southern California. In 1931-1932, he was head of the Fine Arts Department at Oklahoma City University. In the late 1930s and 1940s, Becker worked in the San Antonio and Big Bend areas of Texas. During that time he was president of the Society of Texas Artists and a member of the Southern States Art League. He is widely known for his western landscapes.
This is a wonderful scene of a small waterfall in a lush tropical setting with over-hanging tree and Spanish moss.Condition Report: Inpainting to whites in the sky and whites on the waterfall. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36152
FREDERICK BECKER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,000.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
FREDERICK W. BECKER (1888-1974)
Storm at Sea
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
In the 1950s, Frederick Becker left San Antonio and moved to California. This dramatic painting of a coastal storm is likely a California scene.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36153
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,500.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Untitled Seascape
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
A well painted coastal scene.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36154
JULIAN ONDERDONK, Early Texas Art, o/ab No lot.
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 975.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Would improve with a surface cleaning. Period frame in good condition.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36155
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1968
Start Price: 1,400.00High Bid: 5,000.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Untitled Texas Coastal, 1968
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Influenced early in his career by Dutch and Flemish old masters, Windberg paints his subjects with careful attention to light, colors, value, and shading. Windberg developed his "smooth surface" technique of oil painting as an individual variation on the style of Renaissance masters. This painting is an excellent example of that style.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36156
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, 1920s
Start Price: 400.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Untitled Buckeye Painting, 1920s
Pastel on paper
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
An early pastel by Robert Wood before he came to Texas.Condition Report: Paper is torn in four places, otherwise in excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36157
BOYER GONZALES, SR., Early Texas o/ab, 1921
Start Price: 2,900.00High Bid: 3,000.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
BOYER GONZALES, SR. (1864-1934)
Failing Breezes, 1921
Oil on artistboard
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Gonzales' marine paintings are considered to be his finest and most desirable work. This is a particularly fine example of Gonazales' impressionist ship paintings and was exhibited at the Salmagundi Club in the 1921 Thumb Box Exhibition. The surface is rich with impasto and sparkles with color. The sun is low on the horizon, half obscured by a cloud, and the sky glows yellow, rose, and mauve.
The painting was given as a wedding present to the current owner's parents.
Provenance:
Betty Roup (wedding present)
By descent to Greta McAndrews
Exhibited:
Salmagundi Club, Thumb Box Exhibition, 1921
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36158
BOYER GONZALES, SR., Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 4,875.00High Bid: 4,750.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
BOYER GONZALES, SR. (1864-1934)
In Belgian Waters
Oil on canvasboard
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Another fine example of Boyer Gonzales' marine paintings. This painting was possibly done in 1908 while on a one-year trip through Europe, which included the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy.
Provenance:
Ringling Brothers Circus Collection
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition, but would improve with a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36159
DAWSON-WATSON, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
DAWSON DAWSON-WATSON (1864-1939)
Untitled Sailboat
Oil on canvas
19-1/2 x 14 inches (49.5 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Good condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36160
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, gouache
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Matador and Bull
Gouache and pen on paper
8 x 6 inches (20.3 x 15.2 cm)
Signed lower left
A spontaneous and dynamic composition of a bullfighter executing a ballet-like pass. This quick composition catches the action as if freeze-frame.
Provenance:
Country Store Gallery (label attached verso)
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36161
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, gouache
Start Price: 550.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Bull Charging
Gouache and pen on paper
9 x 6-1/2 inches (22.9 x 16.5 cm)
Signed lower left
This quick sketch of a bullfighter executing a pass emphasizes the unflinching quality of the toreador while confronting the charging bull.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36162
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,450.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Bullfight
Oil on canvas
16 x 19-3/4 inches (40.6 x 50.2 cm)
Signed lower left
Salinas loved the drama of the bullfight. As if inspired by the bravura moves of the toreador, his brush strokes are bold and spontaneous. Every application of his paint reinforces the movement and action of the scene.
Condition Report: Repaired hole, otherwise in excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36163
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 675.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Belmonte
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and titled lower right
The modern style of Spanish bullfighting is credited to Juan Belmonte, generally considered the finest matador of all time. Belmonte introduced a daring and revolutionary style, in which he stayed within a few inches of the bull throughout the fight. Although extremely dangerous (Belmonte was gored on many occasions), his style is still considered the ideal by most matadors. In this painting, Belmonte executes one of his signature passes.
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36164
W. H. Barnes, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1905
Start Price: 625.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 700.00 - 900.00
W. H. BARNES (unknown)
Untitled, 1905
Oil on canvas
17-3/4 x 26 inches (45.1 x 66.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
An early painting of a Longhorn bull.
Condition Report: Relined with moderate inpainting. New frame in good condition.
Shipping: Framed - without Glass, Large (view shipping information)
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36165
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 4,000.00High Bid: 11,000.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Untitled West Texas
Pastel on grit paper
3-1/2 x 7 inches (8.9 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
A West Texas pastel by Frank Reaugh with vibrant color and a sweeping horizontal view of a large mesa. This pastel is in its original Frank Reaugh mat and frame.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36166
FRANK REAUGH , Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,500.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Untitled Prairie View
Pastel on grit paper
3 x 6-3/4 inches (7.6 x 17.1 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of the pastel landscape with the leafless mesquite in the immediate foreground (in fact, right up against the picture plane), a line of live oaks and larger mesquites in the middle ground, and a lavender vista in the far background. Based on the subject, treatment, and palette, I believe the pastel shows Mr. Reaugh's at his very best. I would date this masterful work from about 1895 to 1905. I believe the location of this painting could be the breaks of the Wichita River, a favorite place for Mr. Reaugh to paint. Several early Texas artists, including L. O Griffith, Edward G. Eisenlohr, and Hale Bolton, accompanied Mr. Reaugh to the Wichita Breaks.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner (the present owner's parents worked for Frank Reaugh at El Sibil, his home in Oak Cliff)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36167
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Lake Cliff Park Colorado & Zang Dallas, TX
Pastel on grit paper
3-1/4 x 7 inches (8.3 x 17.8 cm)
Signed and titled verso
It had water rides, a carousel, and music shows. There was a Ferris wheel, stadium, bath house, natatorium, rides galore, and a 30-acre lake. Welcome to beautiful Lake Cliff Park, "the Southwest's greatest playground," or at least it was on opening day on July 4, 1906. Thousands arrived by horse-drawn buggy, on the new five-cent electric streetcar, or even in one of those newfangled motorcars. Drawn in by $100,000 worth of amusements and attractions never seen before in this part of the country, the visitors passed through an arched entryway with a six-foot eagle flanked by large American flags.
Money problems plagued the park and in 1913 it was sold to the City of Dallas for $55,000. Over the years the rides and attractions were dismantled. The last attraction, the pool, was closed in 1959. In 1994, the Lake Cliff Historic District was established and in recent years there has been a renaissance in the area.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner (the present owner's parents worked for Frank Reaugh at El Sibil, his home in Oak Cliff)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36168
FRANK REAUGH, Portable Lap easel, 1928
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Frank Reaugh Portable Lap Easel, 1928
Wood
19 x 18 inches (48.3 x 45.7 cm) (folded)
Stamped with the Frank Reaugh palette logo
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition
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36169
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 1,300.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
From the Sun
Pastel on grit paper
2 x 6 inches (5.1 x 15.2 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
Titled lower center
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of the pastel "From the Sun". Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1885 to 1895. Throughout his career, Mr. Reaugh continued to create and amass sketches of different aspects of the Southwestern landscapes, particularly of trees and groups of trees seen in different atmospheric conditions. Furthermore, Mr. Reaugh often painted vignettes of the Southwestern landscape, such as we see in "From the Sun." For Mr. Reaugh his field sketches served as a visual vocabulary to which he would constantly refer back in his Oak Cliff studio. It is highly likely this particular sketch found its way into a larger Reaugh pastel or oil. Furthermore, these field sketches, such as this one of a group of trees, are able to stand alone as works of art in their own right.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36170
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 900.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
May
Pastel on grit paper
1-3/4 x 8 inches (4.4 x 20.3 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
Titled lower right
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of pastel "May." Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1885 to 1895. I would also suggest "May" may have been painted in Clay County, Texas, as we have at least two pastels in our collection using this same strong green, one of which is inscribed "Clay County."
Throughout his career, Mr. Reaugh continued to create and amass sketches of different aspects of the Southwestern landscapes, particularly of trees and groups of trees often near water. This painting may depict a playa or a stock pond. The birds in the foreground are also a common Reaugh device. Furthermore, Mr. Reaugh often painted vignettes of the Southwestern landscape, such as we see in "May." For Mr. Reaugh his field sketches served as a visual vocabulary to which he would constantly refer back in his Oak Cliff studio. It is highly likely this particular sketch found its way into a larger Reaugh pastel or oil. Furthermore, these field sketches, such as "May," are able to stand alone as fine works of art in their own right.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36171
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 1,000.00High Bid: 4,500.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Untitled Lone Mesquite Tree
Pastel on grit paper
3-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches (8.9 x 21.0 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of pastel of the lone mesquite. Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1885 to 1890. Throughout his career, Mr. Reaugh continued to create and amass sketches of different aspects of the Southwestern landscapes, particularly of trees and groups of trees. For Mr. Reaugh his field sketches served as a visual vocabulary to which he would constantly refer upon his return to his Oak Cliff studio. It is highly likely this particular sketch found its way into a larger Reaugh pastel or oil. Furthermore, these field sketches, such as this one of the lone mesquite, are able to stand along as works of art in their own right.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36172
FRANK REAUGH, Portable lap easel, 1928
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Frank Reaugh Portable Lap Easel, 1928
Wood
19 x 18 inches (48.3 x 45.7 cm) (folded)
Stamped with the Frank Reaugh palette log
Frank Reaugh manufactured and marketed his own hexagonal-shaped pastels blended to color match the flora and fauna of Texas, special coated papers for use with his pastels, and his patented "lap easels" to artists all over the Southwest.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36173
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 3,500.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Nov. 2
Pastel on grit paper
3-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches (8.9 x 16.5 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
Titled lower right
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of pastel "Nov. 2." Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1885. I believe "Nov 2" to be from a group of pastels Mr. Reaugh painted before he moved from Terrell to Oak Cliff. These pastels tend to have a greenish cast, largely due to Mr. Reaugh's practice of covering the entire surface of the paper with an olive drab color to function as underpainting. The group of paintings including "Nov 2" was probably completed before Mr. Reaugh saw his first color paintings during a trip to New York in 1883.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36174
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Feb Colors
Pastel on grit paper
3-1/2 x 5 inches (8.9 x 12.7 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
Titled lower right
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of pastel "Feb Colors." Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1885 to 1890. I believe "Feb Colors" may be from a group of pastels Mr. Reaugh painted before he moved from Terrell to Oak Cliff. These pastels tend to have a greenish cast, largely due to Mr. Reaugh's practice of covering the entire surface of the paper with an olive drab color to function as underpainting. However, his paintings done closer to 1890 are more yellow due to a shift toward an ochre underpainting. "Feb Colors" may have been completed after Mr. Reaugh saw his first color paintings during a trip to New York in 1883.
February was a favorite season for Mr. Reaugh as evidenced by his entry in the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, the unlocated "February in Texas," and other paintings of similar palette and locale. In fact, Mr. Reaugh could have referred to "Feb Colors" as he painted "February in Texas," as he often consulted numerous works for his larger compositions.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36175
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 3,250.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
D
Pastel on grit paper
3 x 5-3/4 inches (7.6 x 14.6 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of the "D" pastel. Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1885 to 1890. I believe "D" may be from a group of pastels Mr. Reaugh painted before he moved from Terrell to Oak Cliff. These pastels tend to have a greenish cast, largely due to Mr. Reaugh's practice of covering the entire surface of the paper with an olive drab color to function as underpainting. However, his paintings done closer to 1890 are more yellow due to a shift toward an yellow ochre underpainting. The "D" pastel may have been completed after Mr. Reaugh saw his first color paintings during a trip to New York in 1883. Furthermore, the "D" pastel reminds me of our important "Sunrise on the Prairie."
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
Shipping: Requires 3rd Party Shipping (view shipping information)
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36176
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 4,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
The Barn
Pastel on grit paper
3-1/2 x 6-3/4 inches (8.9 x 17.1 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
Titled lower right
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of pastel "The Barn". Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1880 to 1885. I believe "The Barn" may be from a group of pastels Mr. Reaugh painted before he moved from Terrell to Oak Cliff. These pastels tend to have a greenish cast, largely due to Mr. Reaugh's practice of covering the entire surface of the paper with an olive drab color to function as underpainting. The group of paintings including "The Barn" was probably completed before Mr. Reaugh saw his first color paintings during a trip to new York in 1883.
"The Barn" is a fully finished painting and stands alone as a fine work of art. As far as my files indicate, I find no exhibition record for this painting. But that is not unusual as Mr. Reaugh often sold frequently directly from his studio. The inscribed numbers "649" and "735" probably correspond to entries in one of Mr. Reaugh's many painting ledgers.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36177
FRANK REAUGH, Early Texas Art,
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 850.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
FRANK REAUGH (1860-1945)
Untitled Male Cardinal
Pastel on grit paper
2-3/4 x 1-1/2 inches (7.0 x 3.8 cm)
Unsigned, authenticated by Mr. Michael R. Grauer
According to Michael R. Grauer, Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum, and Frank Reaugh expert:
I have examined carefully the scans you sent me of the pastel of the cardinal. Based on the subject and palette, I believe the pastel is a good example of Mr. Reaugh's work from about 1885 to 1895. Mr. Reaugh's mother introduced him to the writings of the naturalist John Burroughs, who was a bird lover. Furthermore, during his life Mr. Reaugh himself remained a staunch naturalist, creating his own zoological, ornithological, and botanical charts. Moreover, Mr. Reaugh's nature and art organization, the Strigidian Club, (which predated the Girl Scouts) included the study of plants, birds, and animals, and was named after the Latin designation for owls ("strigidae").
Throughout his career, Mr. Reaugh portrayed birds, from 1880 pencil drawings, early "grisailles" of owls and chickadees, and later pastels of prairie chickens. Furthermore, Mr. Reaugh often painted vignettes of the Southwestern animals juxtaposed with plants. For example, we have a pastel of a butterfly perched on salvia, very similar in feel to your pastel of the cardinal.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36178
WILLIAM ANZALONE, Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 875.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
WILLIAM ANZALONE (b. 1935)
Tank from Skull Creek Road
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Inscribed on stretcher verso:
Tank from Skull Creek Rd. / Shelby TX / Anzalone
Provenance:
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas
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36179
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Untitled Ranch Tank, 1971
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36180
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1954
Start Price: 4,000.00High Bid: 10,000.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Spanish Oaks, 1954
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
This wonderful autumn Texas Hill Country painting was a personal gift from the artist to Robert Wood. It is inscribed verso: To Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wood From: Porfirio Salinas, Jr. 11-25-54.
Salinas must have considered this painting quite special, as he presented it to his friend and mentor, Robert Wood.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36181
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 3,250.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Untitled Landscape
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
An early fall landscape of a caliche river road in West Texas. The prickly pear fruit, or nopales, are ripe and their characteristic red color.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36182
WALTON LEADER, Texas Art, o/c, 1995
Start Price: 1,500.00High Bid: 3,500.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
WALTON LEADER (1876-1966)
Bluebonnets, 1955
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Dated and titled verso
A long time Austin resident, Walton Leader studied art with Edna Collins, Peter Hohnstedt, Harry Anthony DeYoung, and Frederick Becker. From 1913 to 1917, he pursued independent study in New York and attended the Chicago Art Institute.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36183
HUGO HERBECK, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,100.00High Bid: 1,300.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
HUGO HERBECK (b. 1923)
Bluebonnets Near San Antonio
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
The following excerpt is from, The Life of Porfirio Salinas, by Mrs. Porfirio Salinas:
Also about this same time, Mr. Hugo A. Herbeck met Porfirio. Mr. Herbeck had been wanting to meet the "maestro," as he started to call Porfirio from the beginning. Mr. Herbeck came over to our house to show Porfirio one of his paintings and get an opinion on his work. Porfirio would tell him what to do here and there, while doing a painting himself. After a while, he brought his family over, and we remained very good friends throughout the years. Porfirio called him many times to come over to paint at his studio, and I am sure that Mr. Herbeck appreciated the fact that he was one of the two persons that ever worked in Porfirio's studios. Although a few local artists claimed to have worked with Porfirio in his studio, the only ones who ever did were Louis Rodriguez and Hugo A. Herbeck.
Provenance:
Rainone GalleriesCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36184
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/wood
Start Price: 4,000.00High Bid: 6,000.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Texas Wildflowers
Oil on wood paneling
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower left
This painting was purchased as a pair with the next lot. It is a typical scene with bluebonnets, Indian paintbrushes, and prickly poppies.
Provenance:
Country Store Gallery, Austin, Texas (label attached verso)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36185
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/wood
Start Price: 3,000.00High Bid: 4,000.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
A Patch of Blue
Oil on wood paneling
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower left
This painting bears the remnant of a label from the Country Store Gallery in Austin, Texas. It was purchased as a pair with the prior lot. It is a typical Texas Hill Country scene with verbena and coreopsis.
Provenance:
Country Store Gallery, Austin, Texas (label attached verso)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36186
CLARA PANCOAST, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 2,500.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
CLARA PANCOAST (1872-1959)
Bluebonnets
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Clara Pancoast worked as a a journalist with the San Antonio Express, while taking lessons from Jose Arpa and Wilson K. Nixon. Her style is spontaneous, not labored or planned, with bright saturated colors.
Provenance:
David Dike Fine Art, Dallas, TexasCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36187
STAPLETON KEARNS, Early Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 2,900.00High Bid: 3,000.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 6,500.00
STAPLETON KEARNS (b. 1952)
Live Oaks Near Elm Creek / Rancho Los Senderos, Nixon, Texas
Oil on linen
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Stapleton Kearns was born in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1952. He considers his true artistic training to have begun in the mid-1970s with the late Boston School painter, R. H. Ives Gammell. It was during this time, while in Boston, Stapleton Kearns took his easel outdoors up on Beacon Hill and began applying Ives Gammell's lessons to landscape painting.
The engrossing challenges of bringing the vastness of nature to canvas quickly captured Stapleton's imagination. Painting outdoors, communicating the visual poetic beauty of a particular place, remains the focus of Stapleton's artistic expression to this day.
Stapleton Kearns' beautiful and prize-winning paintings are in hundreds of private collections both in this country and overseas. During the 1990s, a single major American corporation collected several hundred of his paintings. Stapleton has participated in over twenty four one-man or small group shows during the past ten years alone. He has twice shown in the biannual show of the National Academy of Design in New York City. The American Embassy in Moscow displayed one of his large snow scenes as an example of American painting in the Arts for the Embassies Program.
Kearns is a member of the exclusive Guild of Boston Artists and has served for five years as the president of the Rockport Art Association. He takes pride in the fact that his collectors often hang his work alongside the work of some of the great artists of American art history.
Kearns regularly paints in Texas and in 2004 painted a series of works in Palo Duro Canyon. This canvas was painted on a large ranch east of San Antonio owned by a collector of his paintings.
Provenance:
Stapleton Kearns
Galerie Kornye
Private Collection
Locators Fund Investments, Inc.,
PGP Texas L.P.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36188
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1930s
Start Price: 4,750.00High Bid: 6,000.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 8,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Untitled Bluebonnets, early 1930s
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
This painting was purchased from Robert Wood in the early 1930s. It was originally signed "G. Day." In 1976 the owners, concerned that the "G. Day" pseudonym would not be recognized as a true Robert Wood painting, took it to the Sigoloff Gallery for Robert Wood to re-sign.
Wood covered the original "G. Day" signature and re-signed the painting "Robert Wood." In addition, his daughter, Florence Wood, wrote the following about the painting:
Aug 6th 1976
I certify this 12 x 16 G. Day Bluebonnet is an original and authentic painting painted by my father Robert Wood circa 1930. This Bluebonnet with the oak tree on the right and rolling hills in the background was painted northwest of San Antonio. The colors are still beautiful after all of these years.
Florence Wood
Daughter of Robert Wood
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36189
ROLLA TAYLOR, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 6,250.00High Bid: 6,250.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
ROLLA TAYLOR (1871-1970)
Rio Grande Valley Near El Paso
Oil on canvas
24 x 32 inches (61.0 x 81.3 cm)
Signed lower right
There are Rolla Taylor paintings, and then there are ROLLA TAYLOR PAINTINGS! This wonderful canvas is one of those in the latter category. Taylor produced hundreds, if not thousands, of small, loose, and quickly finished field sketches. There are significantly fewer "finished works" carefully painted in his studio like this one. This is a chance to own a major work by the artist and a stunning Texas wildflower painting.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36190
ROLLA TAYLOR, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 500.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
ROLLA TAYLOR (1871-1970)
Untitled Big Bend Landscape
Oil on canvas
14 x 16 inches (35.6 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Rolla Taylor was one of the earliest painters to visit the Big Bend area and returned frequently, often on his way to and from Mexico, where he also loved to paint.
Provenance:
Estate of Rolla TaylorCondition Report: Relined; in good condition with minor scattered inpainting mostly to the sky and foreground. Unframed.
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36191
A. D. GREER, Early Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 5,750.00High Bid: 5,500.00Estimate: 6,000.00 - 9,000.00
A. D. GREER (1904-1998)
Untitled Water Hole
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right
In this painting, A. D. Greer captures a water hole next to an exposed limestone bluff. The play of light across the large rocky outcrop contrasts with the shadows and reflection in the still, calm pool.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36192
JERRY MALZAHN, Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 3,875.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
JERRY MALZAHN (b. 1946)
Willow Loop Sentinal, 2007
Oil on masonite
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Jerry Malzahn was born in Arkansas and moved to Texas as a young adult. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Texas and founded the Malzahn Landscape Company.
In 1994, at the age of forty-eight, Jerry began to devote himself to landscape painting. He experienced success quickly, collecting a first prize and a third prize at the Texas State Fair only two years later.
Ever striving to improve his craft, Jerry began to collect and study the paintings of master landscape artists as a tool to improve his eye and his craft. He began by collecting Texas masters such as Julian Onderdonk, Dawson-Watson, Robert Wood, and Porfirio Salinas. He also collected works by the French Barbizon painters, the Hudson River School, the American Tonalists, and the California Impressionists.
In 2003, Jerry was selected for membership in the prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York, and recently won a honorable mention in a juried show at this prestigious institution. Jerry's Texas landscapes pay great homage to Porfirio Salinas and Robert Wood.
Provenance:
Jerry Malzahn
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36193
JERRY MALZAHN, Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,800.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
JERRY MALZAHN ( b. 1946)
Hillside, Llano, 2007
Oil on masonite
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
The richness of this painting is due in part to the red under-painting, which is allowed to show through in places. The rich impasto in the clouds and landscape lend depth and texture to the composition.
Provenance:
Jerry MalzahnCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36194
JERRY MALZAHN, Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 1,150.00High Bid: 1,600.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
JERRY MALZAHN ( b. 1946)
Through the Oaks, 2007
Oil on masonite
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Jerry Malzahn
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36195
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1930s
Start Price: 4,000.00High Bid: 5,500.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 8,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Untitled Near Boerne, Texas, early 1930s
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
This painting was purchased from Robert Wood in the early 1930s. It was originally signed "G. Day." In 1976, the owners, concerned that the "G. Day" pseudonym would not be recognized as a true Robert Wood painting, took it to the Sigoloff Gallery for Robert Wood to re-sign.
Wood covered the original "G. Day" signature lower left and re-signed the painting "Robert Wood." In addition, his daughter, Florence Wood, wrote the following about this painting:
August, 6th, 1976
I certify this 12 x 16 painting is an original and authentic oil (signed G. Day) was painted by my father Robert Wood circa 1930. It was painted close to Boerne Texas, in the foreground is the blooming cactus beautifully done, rocky area around, and more cactus, a young oak tree on the right, in the background are the beautiful Texas Hills. In the late 20s and early 30s my father signed quite a few of his paintings G. Day.
Florence Wood
Daughter of Robert Wood
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36196
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 8,500.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Landscape
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
In this well composed Hill Country wildflower painting, Salinas has chosen to paint coreopsis and Indian paintbrushes, instead of the more commonly depicted bluebonnets. The artist creates an illusion of distance and depth by placing objects at various distances from the foreground, as contextual cues for the eye. In the very bottom right corner of the painting is a clump of grass extending out of the picture plane. A little further, there are more clumps of grass and prickly poppies. A little further still, there is to the left a bush and prickly pear. A little further still and there are small trees on either side of the canvas. Approaching midground is the large solitary oak. Then receding into the distance are clumps of bushes and trees. Even further still, in the remote hills, Salinas uses atmospheric effects to show distance. This layering of objects, and the skilled use of atmospheric effects, combine to produce a superb rendition of the Texas Hill Country in spring time.
Provenance:
Harry Halff Fine Art, San Antonio, TexasCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36197
FRANZ STRAHALM, Early Texas Art,
Start Price: 5,750.00High Bid: 6,000.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
FRANZ STRAHALM (1879-1935)
Untitled Indian Paintbrushes and Coreopsis
Oil on artistboard
32 x 44 inches (81.3 x 111.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Born in Vienna, Strahalm immigrated to Mexico in 1909. He subsequently moved to San Antonio in 1911. In 1919, he started his own art school in San Antonio, and in 1921 he moved to Dallas where he remained until his death. Strahalm was a frequent exhibitor with the women's clubs around the state.
This large-scale canvas must be considered one of Franz Strahalm's principal works. The composition places the viewer in the shadows of a small shaded creek bed looking out into a sun-filled field that is carpeted with coreopsis and Indian paintbrushes. The artist has appropriately used a thick impasto to impart richness and depth to the surface of the painting.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36198
FRANZ STRAHALM, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 11,500.00High Bid: 11,500.00Estimate: 12,000.00 - 16,000.00
FRANZ STRAHALM (1879-1935)
Sunset New Mexico Mountains
Oil on canvas
22 x 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Signed and titled verso
Besides painting his environs in San Antonio and Dallas, Franz Strahalm painted along the Colorado and Pecos rivers, around Cristoval, West Texas, and in New Mexico around Taos and Santa Fe. This is a striking painting of New Mexico Indians riding through the sagebrush with their pueblo in the background. The mountain tops and the plain are glowing yellow-orange with the warm rays of the setting sun. A typical late afternoon rain shower can be seen in the distance. Oscar Berninghaus of the Taos Society of Artists favored similar scenes in his painting.
The artist's original price of $1,000 is inscribed on the back of this painting. This was an enormous sum of money at that time. The price is an indication of Strahalm's belief that this is one of his principal works. It comes with a hand-carved southwestern-style frame signed by Strahalm. The frame is a work of art in its own right. While Franz Strahalm is "no Oscar Berninghaus," this painting could hang next to a Berninghaus and hold its head up high.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36199
FRANZ STRAHALM, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 4,000.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
FRANZ STRAHALM (1879-1935)
Sunset in Taos, N. M.
Oil on canvas
16 x 22 inches (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Signed and titled verso
A light-filled canvas with beautiful texture and impasto. The bright colors of a New Mexico sunset fill the canvas.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Painting would improve with a light surface cleaning.
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36200
JOHN MODESITT, Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 2,900.00High Bid: 2,800.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
JOHN MODESITT (b. 1955)
Glorious Country-Texas Blue Bonnets
Oil on canvas
18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
John Modesitt is part of the new wave of California Impressionists. His influences are Edgar Payne, Guy Rose, and Maurice Braun. He was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36201
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER, Early Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 4,875.00High Bid: 7,500.00Estimate: 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape
Oil on linen
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower left
A large and impressive bluebonnet landscape by one of Texas' favorite artists. William Slaughter painted very few canvases of this size.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36202
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1961
Start Price: 29,000.00High Bid: 30,000.00Estimate: 30,000.00 - 35,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape, 1961
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
A small cabin is nestled against the hills with laundry hanging out to dry, the bluebonnets at their peak, Indian paintbrushes interspersed, the prickly pear cactus blooming, and prickly poppies sticking up their cheerful heads. The abundant spring clouds are ferrying moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to nourish the land and give sustenance to this Central Texas ranch.
In this painting, Porfirio Salinas has recorded someone's "little piece of heaven." A fine example of Porfirio Salinas at his best!Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36203
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 11,500.00High Bid: 12,000.00Estimate: 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Bluebonnets Near San Angelo, mid 1930s to early 1940s
Oil on canvas
17-1/2 x 23-1/2 inches (44.5 x 59.7 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Robert Wood's Texas landscapes are highly sought-after works, especially paintings such as Bluebonnets Near San Angelo. Born in Sandgate, England, he put down roots in San Antonio, Texas, and became most famous for his beautiful pictures of central Texas, especially those that included the state flower, the bluebonnet. The son of a Victorian artist, Wood was a prolific painter of America's scenic beauty. Professionally trained at Folkstone, he set off for America with his friend Claude Waters, first to Illinois and then on to Los Angeles, by hopping freight trains and selling small paintings to make his way across America, chronicling the landscape with his brush.
But it was after he found a home in San Antonio with his wife Eyssel that his career literally blossomed. Texas became his adopted home and he threw himself into his work of painting Texas landscapes. He studied the technique of artist Jose Arpa, while making himself aware of the earlier Texas painters. He soon fell in love with the Texas scenery, particularly with scenes of the Texas state flower, the Blue Lupin, better known as the bluebonnet.
Bluebonnets Near San Angelo is an early work bearing the early "Robt. Wood" signature. Here he incorporates his signature bluebonnets and Texas Red Oak near the central Texas city of San Angelo. Wood was a master of the palette of the colors of central Texas and never tired of capturing its beauty. In this composition, he uses a broad brush with a masterful use of color in the bluebonnets, the texture of the stone and the Texas sky.
As his notoriety grew, Wood moved to the artist community of Laguna Beach and eventually to Woodstock, New York, but returned to California where he produced a large body of work, painting up until his death in 1979 as he approached his 90th birthday. Even after leaving Texas he continued completing works of his beloved former home and bluebonnets. His popularity was so great that the American Express company commissioned him to produce a set of six limited edition serigraphs for their cardholders, and printmakers eagerly reproduced his works which graced the walls of millions of homes around the world.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36204
DAWSON-WATSON, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1938
Start Price: 15,500.00High Bid: 15,000.00Estimate: 18,000.00 - 22,000.00
DAWSON DAWSON-WATSON (1864-1939)
Untitled Landscape, 1938
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Dawson-Watson was born in London, England, in 1864. Before coming to this country in 1893, he had exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, England, 1886; Paris Salon, 1888; Exposition Universelle, Paris, France, 1889; Royal Cambrian Academy, 1890; and the Royal Canadian Academy, 1902. Once in the United States he exhibited widely. He is represented in the City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Springfield Art Association, Springfield, Illinois; Chicago Art Institute; New Haven Clay and Palette Club, New Haven, Connecticut; Lotus Club, New York; Vanderpool Memorial Gallery, Chicago; and in many libraries and private collections both here and abroad. He has achieved distinction as a mezzotint engraver, textile designer, portraitist, and as an executant of every form of stage detail. His awards include: Silver Medal, Portland, Oregon; three Gold and one Silver Medals, Sedalia, Missouri; Honorable Mention, Austin, Texas; Landscape Prize, Nashville, Tennessee; Popular Vote Prize, Southern States Art League, 1930; Landscape Prize, Mississippi Art Association, 1930; Alice Huger Smith Watercolor Prize, Southern States Art League, 1931; and many others.
The San Antonio Art League Competitions include: $5,000 prize for his painting entitled The Glory of the Morning, 1927; Hors de Concours for a painting entitled Flowers of Silk, 1928; $1,000 prize for painting The Cotton Pickers, 1929; $1,000 prize for painting The Bouquet, 1929.
This large-scale canvas by Dawson-Watson is his characteristic impressionist treatment of the Texas Hill Country landscape with blooming prickly pear cactus keyed to pastel-like colors.Condition Report: Excellent condition with minor scratch to the sky. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36205
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 15,500.00High Bid: 15,000.00Estimate: 18,000.00 - 24,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Boerne Texas
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
Painted after Robert Wood left Texas, this painting is a masterpiece of light, color, and composition. Wood is known for dramatic clouds and this painting is an excellent example of that proficiency. The bluebonnets, and yellow and white flowers, are painted with a thick juicy impasto that successfully plays against the less thickly painted sky. Rich and vibrant colors with subtle tonalities are used throughout the painting.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36206
ROBERT WOOD, Double-sided, o/c, 1954
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 8,500.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Untitled Double-Sided Prickly Pear, 1954
Oil on masonite
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Verso signed and dated lower left
This painting is a rarity for several reasons. First, the painting's main subject matter is blooming prickly pear cactus, which is a rare primary subject for Robert Wood. Second, the painting is on masonite. Third, and the best, is that it is a double-sided painting with both sides fabulously executed. The painting is framed so that either side can be displayed.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36207
JULIAN ONDERDONK, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1912
Start Price: 6,750.00High Bid: 7,000.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 20,000.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (1882-1922)
Untitled
Watercolor on paper
10-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (26.7 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower right
This wonderful Julian Onderdonk watercolor was given by Onderdonk to the present owner's grandfather, the founder of Calvert Dairy Farm. The time frame was around 1912, and Julian Onderdonk was $165 in debt to the Calvert family. The painting has been in the family for ninety-five years, and although untitled, it appears to be San Pedro Springs, according to Onderdonk expert Harry Halff.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36208
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1974
Start Price: 8,750.00High Bid: 9,000.00Estimate: 9,000.00 - 12,000.00
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Untitled Bluebonnets and Rocky Hillside, 1974
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
This painting was dedicated by the artist as follows: Best wishes to Charlie and Laverne Martin on the occasion of your wedding. W. A. Slaughter 3/2/75.
This painting is characterized by excellent composition. Slaughter uses two live oaks and an exposed rocky cliff to direct the viewers eye into the center of the canvas. The sky is characterized by dramatic clouds. In the distance a remote hill can be seen through the hazy moisture-laden atmosphere.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36209
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 14,500.00High Bid: 14,500.00Estimate: 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Bluebonnet Time in Texas
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
A large and impressive Robert Wood bluebonnet painting.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36210
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1950s
Start Price: 22,000.00High Bid: 22,000.00Estimate: 25,000.00 - 35,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Bluebonnets and Oak, 1950s
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
An old dirt road, bluebonnets at the top of the hillside in the well drained soil they prefer, occasional Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, and flowering prickly pear cactus; all are lorded over by the stately sentinal oak at the top of the hill. Likely over one hundred years old, it overlooks the valley below, having seen many seasons of change.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36211
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 15,500.00High Bid: 15,000.00Estimate: 18,000.00 - 24,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Hill Country Valley
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
A superb painting looking down into a small valley in the Texas Hill Country. The limestone cliff to the left dominates the foreground. It gives a sense of elevation and depth to the viewer. In the foreground and below Indian paintbrushes and coreopsis are blooming. Nestled against the hills and the right edge of the painting is a fence line, red barn, farmhouse, and windmill. A masterful composition by one of Texas' best landscape painters.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Original unlined canvas with no restorations; some yellowing to old varnish. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36212
ROBERT WOOD (G. DAY), Early Texas Art, oil, 30s
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 7,500.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (G. DAY) (1889-1979)
Untitled Hill Country Autumn, early to mid 1930s
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
This early Robert Wood painting is signed with his pseudonym, "G. Day." It is a superbly painted autumn Hill Country scene. The bright colors should improve further with a light surface cleaning.Condition Report: Excellent original condition with no restorations. Painting would improve with a light surface cleaning. Period frame in good condition.
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36213
W. FREDERICK JARVIS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,900.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
W. FREDERICK JARVIS (1898-1966)
Eucalyptus Trees and Poppies, California
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
This painting is a slightly smaller version of the record-setting, Altadena Poppies Altadena California painting in our December 2006 auction. This canvas is from a slightly different view, but the same mountains in the background identify the area as Altadena.
In the early days of Altadena, the hills and fields below the foot of Echo Mountain were covered with poppies, much to the delight of all who laid eyes on them. The Spanish, when sailing up and down the newly-discovered coast, looked inland and saw the "flame" of orange-yellow poppies spread upon the hillsides. This was the "land of fire." They believed the altar cloth of San Pascal was spread upon the hills, and with devotional spirit the explorers disembarked from their ships to worship on the shore.
An Indian legend says the presence of gold in California is due to the petals that have fallen year after year, and sank into the soil.
It is now difficult to recognize the area these golden flowers once inhabited. The only indication left of the stunning beauty of the Altadena poppy area are street names like Poppyfield Drive, old postcards from the early 1900s, and the few surviving paintings like Jarvis's Eucalyptus Trees and Poppies, California. Sadly, the once abundant poppies are a casualty of modern development.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36214
W. FREDERICK JARVIS, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 3,875.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
W. FREDERICK JARVIS (1898-1966)
Creek Near Big Bend
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
This major Frederick Jarvis canvas is the first Big Bend painting that has ever been to auction. Jarvis chose a creek-bed road crossing as the setting for this painting. By the color of the trees, it is apparent it is autumn. A large area of desert wildflowers are visible beyond the creek bed. Big Bend has two wildflower seasons; fall and spring, due to seasonal rains, and the abundance of plant life indicates Jarvis was painting in a year of plentiful moisture.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36215
ROBERT WOOD (G. DAY), Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 10,000.00High Bid: 12,500.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (G. DAY) (1889-1979)
Untitled Guadalupe River
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
This painting was acquired directly from Robert Wood in the early mid-1930s by the present owner's family. The location of the painting is the Guadalupe River on the family ranch.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent original condition without any restorations. Painting has yellowed varnish and would improve with a light cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36216
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1930s
Start Price: 7,500.00High Bid: 10,000.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Bandera Hill Country
Oil on canvas
24 x 28 inches (61.0 x 71.1 cm)
Signed lower right
This painting by Robert Wood was taken to the Sigoloff Gallery in 1976 with two other paintings that were signed with the pseudonym "G. Day". Even though this painting was signed "Robt. Wood," Florence Wood (the artist's daughter) wrote this very personal account of the painting:
(Bandera Hill Country) August 6th 1976
This beautiful Texas Hill Country scene was painted by my father, Robert Wood circa 1930 it depicts his love of the beautiful Texas hills, his love of color and ability to use it. Many times my father and I have walked down this road and climbed the hills. The violet tones blended with yellow and orange make this a beautiful fall painting.
Florence Wood
Daughter of Robert Wood
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36217
EDWARD EISENLOHR, Early Texas Art, o/ab
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 8,000.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 15,000.00
EDWARD EISENLOHR (1872-1961)
Untitled Snow Scene
Oil on artistboard
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Edward Eisenlohr began his art studies with Frank Reaugh and Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. In Woodstock he studied with Birge Harrison, and also at the Art Students League in New York. In 1907-1908, he went to Germany to study with Gustav Schonleber. While there he also enrolled in the Granducal Academy of Fine Arts.
Upon returning, Eisenlohr devoted full time to art (he had left his position working for a Dallas bank in 1907). For the better part of the next twenty years Edward Eisenlohr and Frank Reaugh were the most accomplished artists in North Texas. Eisenlohr exhibited widely and his credits include the Pan American Exposition, San Francisco World's Fair, American Watercolor Society, Cincinnati Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Academy of Design, Southern States Art League Circuit Exhibitions, the Edgar B. Davis Wildflower Competition, Museum of Modern Art, Oakland Art Museum, Texas Centennial Exposition, New York World's Fair, the Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, and museums/exhibitions across the state of Texas.
In this snow scene, Eisenlohr expertly manipulates the heavily impastoed paint with both brush and palette knife, resulting in a scene of a heavy snowstorm with partial white-out conditions. His choice of primarily "cool" colors (grays, greens, and blues) gives the painting an icy feel.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36218
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1940s
Start Price: 15,500.00High Bid: 22,000.00Estimate: 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Bluebonnet Time, 1940s
Oil on canvas
27 x 33 inches (68.6 x 83.8 cm)
Signed lower left
This Porfirio Salinas bluebonnet painting is built around a monumental central oak tree in the middle of the painting. This differs from most bluebonnet compositions, where objects such as trees or farm houses frame the sides, and draw the eyes to the relatively vacant center. In this painting, the eyes are drawn to the center because the stately old oak tree dominates the scene. There is no doubt Porfirio Salinas could paint the stately Texas oak tree better than just about any artist.Condition Report: Excellent original condition. There is cracking in the sky, but the paint is well adhered. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36219
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1954
Start Price: 15,500.00High Bid: 19,000.00Estimate: 18,000.00 - 22,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Boerne Hills, 1954
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches (71.1 x 106.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
The colors, the impasto, the composition, the size; everything is right on this painting. A must-see in person. A truly spectacular Texas bluebonnet landscape of large size and exceptional condition.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36220
JULIAN ONDERDONK, Early Texas Art, oil, 1913
Start Price: 38,750.00High Bid: 85,000.00Estimate: 40,000.00 - 60,000.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (1882-1922)
Late Afternoon in the Bluebonnets, S. W. Texas, 1913
Oil on wood panel
8 x 11 inches (20.3 x 27.9 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed, dated, and titled verso
The year of 1913 was a breakthrough year for Julian Onderdonk. He was elected to the prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York. He also had two paintings, both Texas landscapes, accepted by the National Academy of Design for inclusion in their winter show. Onderdonk's reputation in Texas was growing as well.
This early bluebonnet painting, dated 1913, is an exceptional example of Onderdonk's finest work. The use of light across the midground of the composition is masterful. Rain can be seen to the left side of the painting and clearing skies to the right. Onderdonk has caught that magical moment when the rain has stopped, the sun has come out, and nature with all her vigor and freshness is at its peak. Even the puddles in the winding dirt road reflect the magic of the moment. This is the artist at his best, successful at what all impressionists strive to do, which is to catch the fleeting moments of light and nature.
This painting has remained in the same family for ninety-four years. It was purchased directly from the artist. It was framed under glass which has kept the painting in a remarkable state of preservation. There are no losses, no cracking, no accumulation of grime or dust. This is a unique chance to own a true Texas masterpiece in absolutely pristine condition.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36221
JULIAN ONDERDONK, Early Texas oil/canvas
Start Price: 17,500.00High Bid: 18,000.00Estimate: 18,000.00 - 24,000.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (1882-1922)
October Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Julian Onderdonk came under the influence of three landscape traditions: the Barbizon School, the Tonalists, and the American Impressionists. This impressive large-scale painting is a synthesis of two of these traditions: Tonalism and Impressionism.
This painting reveals Julian Onderdonk's mastery of light, color, and atmosphere. The bright overcast day reveals itself in the middle of the painting as the sun cuts through thinning clouds behind the central tree. That same light is reflected across the water and in highlights throughout the undergrowth of the foreground.
While the full palette is primarily browns (tonalist in character), chromatic overtones of purples, grays, blues, and yellows are integrated into the midground and provide richness to the composition. The hazy atmospheric effects and trees in the distance are handled with Onderdonk's typical soft touch.
The heavier impasto of the water reflections and surrounding undergrowth is characteristically impressionist and is similar in texture to the foreground in William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock landscapes. Chase's influence on Onderdonk will be highlighted in the upcoming exhibition on Julian Onderdonk at the Dallas Museum of Art.Condition Report: Relined canvas. Very minor scattered inpainting. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36222
JULIAN ONDERDONK, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 17,500.00High Bid: 22,000.00Estimate: 18,000.00 - 24,000.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (1882-1922)
Untitled Texas Dry Country
Oil on canvas
16 x 30 inches (40.6 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
In this painting, Julian Onderdonk ventures to drier country west of San Antonio. Except for the central clump of trees there is little vegetation. Dark clouds and indications of rain fill the sky in the right half of the painting. Blue sky and sun-dappled hilltops fill the left half. The horizontal format of the painting reinforces the feeling of the vastness of the Texas landscape.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36223
JULIAN ONDERDONK, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 4,000.00High Bid: 12,000.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (1882-1922)
Untitled Pioneer Church
Oil on Academy Board
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower left
This masterfully composed scene of a pioneer church is filled with early morning light. Trees frame the painting left and right. A stable and old fence line obscure much of the church so that only the steeple shows.Condition Report: Excellent original condition. No restorations. Painting would benefit from a surface cleaning because of yellowed varnish and grime. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36224
JULIAN ONDERDONK, Early Texas o/c, 1901
Start Price: 7,000.00High Bid: 8,500.00Estimate: 9,000.00 - 12,000.00
JULIAN ONDERDONK (1882-1922)
Central Park, 1901
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
In 1901, Julian Onderdonk moved to New York where he undertook studies at the Art Students League with Kenyon Cox. Later, his studies expanded to include instruction with William Merrit Chase, Frank Vincent DuMond, and Robert Henri.
At the turn of the century, Tonalism (1880-1910) was a widely practiced and popular style in American landscape painting. The style was characterized by landscapes with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist. Grays, browns, or blues would usually dominate such compositions. A popular subject was dusk or dawn with a rising mist.
This early morning painting of New York's Central Park by Onderdonk was painted shortly after he arrived. It's atmospheric effects of moisture and the early morning light are skillfully rendered and in the great tradition of American Tonalist painting.
Provenance:
Wayne ProkayCondition Report: Excellent condition. Painting has been relined with only very minor scattered inpainting. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36225
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c, mid-30s
Start Price: 20,000.00High Bid: 28,000.00Estimate: 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Bluebonnet Field San Antonio, Texas, early-mid 1930s
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
This exceptional Porfirio Salinas painting exhibits the early "P. Salinas" signature, placing its execution in the early to mid-1930s. This painting must be seen in person to fully appreciate the masterful brushwork throughout. The expressive brushwork in the sky and clouds produce movement as in nature. The trees and bluebonnets are accentuated with rich impasto. The surface of this painting is alive with movement and texture.
The arrangement of blues, pinks, and greens creates a tapestry-like effect. Finally, the composition with trees framing the left and right edges of the painting lead the viewers' eyes first to the bluebonnets in the foreground, and then deeper into the middle of the painting. This canvas is Porfirio Salinas at his top form.
Provenance:
Rainone Galleries, Inc.
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36226
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1957
Start Price: 25,000.00High Bid: 25,000.00Estimate: 25,000.00 - 30,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Bluebonnet Path, 1957
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
A lazy trail winds through the bluebonnets in the Texas Hill Country. Bluebonnets, Indian paintbrushes, coreopsis, prickly poppies, and blooming prickly pear add color to the scene. The eye is drawn into the picture directed by the dirt path. The hazy moisture-laden atmosphere of a Texas spring obscures the details of the hills in the distance.
This fine bluebonnet painting was purchased from the artist by Harry Jersig, the CEO of Lone Star Brewing of San Antonio. It was possible Harry Jersig had a long time relationship with Salinas, because one of the artist's first reported jobs was painting beer signs on the side of delivery trucks (Prohibition ended in 1933).
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by Harry Jersig, CEO, Lone Star Brewing, San Antonio, Texas
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36227
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 3,000.00High Bid: 7,000.00Estimate: 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
WILLIAM SLAUGHTER (1923-2003)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape, early 1980s
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right
William Slaughter was ordained a Lutheran minister after World War II. He was pastor in Lubbock, Mexico, and finally Dallas. While in Dallas he took up painting as a hobby, but success in painting changed his calling. In 1968, he won a first prize in landscape painting and in 1973 he won a first prize in still life painting. This painting from the early 1980s is an excellent example of Slaughter's Texas wildflower paintings.
Provenance:
Pritchard Galleries
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36228
A. D. GREER, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1987
Start Price: 4,875.00High Bid: 8,000.00Estimate: 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
A. D. GREER (1904-1998)
Untitled Hill Country River, 1987
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
A. D. Greer led a colorful life as a painter, commercial artist, muralist, boxer, steeplejack, lumberjack, and miner. He is well known across Texas and the United States for keeping alive the Texas landscape painting tradition.
This is a majestic Texas Hill Country landscape. Greer's masterful use of atmospheric effects, light, and shadow are apparent in this painting.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36229
PORFIRIO SALINAS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 20,000.00High Bid: 20,000.00Estimate: 16,000.00 - 24,000.00
PORFIRIO SALINAS (1910-1973)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
This painting is a particularly fine Salinas bluebonnet scene with a sweeping vista from atop a hill! Salinas uses the small caliche road to lead the viewers eye into the picture. A short distance down the hill, a farm house is perched with a view of the valley below. Across the valley hills can been seen, but they are somewhat obscured with the hazy moisture of a Hill Country spring day.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36230
A. D. GREER, Early Texas Art, o/c 1987
Start Price: 5,750.00High Bid: 8,500.00Estimate: 7,000.00 - 9,000.00
A. D. GREER (1904-1998)
Untitled Hill Country River with Bluebonnets, 1986
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
While A. D. Greer was a prolific painter of Texas landscapes, paintings of his generally do not contain bluebonnets. This large canvas is an excellent and rare example of an A. D. Greer bluebonnet painting.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. There is yellowed varnish. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36231
STEFAN POSTUHOV, Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 7,750.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
STEFAN PASTUHOV (living)
View at the Rim (Palo Duro Canyon), 2004
Oil on canvas
24 x 48 inches (61.0 x 121.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Plein-air painter Stefan Pastuhov is an avid outdoorsman who loves the beauty of changing light and seasons. His office is the great outdoors. It is no surprise that Lands End has selected Pastuhov to paint covers for their mail order catalogs.
Painting in the style of the California Impressionists, particularly Edgar Payne, his technique is alla prima, that is, with the first stroke. His brushwork is spontaneous, not labored or planned.
Pastuhov often writes a few sentences about the creation of each painting on the back of the canvas.
The following is inscribed by the artist verso:
There was lots of weather when we were at Palo Duro. On a day I was working on this painting a huge storm thundered in. We walked quickly and just made our van when the sky opened up. Stape (Stapleton Kearns) and I had never seen it rain so hard.
Provenance:
Stefan Pastuhov
Galerie Kornye
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36232
STEFAN PASTUHOV, Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 7,750.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
STEFAN PASTUHOV (living)
Lower Espy's Ranch, 2004
Oil on canvas
24 x 48 inches (61.0 x 121.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled and dated verso
Inscribed by the artist verso:
The most beautiful spot on our whole trip. Everything was green because of lots of ran. There were wildflowers everywhere. WOW! The Lower Ranch Heaven in Texas Ft. Davis Apr 2004
Provenance:
Stefan Pastuhov
Galerie KornyeCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36233
STEFAN PASTUHOV, Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 2,900.00High Bid: 2,800.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
STEFAN PASTUHOV (living)
High Drama, 2004
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
Inscribed by the artist verso:
The setting is right off the highway rest area just starting down into the valley, being so close to El Capitan made this picture so dramatic. April 2004 Guadalupe Mt. Nat. Park.
Provenance:
Stefan Pastuhov
Galerie KornyeCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36234
STEFAN POSTUHOV, Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,500.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
STEFAN PASTUHOV (living)
Desert Wild Flowers / Davis Mountains, Texas
Oil on canvas
16 x 24 inches (40.6 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
Inscribed by the artist verso:
There were flowers everywhere and birds of every description. I felt I was in the Texas part of heaven.
Provenance:
Stefan Pastuhov
Galerie KornyeCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36235
STEFAN PASTUHOV, Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
STEFAN PASTUHOV (living)
Palo Duro Hoo Doos, 2004
Oil on masonite
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled and dated verso
Inscribed by the artist verso:
This small hoo doo was on the walk to the "Lighthouse" Palo Duro's signature hoo doo. The light is very early day and the wide range of reds and their value is what intrigues me.
Provenance:
Stefan Pastuhov
Galerie KornyeCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36236
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 7,500.00Estimate: 9,000.00 - 12,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Spanish Oak, late 1940s to early 1950s
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
Painted a few years after Robert Wood left Texas, Spanish Oak, is an exemplary Texas Hill Country autumn landscape. From one of his major dealers, the Sigoloff Gallery in San Antonio, and many devoted Texas collectors, Robert Wood had both ample demand and ample opportunity to continue painting the Texas Hill Country that he obviously loved.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36237
MURRAY BEWLEY, Early Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 7,250.00High Bid: 7,500.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
MURRAY BEWLEY (1884-1964)
Evening
Oil on linen
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Murray Bewley's uncanny ability to portray innocence and feminine beauty is demonstrated in this painting. The color tonalities of this painting are amazing. Virtually every color of the rainbow finds its way into this composition, but in a completely balanced and harmonious manner. The virtuosity of the background is pure Robert Henri, bravura, spontaneous and completely integrated into the final work. The woman is contemplative, innocent, and at peace. Once again, portraiture that rises to the level of high art.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36238
MURRAY BEWLEY, Early Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 7,250.00High Bid: 7,500.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 12,000.00
MURRAY BEWLEY (1884-1964)
Marian
Oil on linen
20 x 18 inches (50.8 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower right
Murray Percival Bewley was born in Fort Worth, Texas. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago for two years, and then studied under Cecilia Beaux at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. To further develop his prodigious talent Bewley traveled to New York and studied under Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase, two of America's most accomplished portrait artists. Bewley subsequently accompanied Chase to Europe.
Bewley returned to Fort Worth in 1913 and maintained a studio in the Continental Bank building until 1918. He subsequently lived in New York, California, and Paris, France, but he continued to periodically return to Fort Worth to paint portraits of friends and three generations of his family.
Murray Bewley specialized in child portraiture. His ability to portray child-like innocence is uncanny. It takes exceptional talent to raise portraiture from the level of being just a painting of a person to being a work of fine art.
In this painting, Murray Bewley does just that. The colors he chose are magical. He captures the young girl's freshness and child-like innocence with a degree that a camera could never match. This painting transcends portraiture and successfully becomes high art.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36239
BOYER GONZALES, Early Texas Art, o/cb, 1921
Start Price: 2,900.00High Bid: 2,800.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
BOYER GONZALES, SR. (1864-1934)
Between Showers Morningside, 1921
Oil on canvasboard
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Boyer Gonzales, Sr. was an early and important Texas Impressionist. He was born in Houston and raised in Galveston, where his father was a cotton broker. In a twist of fate, Winslow Homer's brother was also a cotton broker. The two met and arrangements were made for Gonzales to paint in Prouts Neck, Maine, with Homer. A great friendship ensued and Boyer spent nine total summers painting with him.
Gonzales was one of the first Texas artists to have an extensive exhibition record in important national museums before 1930. Only a handful of Texas artists had achieved an exhibition record outside the state before the 1920s as Gonzales had.
Exhibited in New York City at the Salmagundi Club in the 1921 Thumb Box Exhibition, Between Showers Morningside, is a skilled impressionist rendering of a damp and drizzly day. The painting was given as a wedding present to the current owner's parents.
Provenance:
Betty Roup (wedding present)
By descent to Greta McAndrews
Exhibited:
Salmagundi Club, Thumb Box Exhibition, 1921
Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36240
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1930s
Start Price: 3,875.00High Bid: 6,000.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
The Grand Tetons, Wyoming, 1930s
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
This depression-era Robert Wood painting exhibits the early "Robt. Wood" signature. It was likely painted on one of Wood's treks out west, which often times involved hopping freight trains or trading paintings for food, lodging, or transportation. He was exploring and painting the great American West as Bierstadt and Moran had done fifty years earlier.
It is unfair to view this painting with eyes that do not compensate for the yellowed varnish on its surface; only then will the viewer realize the drama in the clouds, and the vibrant colors hiding behind accumulated grime and yellowed varnish.Condition Report: Excellent original condition. No restorations. Three minor losses due to scratches or abrasions. Painting has yellow varnish and will brighten considerably with a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36241
ROBERT WOOD, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1935
Start Price: 17,500.00High Bid: 18,000.00Estimate: 18,000.00 - 24,000.00
ROBERT WOOD (1889-1979)
Yosemite Falls, 1935
Oil on canvas
36 x 26 inches (91.4 x 66.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
This majestic depiction of lower Yosemite Falls is from the personal collection of Robert Wood, as evidenced by the collection stamp on the back of the painting.
Yosemite Falls has the largest drop of all waterfalls in North America at 2,425 feet. It consists of three sections: the upper falls, the cascades, and the lower falls. Lower Yosemite Falls is the most approachable of the entire valley's falls. It is a gentle walk through the forest to the base of the falls. In springtime, with huge volumes of water, the viewing area is drenched with spray. This is probably why Wood takes the viewpoint to the opposite side of the spray. His perspective is very near the base of the falls.
This painting dates from the mid 1930s and would have been painted on one of Robert Wood's first trips out west. It is a spectacular early painting by the artist that compares favorably with the great tradition of landscape painters who have painted the subject.
Stamp verso:
Collection of Robert WoodCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36242
DALHART WINDBERG, Early Texas Art, oil, 1969
Start Price: 30,000.00High Bid: 30,000.00Estimate: 40,000.00 - 50,000.00
DALHART WINDBERG (b. 1933)
Southwest Landscape, 1969
Oil on masonite
56 x 44 inches (142.2 x 111.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
This painting can be considered one of Dalhart Windberg's principal works. This painting is impressive in scale, beautifully executed, and in wonderful condition. As would be expected with Windberg, the surface finish of the painting is superb. The interplay of shapes from the rocks and cactus in the foreground, to the buildings and roofs in the midground, to the heavily impastoed mountains and clouds in the background, presents a visual feast for the eyes. Warm colors dominate the foreground, cool colors dominate the background. There is much to keep the eye engaged -- a masterwork for Windberg.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36243
JOSE ARPA, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1900
Start Price: 14,500.00High Bid: 14,000.00Estimate: 25,000.00 - 35,000.00
JOSE ARPA (1858-1952)
Artist's Son in the Studio, 1900
Oil on canvas
39 x 55 inches (99.1 x 139.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
This painting was painted by Jose Arpa just after his arrival in Mexico in 1896. The Mexican government had invited him to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico City, but when he arrived he declined employment. Instead he settled in Puebla with some friends from Spain.
In this painting a small boy, presumably the artist's son, has taken a seat in the artist's studio where he has begun painting a picture. He is wearing a little sailor's uniform, and has the artist's palette in one hand and a brush in the other. With a sheepish grin he is working on a small painting of a man in a hat. The rest of the painting is what might be best described as a trompe l'oeil of the artist's studio.
Several paintings fill the studio: a large framed impressionist masterpiece of a harbor scene, several small portrait studies, a Moroccan with a Fez (from Arpa's prior travels in that country), and a couple of smaller oils. Two small copper pots sparkle from reflected light. Other knick-knacks, correspondence, artist paint brushes, and a Pre-Columbian statuette fill the space.
This is an exceptional opportunity to own a well-exhibited and well documented early Jose Arpa painting.
Exhibitions/Literature:
Exhibition Catalog of Circulo Catolico de Puebla, Puebla Mexico, April-May 1900
Exhibition in San Antonio around 1905
Catalog of the exhibition, Jose Arpa y Perea, Foundation El Monte Seville Spain, pp 44, 45, 70 and 77
Provenance:
Collection of Manuel Perez de Salazar, Mexico D.F.
Private CollectionCondition Report: Relined. Minor scattered inpainting. Unframed.
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36244
JOSE ARPA, Early Texas Art, color etching
Start Price: 280.00High Bid: 850.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
JOSE ARPA (1858-1952)
Untitled
Color etching on paper
6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches (16.5 x 24.1 cm)
Signed lower left
A fine example of Arpa's etching technique.
Provenance:
Purchased at a San Antonio Museum of Art Charity AuctionCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36245
C. R. PARKER, Portrait of Steven F. Austin
Start Price: 145,000.00High Bid: 120,000.00Estimate: 150,000.00 - 200,000.00
C. R. PARKER (1799-1849)
Portrait of Stephen F. Austin
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Signed center left
C. R. Parker was a New Orleans-based portrait painter of the Old South. He first appeared in Louisiana in 1825. He was commissioned by the Louisiana legislature to paint portraits of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. His paintings of Washington, Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin were displayed in 1826 at the State Legislature Hall in New Orleans.
Immediately after the sale of these portraits, Parker left New Orleans for England where he studied until 1832. He exhibited with the Free Society of Artists and at the Royal Academy. In 1828, he painted a portrait of John James Audubon who had arrived in London that August. Subsequently, Parker joined Audubon on a trip to Paris. Audubon would be the first artist to visit Texas a few years later in 1837 while working on sketches for, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America.
Parker returned to New Orleans in 1832. Between 1832 and 1835, Parker was making frequent trips throughout the south seeking new clients for portrait commissions. His patrons were typically wealthy, powerful, or politically connected. Parker was active in Natchez, Mobil, Montgomery, Huntsville, Charleston, Columbus, and Milledgeville, the home of Mirabeau Lamar (five of Parker's portraits hung in the Georgia State Capitol).
This portrait of Stephen F. Austin is believed to have been painted from life sometime before 1835. There are only nine other known paintings of Stephen F. Austin thought to be painted from life.
This painting was authenticated by Gregg Cantrell, Ph.D., the Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas history at Texas Christian University. Dr. Cantrell is the leading expert on Stephen F. Austin and wrote the book, Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, Yale University Press 1999. A complete report is available for review. According to the report, Dr. Rick Stewart of the Amon Carter Museum and Sam DeShong Ratcliffe, author of, Painting Texas History to 1900, have seen this portrait and report and agree with the conclusion of the author Dr. Gregg Cantrell.
This is a rare opportunity to obtain a historically important portrait of Texas' founding fathers, and one of the earliest Texas paintings in existence!
Provenance:
Helena Liebel
Margot Liebel Overby
Robert OverbyCondition Report: Relined. Scattered inpainting. Minor repaired holes or tears to background areas. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36246
CLARK BRONSON, bronze, 1982
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
CLARK BRONSON (b. 1939)
Majestic Fisherman, 1982
Bronze
20-1/2 x 22 x 15-1/2 inches (52.1 x 55.9 x 39.4 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered at base
Clark E. Bronson is a sculptor and draftsman of wildlife and animal subjects. He was a founding member of the National Association of Western Artists (NAWA) and one of America's leading big game sculptors.
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36247
CLARK BRONSON, bronze, 1980
Start Price: 4,000.00High Bid: 4,000.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
CLARK BRONSON (b. 1939)
Eagle's Conquest, 1980
Bronze
31-1/4 x 24 x 17 inches (79.4 x 61.0 x 43.2 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered at base
Clark E. Bronson is a sculptor and draftsman of wildlife and animal subjects. He was a founding member of the National Association of Western Artists (NAWA) and one of America's leading big game sculptors.
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36248
REVEAU BASSETT, Early Texas Art, gouache
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Untitled Two Ducks
Gouache on paper
8-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm)
Signed lower left
This is an early Reveau Bassett watercolor of two ducks in flight.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36249
REVEAU BASSETT, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Untitled Ducks Taking Flight
Lithograph with oil and watercolor on paper
11-3/4 x 13-3/4 inches (29.8 x 34.9 cm)
Signed lower right
This hand-embellished lithograph has been colored with oil paint and touches of watercolor.
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36250
REVEAU BASSETT, Early Texas Art, pencil
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
REVEAU BASSETT (1897-1981)
Untitled Six Ducks Taking Flight
Pencil on paper
10 x 13-1/2 inches (25.4 x 34.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Reveau Bassett
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36252
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, mosaic
Start Price: 875.00High Bid: 850.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Untitled Mosaic with Woman and Cat
Mosaic
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
John Orth was a multifaceted artist with diverse interests in subject matter, medium, and style. This accomplished mosaic is visually rich with color and movement. Great craftsmanship and many long hours went into its creation.
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36253
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 418.00High Bid: 1,300.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
The Flood
Oil on masonite
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36254
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
The Book
Oil on masonite
28 x 10 inches (71.1 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower right
John Orth has primarily been known for his still lifes and landscapes. There is, however, a body of work much less known he called psychoanalytical paintings, which often have dreamlike images full of symbolic meaning.
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36255
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 250.00High Bid: 600.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Taxco, Mexico
Oil on masonite
16-1/2 x 21 inches (41.9 x 53.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36256
DWIGHT HOLMES, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 260.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
DWIGHT HOLMES (1900-1986)
Untitled, 1977
Oil on canvasboard
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36257
DWIGHT HOLMES, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1976
Start Price: 675.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 700.00 - 900.00
DWIGHT HOLMES (1900-1986)
Verbina (sic) West of Clifton, 1976
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Titled verso
Condition Report: Good original condition with some cracking of the heavy paint layers. No losses or restorations. Unframed.
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36258
DWIGHT HOLMES, Early Texas Art, oil/board
Start Price: 375.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,500.00
DWIGHT HOLMES (1900-1986)
Red Maples, 1980
Oil on board
24 x 30 inches (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Titled verso
A vibrant Dwight Holmes painting in excellent condition.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36259
RAMON FROMAN, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
RAMON FROMAN (1908-1980)
Untitled Ramshackle Farm
Watercolor on paper
14-1/2 x 21 inches (36.8 x 53.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Ramon Froman moved to Dallas in 1946. He was both an artist and teacher. He founded the Ramon Froman School of Art in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. The school operated in the summer months for twenty-three years.
Froman specialized in portrait painting and watercolor. This is an excellent example of his watercolor technique.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36260
MARY BETH SCHWARK, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 425.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
MARY BETH SCHWARK (1954-2001)
Untitled Dallas County Courthouse, 1950
Watercolor on paper
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
A 1950 view of the Dallas County Courthouse affectionately named "Old Red." In 1919, the clock and bell tower were dismantled because of safety concerns. This year a six year restoration project was completed and a replica of the original ninety-foot-tall clock tower was installed.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36261
MARGARET TUPPER, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1958
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 190.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
MARGARET TUPPER (1887-1979)
Untitled Abandoned House, 1958
Watercolor on paper
21 x 29 inches (53.3 x 73.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Margaret Tupper was a student of Dawson Dawson-Watson and José Arpa from 1919 to 1922. She also studied with Jacob Smith, Frederic Taubes, Xavier Gonzalez, Watson Mack, and Harry Anthony DeYoung. She was active in exhibitions starting in 1926 at the San Antonio Art League. She exhibited in all three of the Edgar B. Davis Wildflower Competitions, achieving an honorable mention in 1928. She continued to exhibit in juried exhibitions from the 1930s through the late 1950s.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36262
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH, Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 260.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH (b. 1905)
Untitled Landscape with Cabin
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Alice Adkins Meredith
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition with some warping to canvasboard. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36263
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH, Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH (b. 1905)
White Rock
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of Alice Adkins MeredithCondition Report: Excellent original condition. Painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning.
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36264
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH, Texas Art, pastel
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 95.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH (b. 1905)
Landscape Portrait
Pastel on grit paper
10 x 13 inches (25.4 x 33.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of Alice Adkins Meredith
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Foxing or mold spots on paper, mostly in the sky area. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36265
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH, Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 195.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH (b. 1905)
Trees on Turtle Creek
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of Alice Adkins Meredith
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Some blanching to paint in upper left corner of painting. Canvas is dirty and would benefit from a surface cleaning. Period frame in fair condition.
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36266
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH, Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 550.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH (b. 1905)
Untitled West Texas Landscape with Mesa
Oil on masonite
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed verso
Provenance:
Estate of Alice Adkins Meredith
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent original condition. A small (1/8-inch diameter) hole has been drilled at the upper edge of the painting. The hole is located 3/8 inch from the upper edge of the painting. Painting would benefit from a surface cleaning.
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36267
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH, Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 195.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
ALICE ADKINS MEREDITH (b. 1905)
Untitled Portrait of a Girl / Still Life
Oil on masonite (double-sided)
13-3/4 x 11-3/4 inches (34.9 x 29.8 cm)
Signed verso
This painting is double-sided with a portrait of a girl on one side and a still life on the other.
Provenance:
Estate of Alice Adkins Meredith
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Both sides have minor losses, and both sides would benefit from cleaning. Period frame in good condition.
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36268
OLIN TRAVIS, Early Texas Art, oil/paper
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 500.00 - 700.00
OLIN TRAVIS (1888-1975)
Redhead
Oil and pencil on paper
12 x 9-1/2 inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36269
MARY WITHERSPOON, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 400.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
MARY WITHERSPOON (1904-1999)
Princess Melanie Metternich Miniature (after Moritz Michael Daffinger 1790-1849 Vienna)
Oil on canvas
4 x 3-1/4 inches (10.2 x 8.3 cm)
Unsigned, letter from Mary Witherspoon included with the lot
Mary Witherspoon was noted for her miniatures. This example was gifted to a close work associate at Swift & Co., Jim McWhirter. McWhirter's hobby was bookbinding and he created the slipcase and bookbinding that house this miniature. McWhirter became known as one of the best book binders in the Southwest.
Provenance:
Mary Witherspoon
Jim Ned McWhirter
Acquired by descent from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36270
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 250.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Untitled Madonna
Oil on canvas
14 x 18 inches (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36271
IGNATZ SAHULA-DYCKE, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
IGNATZ SAHULA-DYCKE (1900-1982)
The Rockies, South of Pueblo Colorado
Oil on canvasboard
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Sahula-Dycke studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. During the 1920s, he worked as a commercial artist in Chicago. In 1936, he moved to Dallas where he was employed as a commercial artist. He stayed in Dallas until 1954 when he moved to New Mexico.
Provenance:
David Dike Fine Art (label attached verso)
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36272
ANN GUILLOT, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 240.00High Bid: 240.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,500.00
ANN GUILLOT (b. 1875)
Untitled Still Life
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches (61.0 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Active mainly in the 1920s and 1930s, Ann Guillot was near the age of fifty when she started exhibiting. Her exhibition history includes most of the important venues for Early Texas Art, including the Texas Centennial Exhibition.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36273
WILLIAM HOCKER, Early Texas Art, w/c & gouache
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,000.00
WILLIAM HOCKER (b. 1918)
Untitled Still Life with Deer Skull
Watercolor and gouache on paper
20 x 27 inches (50.8 x 68.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36274
BERTHA LANDERS, Early Texas Art, gouache
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
BERTHA LANDERS (1911-1996)
Untitled Dirt Road, 1945
Gouache on paper
18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Bertha Landers attended Sul Ross State University. She also attended classes at the Dallas Art Institute, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Arts Students League. She was an active painter and printmaker. Her paintings or prints were exhibited in over seventy five museum shows regionally and nationally. She was a founding member of the Texas Printmakers and showed on their circuit from 1940 to 1960.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36275
OLIN TRAVIS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 725.00High Bid: 800.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,600.00
OLIN TRAVIS (1888-1975)
Untitled White Rock Lake
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed verso
Olin Travis lived near White Rock Lake and painted it many times over his career.
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36276
KATHRYNE HAIL TRAVIS, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 1,200.00High Bid: 1,300.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
KATHRYNE HAIL TRAVIS (1894-1972)
Sorghum Making in the Ozarks, late 1920s-early 1930s
Watercolor on paper
15 x 19 inches (38.1 x 48.3 cm)
Signed and titled verso
A fabulous regionalist watercolor. Two men are shown making sorghum molasses. They are skimming impurities from the pan where the juice from the pressed stalks is cooking and evaporating. The young boy is tending the pot where the final product is run off.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36277
ETHEL SPEARS, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1920s
Start Price: 1,000.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 1,200.00 - 2,400.00
ETHEL SPEARS (1903-1974)
Woodstock Post Office, mid 1920s
Watercolor on paper
10 x 15 inches (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled center
In the mid-1920s, Ethel Spears left the Art Institute of Chicago to spend nine months in Woodstock, New York, studying with noted artist/sculptor Alexander Archipenko. This watercolor was done at that time. It shows a lively and bustling downtown Woodstock scene in front of the Post Office. Spears' light-hearted humor is evident in just about every figure. She even paints herself into the picture behind an easel painting at the lower right.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36278
JULIUS WOELTZ, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 800.00High Bid: 800.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
JULIUS WOELTZ (1911-1956)
Courtyard of the Catholic Church in Alpine, TX, mid 1930s
Watercolor on paper
18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Julius Woeltz is one of Texas' most accomplished historic artists and muralists, but is hardly recognized today. He executed over twenty murals in the WPA period, and would probably be better known today if his life had not been cut short at the age of forty-five.
In 1932, Woeltz began a four year long association with Sul Ross State University in Alpine as the head of the art department. This vibrant watercolor is from that period and was purchased directly from the artist by the current owner who was a student of both Julius Woeltz and Xavier Gonzalez at Sul Ross.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36279
JULIUS WOELTZ, Early Texas Art, w/c 1930s
Start Price: 725.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
JULIUS WOELTZ (1911-1956)
Merriwether Ranch House, mid 1930s
Watercolor on paper
15 x 22 inches (38.1 x 55.9 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter of provenance from the current owner
The present owner of the two Julius Woeltz watercolors in this sale purchased them directly from the artist while she was a student at Sul Ross State University in the 1930s. Both Julius Woeltz and Xavier Gonzalez were her teacher.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36280
JULIUS WOELTZ, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1930s
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
JULIUS WOELTZ (1911-1956)
Untitled, 1930s
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter of provenance
Julius Woeltz first studied art under Wilson K. Nixon, Jose Arpa, and Xavier Gonzalez. He then traveled to Paris for study at the Academy Julian, and later the Art Institute of Chicago where he was awarded two scholarships. Woeltz taught in San Antonio, and in 1932, he was appointed head of the art department at Sul Ross State Teachers College. Woeltz won extensive commissions from the WPA for post offices, federal buildings, and military posts. From 1941 to 1951, he taught at the University of Texas in Austin. One of Texas' most accomplished artists (but little known today), he died a tragic death at the age of forty five.
This unsigned painting was purchased at an estate auction of an Ohio State University professor who was friends with Julius Woeltz. At the sale it was stated that the painting was known by the family to be by Julius Woeltz. A written statement from the owner is included with the painting.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36281
BERLA EMEREE, Early Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
BERLA EMEREE (1899-1948)
House in El Paso
Oil on canvas
15 x 26 inches (38.1 x 66.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
A heavily impastoed composition of an El Paso home. The thick paint echos the texture of a real stucco wall. The red clay roof tiles and the red flowers in the garden provide an accent of warm color to balance the cool blues of the front door and shadows.Condition Report: Excellent condition with two minor repaired punctures. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36282
XAVIER GONZALEZ, Early Texas Art, oil, 1930s
Start Price: 1,200.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 5,000.00
XAVIER GONZALEZ (1898-1993)
Untitled Brewster County, West Texas, mid 1930s
Oil on masonite
16 x 19-1/2 inches (40.6 x 49.5 cm)
Signed lower left
From 1933 through 1939, Xavier Gonzalez served as the director of the Summer School of Art at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. Paintings from this period of Gonzalez' career are desirable and much rarer than his later work.
As with the two Julius Woeltz watercolors, the two Gonzalez Texas oils were acquired directly from the artist by the current owner while she was an art student at Sul Ross State University.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36283
XAVIER GONZALEZ, Early Texas Art, oil, 1930s
Start Price: 725.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
XAVIER GONZALEZ (1898-1993)
Untitled Ranch House and Windmill, mid 1930s
Oil on masonite
10-1/2 x 14 inches (26.7 x 35.6 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter of provenance from the current owner
The present owner purchased the two Xavier Gonzalez oil on masonite paintings directly from the artist while she was a student at Sul Ross State University in the 1930s.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36284
AUDLEY DEAN NICOLS, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 9,000.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
AUDLEY DEAN NICOLS (1875-1941)
Oracle Ariz-Across the San Pedro Valley
Oil on canvas
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and titled lower left
Titled verso
Audley Dean Nicols first came to El Paso in the 1920s for health reasons. He had contracted tuberculosis and was looking for a dry climate. Nicols grew to love the Southwestern landscape. Nicols specialized in painting the desert areas of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California.Condition Report: Excellent original condition without restoration, however varnish has yellowed and painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36285
E. L. BOONE, Early Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,700.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
E. L. BOONE (1883-1952)
Untitled Desert Landscape
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
E. L. Boone studied art at the Smith School of Art and the Chicago Art Institute. Upon graduation he moved to Montana and painted with Charles M. Russell. Due to failing health he moved in 1927 to the dryer climate of El Paso, where he made his home until his death. He was one of the founders of the annual Sun Carnival Art Exhibition, and the Far Southwest Artists Association, organizations instrumental in the development of early El Paso art.Condition Report: Relined. Scattered inpainting, mainly in sky. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36286
EUGENE THURSTON, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 1,800.00High Bid: 1,800.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
EUGENE THURSTON (1896-1993)
Van Horn Mountains, 1930s to 1940s
Oil on artistboard
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
Born into an art family, Eugene Thurston's first lessons were from his mother, Fern, a fixture of the El Paso artist community. He first started in art as a cartoonist and commercial artist producing advertisements for local businesses. In the 1920s, he was encouraged by Audley Dean Nichols, Harry Wagoner, and his mother. He was a charter member of the El Paso Artists Association and one of its earliest presidents. He primarily exhibited in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and California.
Provenance:
David Dike Fine ArtCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36287
FRANK CHILTON, Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 1,500.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
FRANK CHILTON (unknown)
Untitled Desert Panorama
Oil on canvas
22 x 42 inches (55.9 x 106.7 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Canvas is relined. Two areas of inpaint in the sky. New frame in good condition.
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36288
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 4,875.00High Bid: 17,000.00Estimate: 7,500.00 - 15,000.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Untitled Desert Garden
Oil on masonite
48 x 96 inches (121.9 x 243.8 cm)
Signed lower right
This monumental painting shows the desert in full bloom. Dramatic theater-like back lighting emanates from behind layered clumps of clouds. The sky is full of color, and Orth successfully paints the hazy atmospherics of the mountains in the far distance. The grand scale of this painting gives the viewer the full effect of a great western panorama.
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36289
JOHN ORTH, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 800.00High Bid: 2,200.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 3,000.00
JOHN ORTH (1889-1976)
Night Rider
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right
A fabulous nocturnal scene. The layering of clouds and the bright moon give the illusion of great depth. The rider's shadow and the reflections off of the lake bring great drama to the scene. A small still light in the window of the house adds a touch more to the mystery.
Provenance:
Estate of John OrthCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36290
PETER HURD, watercolor
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 4,250.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
PETER HURD (1904-1984)
San Patricio, New Mexico
Watercolor on paper
8-1/2 x 9 inches (21.6 x 22.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Master watercolorist Peter Hurd paints San Patricio, the small Hondo River Valley, where he made his home for many years. Hurd's ranch, the Sentinel Ranch, is now owned by his son and artist, Michael Hurd, who carries on the tradition of his father to this day.Condition Report: Excellent condition Period frame in excellent condition.
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36291
ZHEN HUAN LU, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1958
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
ZHEN HUAN LU (b. 1958)
Untitled Western Still Life, 1958
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Zhen Huan Lu was born in China. His paintings have been exhibited widely and several are in the collection of the China National Art Museum. Lu had his first one-man show in New York City in 1986, and has subsequently immigrated to this country. Recently, Lu was honored by being selected to be the official painter for the 2002 White House Christmas card collection.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36292
RUTH MONRO AUGUR, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 2,500.00High Bid: 2,500.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
RUTH MONRO AUGUR (1886-1967)
Untitled Cowboy Smoking
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower left
A well executed cattle drive scene from Ruth Munro Augur.Condition Report: Sky has some strengthening. New frame in excellent condition.
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36293
RUTH MONRO AUGUR, Early Texas Art, charcoal
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
RUTH MONRO AUGUR (1886-1967)
Mural Study - Indians Raiding a Stagecoach
Charcoal and graphite on paper
22-1/4 x 41-3/4 inches (56.5 x 106.0 cm)
Signed lower left
A dynamic composition of an Indian party raiding a stagecoach. Rifles are blazing from every opening of the stagecoach while the Indians encircle the stagecoach in a clockwise direction. Both sides in this life and death struggle have killed or wounded.Condition Report: Paper has creases where it had been folded. Overall toning of paper. New frame in excellent condition.
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36294
RUTH MONRO AUGUR, Early Texas Art, pencil & ink
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
RUTH MONRO AUGUR (1886-1967)
The Streets of Yesterday
Pencil and ink on paper
11-1/2 x 17 inches (29.2 x 43.2 cm)
Signed lower left
The following is inscribed verso on this drawing by Ruth Monro Augur:
Headpiece for article "The Street of Yesterday in the City of Today," by
Monro Augur
5125 1/2 Monte Vista Street
Los Angeles, CA
Illustration #1 of 6 sent with article
Caption: "The Avila Adobe"
Provenance:
Estate of Ruth Monro Augur
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Condition Report: Good condition with a one-half inch tear to the upper margin and creasing in the upper left corner. New frame in excellent condition.
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36295
RUTH MONRO AUGUR, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1930s
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
RUTH MONRO AUGUR (1886-1967)
Mural Study - Communication and Travel, 1930s
Oil on canvas stretched over plywood
20 x 49-3/4 inches (50.8 x 126.4 cm)
Signed lower right
This painting was probably executed as a mural study for a WPA post office or public building. The theme is communication and travel. The mural is composed of four vignettes.
The first shows communications and travel of the Indians. Within the scene is an Indian traveling by canoe, an Indian runner, and Indians sending a message via smoke signal.
The second vignette shows travel and communications of the Spanish explorers via galleon, and what was then an innovation to the Americas, the horse.
The third vignette shows both Paul Revere, as well as an American clipper ship.
The fourth vignette shows a Mississippi riverboat, a western stage coach, and a Pony Express rider.
Provenance:
Estate of Ruth Monro Augur
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Canvas stretched over plywood (but not glued or laid down).
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36296
CARL SMITH, Early Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 3,375.00High Bid: 3,500.00Estimate: 3,500.00 - 4,500.00
CARL SMITH (b. 1928)
Untitled Riders in Blowing Snow
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Carl Smith is an artist of the Texas Panhandle. He has had many shows over the years, including at the Thomas Gilcrease Museum, and Grand Central Gallery in New York. Primarily working in oil paint, Smith is best known for his subtle coloring, great depth, and atmosphere his paintings achieve.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36297
E. M. "BUCK" SCHIWETZ, Early TX Art, w/c, 1969
Start Price: 1,700.00High Bid: 7,500.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
E. M. "BUCK" SCHIWETZ (1898-1984)
The Dietrich Rode Place Cherry Springs, Tex., 1969
Watercolor, pastel, and ink on brown paper
14-7/8 x 19-3/4 inches (37.8 x 50.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
E. M. "Buck" Schiwetz was one of Texas's most celebrated watercolorists. He studied at the Arts Students League in New York. Returning to Texas in 1929, he became partner in a successful advertising agency. He continued to paint his characteristic watercolors of sights around the state of Texas. Humble Oil and Refining Company, a client of Schiwetz, regularly published his drawings, watercolors, and pastels in the magazine, Humble Way, exposing tens of thousands to Schiwetz's art.
Provenance:
Long & Company, Houston, TexasCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36298
BERLA EMEREE, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 500.00High Bid: 1,300.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
BERLA EMEREE (1899-1948)
Untitled Adobe and Shack
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
A long time resident of El Paso, Berla Emeree studied art in Philadelphia with Frank Ashley Linton and Michael Jacobs. In Texas she studied with Jose Arpa, Xavier Gonzalez, and Rolla Taylor. Known for her adventurous spirit, Emeree was fearless in traveling alone in her car, camping out in the open in often dangerous areas. She was known to finance her adventures by trading her paintings for gasoline or food.
Provenance:
Mr. & Mrs. Everett A. R. Searl
Don KippCondition Report: Excellent condition. Minor inpainting.
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36299
FRED DARGE, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
FRED DARGE (1900-1978)
Afternoon Shadows (Cloudcroft, New Mexico)
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of Fred Darge
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36300
FRED DARGE, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
FRED DARGE (1900-1978)
Working the Garden (Lincoln New Mexico)
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of Fred Darge
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36301
FRED DARGE, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
FRED DARGE (1900-1978)
Riding Stable (Cloudcroft New Mexico)
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of Fred Darge
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36302
FRED DARGE, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 1,200.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
FRED DARGE (1900-1978)
Early Morning
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Fred Darge loved to paint horses and the daily life of the working cowboys. This painting has a frame designed and made by the artist.Condition Report: Excllent condition with no restorations. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36303
FRED DARGE, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 350.00High Bid: 500.00Estimate: 500.00 - 1,000.00
FRED DARGE (1900-1978)
Hondo Valley
Oil on canvasboard
6 x 7 inches (15.2 x 17.8 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
A small gem by Darge.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36304
FRED DARGE, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
FRED DARGE (1900-1978)
Early Morning Shafter Texas
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of Fred Darge
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36305
FRED DARGE, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 14,500.00High Bid: 34,000.00Estimate: 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
FRED DARGE (1900-1978)
Going Home Big Bend Country Texas
Oil on canvas
24 x 32 inches (61.0 x 81.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Fred Darge received his training at two of the most prestigious art schools in the United States: The Art Institute of Chicago and The Art Students League in New York. His first job was a commercial artist, but he was soon unemployed because of the deepening Great Depression. Displaced and out of work, Darge moved to San Antonio to be nearer to West Texas. He had toured West Texas in 1929, and was determined to further explore the area and its artistic possibilities.
In 1935, Darge moved to Dallas. He would spend the warm months traveling to West Texas between Big Bend, El Paso, and the Davis Mountains, and northward into New Mexico. The cold months would then be spent in Dallas finishing the paintings he had started earlier in the year.
Darge became the foremost chronicler of ranch life in Texas. After World War II, he purchased an old ambulance and converted it into a mobile studio, spending 1946 to 1978 traveling and painting throughout Texas and New Mexico.
In this large canvas Darge uses cloud forms and mountains to create a decorative backdrop to hold his horses and riders. Clumps of sagebrush reinforce the decorative effect. Darge uses front lighting to create a dramatic effect. The canvas comes alive with bright and harmonious colors.
Darge is possibly the best early Texas artist at painting horses. In this painting, if one looks carefully, each horse seems to exude its own distinct personality. The rider on the right appears to be an experienced older cowboy, possibly a father figure, while the rider on the left, a young ranch hand or son.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36306
OSCAR JACOBSON, Oil on linen, 1952
Start Price: 7,500.00High Bid: 12,000.00Estimate: 7,500.00 - 15,000.00
OSCAR JACOBSON (1882-1966)
Resting on the Trail, 1952
Oil on linen
22 x 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Oscar Jacobson was the most important early art figure in Oklahoma. A student of Birger Sandzen, he graduated from Bethany College in Linsborg, Kansas, in 1908. He subsequently studied at the Louvre in Paris and took his graduate study at Yale University. From 1915 to 1945, he was head of the art department at the University of Oklahoma. In 1916, with Nan Sheets he organized the Association of Oklahoma Artists. He also assisted the WPA and Treasury Art Project as a technical advisor through the depression years. His work promoting Indian artists brought him international recognition with the recognition of Kiowa Indian Art, specifically the art of the so called "Kiowa Five."
His paintings were characterized by a stylization which was quite avant garde for its day. He was also known for his innovative use of color.
In this painting the repetitive use of the Longhorn and hill forms set up the internal "rhythm" of the composition. The three central cowboys with different color shirts break this rhythm and become the central focal point of the composition. Forms are simplified and detail is left out. The result is a balanced, pleasing, and decorative effect.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36307
BEN CARLTON MEAD, Early Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 15,500.00High Bid: 15,000.00Estimate: 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
BEN CARLTON MEAD (1902-1986)
Santa Ynez Mission
Oil on linen
36 x 60 inches (91.4 x 152.4 cm)
Signed lower left
Ben Carlton Mead was born in Bay City and lived in Amarillo, Lamesa, Plainview, and Tulsa. Mead studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, focusing on illustration and commercial art. In 1932, he moved back to Amarillo to live in his ranch home in Palo Duro Canyon, and teach at Amarillo College. That same year, the Witte Museum commissioned Mead to sketch the Indian pictographs in Edwards County.
Mead lived and worked in Dallas from 1941 to 1967 as art director for an advertising agency. Besides his advertising career, Mead had a successful career in magazine and book illustration, focusing primarily on southwestern scenes and themes. He worked with J. Frank Dobie on Coronado's Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest, I'll Tell You a Tale, and Cow People. He also worked with Frontier Times and True West magazines.
Once retired, he was able to focus on his historic research and southwestern painting. In 1981, he settled in Santa Ynez Valley. This painting is his last great historic painting before he died.
The Santa Ynez Mission was founded in 1804 to serve the peaceful Chumash Indians and serve as a link between the Santa Barbara and La Purisima Concepcion Missions. An 1817 inventory of Mission Santa Ynez listed 6,000 head of cattle, 5,000 sheep, 120 goats, 150 pigs, 120 pack mules, and 770 horses. In that year, the mission baptismal book recorded 1,030 names, most of which were Indian. Also recorded were 287 marriages and 611 deaths. The mission registered its greatest Indian population that same year with a total of 920 Native Americans.
Having experienced many changes since its founding, often times tumultuous ones, Mission Santa Ynez remains rich in tradition, legend, and history. The mission, which commands a superb view of the Santa Ynez River Valley and the Santa Ynez and San Raphael mountain ranges, continues its central role in the social and spiritual life of the community. The mission is an active parish church of approximately 1,000 families and is administered by the Franciscan order.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36308
TREW HOCKER, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 7,250.00High Bid: 7,000.00Estimate: 7,500.00 - 15,000.00
TREW HOCKER (1913-dec.)
Untitled Haying Scene
Oil on masonite
28 x 38 inches (71.1 x 96.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Trew Hocker was born in Sedalia, MO, on June 17, 1913. He studied at the University of Missouri, Kansas City Art Institute, and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He also studied under Thomas Hart Benton. Hocker painted murals for the New York World's Fair and the San Francisco Exposition. He was a District Supervisor of WPA Art Program and later developed graphic training aids for the AAF in World War II. In the 1950s, Hocker designed sets for television and stage, including the 1950s series, Ellery Queen, starring Richard Hart. He also painted mural decorations for stores, restaurants, and colleges. He settled in New York City in 1947. His death date is unknown.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36309
H. W. CAYLOR, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 14,500.00High Bid: 14,000.00Estimate: 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
H. W. CAYLOR (1867-1932)
Middle Concho
Oil on canvas
14 x 20 inches (35.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower right
H. W. Caylor was one of the few Texas artists who witnessed and documented the closing days of the open range, the Longhorn, and cattle drives. However, Caylor was more than just a casual observer. At the age of twelve he got his first job as a cowboy. He traveled through Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. While earning money as a cow puncher he was constantly sketching. Part cowboy and part itinerant artist, Caylor had a passion for both of these avocations.
By 1890, Caylor moved to Texas around the Big Spring area. Out of savings from his painting and sketching, Caylor purchased a horse-drawn wagon with a rigid top and canvas panels. Together with his newly-wed wife and wagon, Caylor camped at the Fore Ranch in northern Sterling County for the better part of a year. Caylor insisted on fresh air no matter how bad the weather and politely declined invitations by the owners to share the hospitality of the ranch home. He preferred sleeping on the open range. During this year, Caylor spent his time sketching the land, cattle, wild animals, and the Concho River, which had its headwaters a few miles to the south. It was during this period that he gathered the ideas and materials for several oil paintings he did later of the Concho River (including this painting).
Middle Concho depicts the life giving qualities of water in mostly barren West Texas. Caylor often painted cactus-filled, barren landscapes, but this scene is lush and green with the water from the flowing river. In the foreground, two Longhorns are relaxing in the shade. In the midground, two Longhorns are grazing on the banks.
The Middle Concho was an important part of the western-most Goodnight-Loving Trail. The trail followed the river's westward course toward the Pecos river, which then turns northward into New Mexico and Colorado, supplying Texas cattle to those markets. The importance of rivers and watering holes along the trail made the cattle drives possible, and there is no coincidence that the Goodnight-Loving Trail followed the course of both the Middle Concho and the Pecos rivers. This trail was one of the heaviest used in the southwest, and Caylor's "camping spot," just a few miles north of the Middle Concho headwaters, gave him a great vantage point for observing the waning days of the open range and cattle drives.
Another painting titled Middle Concho (14 in. x 18 in., oil on canvas), is illustrated on page 99 of the book, H. W. Caylor Frontier Artist, by Texas A & M Press. It shows a similar scene on the Concho, but with a cowboy watering his horse.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36310
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 8,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled Industrial Scene
Oil on canvas
18 x 22 inches (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
The current exhibition at the Panhandle Plains Museum, Urban Texas: Changing Images of an Evolving State, shows Texas artists increasingly depicted the urbanization of the state as economic and population growth began to transform Texas from a mainly agrarian society. Regionalist artists like Lloyd Goff, who were coming of age in the late 1920s and 1930s, were the generation first affected by these changes. In this painting, Lloyd Goff explores the pictorial possibilities of a large industrial plant. He uses the geometric arrangement of the buildings and smokestacks as a strong design element. He plays these strong linear elements against the organic design elements of billowing smoke in the sky and bushes in the foreground. The resulting painting is a masterpiece of light, color, and form.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Relined with minor scattered inpainting. Unframed.
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36311
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, oil/cb
Start Price: 1,100.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Girl with Hoop, late 1920s to early 1930s
Oil on canvasboard
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Signed and titled verso
A vibrant painting of a young black girl rolling her hoop while guiding it with a stick. This simple game was very popular in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lloyd Goff's execution of this small oil is characterized with confident, spontaneous brushwork and thick impasto. Paint directly from the tube is applied to the surface letting the action of the brush do any color mixing.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd Goff
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36312
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 850.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,200.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Over Paris Roofs (Looking Toward Montmart)
Oil on canvasboard
10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
One can only imagine the sense of wonder and excitement twenty-year-old Lloyd Goff, aspiring artist from Dallas, Texas, was feeling when he painted this picture. Barely out of his teens, and from a small city yet to come into its own, he was in the most cosmopolitan city in the world wondering through the neighborhoods and backstreets of Paris.
A small masterpiece of light and color, this canvas retains a freshness and state of preservation not normally seen in paintings nearly eighty years old. This is due to having been stacked, unframed, beneath other works, which protected it from the effects of oxidation, vibration, and light.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36313
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, oil/cb
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 475.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled Paris Street Scene, 1928
Oil on canvasboard
9-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches (23.5 x 19.1 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36314
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, oil/linen, 1928
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 650.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled Paris Street Scene, 1928
Oil on linen
9-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches (24.1 x 19.1 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
Goff loved the narrow streets and back alleys of Paris. His paintings from that period are characterized by vivid colors, thick impasto, and confident brushwork.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36315
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982) Untitled Paris Street
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled Paris Street Scene, 1928
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
This light-filled small canvas is replete with confident and bravura brushwork.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd Goff
Condition Report: Excellent relined condition with minor inpainting. Unframed.
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36316
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982), Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 400.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled Notre Dame, 1928
Oil on paper
8 x 9-1/2 inches (20.3 x 24.1 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
This canvas retains a freshness and state of preservation not normally seen in paintings nearly eighty years old. It is due to having been unstretched and stacked beneath other works, thus protected from the effects of oxidation, vibration, and light.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36317
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art w/c, 1940
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 700.00Estimate: 1,200.00 - 2,400.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Rio Grande Valley/Lower Manhattan, 1940
Watercolor on paper
15-1/4 x 22-1/4 inches (38.7 x 56.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
A fabulously executed double-sided watercolor of the very different worlds that Lloyd Goff lived and painted; the rural landscape of West Texas and New Mexico, and on the other side, the New York metropolis.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36318
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art oil/paper
Start Price: 500.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Lark Barber Shop, late 1930s to early 1940s
Oil on paper
21 x 15-3/4 inches (53.3 x 40.0 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
Titled center
Lark, Texas, was platted in 1903 as a result of the building of the Chicago Rock Island and Gulf Railway lines. It was named after an area rancher, Lark Strangler. The legendary Route 66 also ran through the town, but like many small towns on that famous highway, it was bypassed with the construction of the interstate.
Lloyd Goff is the foremost chronicler of this most famous of America's roads. He regularly traveled Route 66 between Texas and New Mexico during its heyday between the 1930s and 1940s. He recorded the small towns, tourist traps, scenery, and local inhabitants. In this painting the small town local barbershop is shown as more than just a place to get your hair cut, but rather a cultural institution: a place to gossip, hang out, and watch the world pass by on old Route 66.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36319
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, oil on paper
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled End of the Line, late 1930s to early 1940s
Oil on paper
16 x 20-1/2 inches (40.6 x 52.1 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
In far West Texas the end of the rail line is more or less equivalent to the edge of civilization.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd Goff
Condition Report: Excellent condition with minor loss to lower left and small tear at upper edge. Unframed.
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36320
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, oil on paper
Start Price: 550.00High Bid: 550.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled West Texas Ranch, late 1930s to early 1940s
Oil on paper
10 x 24 inches (25.4 x 61.0 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
Goff appropriately chooses a horizontal format to depict this far West Texas ranch where both the horizon and the fence lines seem to extend without bounds in either direction. In this part of Texas, land is measured in sections (640 acres or one square mile) instead of acres, and ranchers talk of how many acres per head of cattle instead of how many head of cattle per acre.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition with minor losses at each corner. Unframed.
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36321
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982), Early Texas Art, 1941
Start Price: 3,875.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled Painted Lady, 1941
Oil on canvasboard
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Like the Ashcan School of painters before him, Lloyd Goff enjoyed portraying the common man and the "bottom crust" of society. He eschewed the "high and mighty."
In this nude, Goff's subject is a young lady of Hispanic origin, as evidenced by her hair, complexion, and the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the background. She is wearing nothing except a golden cross, a gold-hoop earring, and a single pink slipper.
In spite of the picture of the Virgin over her bed and the gold cross she is wearing, the woman's painted lips, heavily rouged cheeks, heavy eye make up, and the high heel pumps by the bed tell the rest of the story.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36322
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, oil/panel, 1942
Start Price: 3,000.00High Bid: 3,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
The Pickup Crew, 1942
Oil on panel
11 x 14 inches (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed and titled verso
Signed and dated lower left
Lloyd Goff was fond of painting the hot air balloons that are frequently seen in the skies around Albuquerque. Many are later paintings, but this is a particularly early (1942), and fine example.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36323
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art gouache, 1937
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 450.00Estimate: 800.00 - 1,200.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Atlantic Baths, 1937
Gouache on paper
10-1/4 x 14-1/4 inches (26.0 x 36.2 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
Titled center
Lloyd Goff was the mural assistant to Reginald Marsh for the U. S. Customs House mural in 1937. Paintings from this period indicate Goff accompanied Marsh in his explorations of the "bottom crust" of New York society. Like Marsh, Goff was interested in Bowery Bums, vulgar party-goers, and yes, Coney Island.
This scene is located on the corner of West 8th Street and the Boardwalk. The famous Coney Island roller coaster "Cyclone" and the "Wonder Wheel" Ferris wheel are prominent in the composition.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36324
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, wc and gouache, 194
Start Price: 725.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Jardin de La Union, Guanajuato, 1949
Watercolor and gouache on paper
11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled and dated verso
Exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, this gouache is another fine example of painting that Lloyd Goff did while in Mexico. The painting is wonderfully composed with bright and vivid color.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd Goff
Exhibited:
Whitney Museum of Art, 1954 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36325
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, wc & gouache, 1940s
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Volcano (Agua) Antiqua, Guatemala, 1940s
Watercolor and gouache on paper
13 x 17 inches (33.0 x 43.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
A vibrant and active watercolor, the verso reveals it was shown and exhibited at the Kraushaar Gallery on 57th Street in New York City. In the first half of the 1900s, Kraushaar was one of the most prestigious and respected galleries in the United States. Goff's inclusion as a gallery artist reveals the wide acclaim and recognition he had achieved as an artist, not only in Texas, but in New York and in the rest of the country.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd Goff
Exhibited:
Kraushaar Gallery Exhibition (label verso)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36326
LLOYD GOFF , Early Texas Art w/c, 1953
Start Price: 550.00High Bid: 1,200.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Yucatan, 1953
Gouache and watercolor on artist board
21 x 17 inches (53.3 x 43.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
This watercolor is a small scale version of the major 1939 Lloyd Goff oil and duco (40 in. x 30 in.) painting titled, Pabellones (Mosquito Nets) Yucatan. Goff frequently painted in Mexico during his career, and in fact is one of the few Texas Regionalists to have a one-man show in that country.
A publicity photo of the oil by Otto E. Nelson Fine Art Photography of New York City is included with this lot. This watercolor is a virtual mirror image of the oil.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition with minor tear to left edge near bottom. Unframed.
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36327
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 95.00High Bid: 100.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Untitled Mural Study
Watercolor and gouache on paper
7 x 4-1/2 inches (17.8 x 11.4 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
A colorful design for a mural or stained glass window.Condition Report: Repaired tear. Unframed.
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36328
MIMI MURPHEY, Early Texas Art, wood sculp. 1967
Start Price: 1,000.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
MIMI MURPHEY (1912-1985)
Raptor Family, 1967
Wood sculpture
21-3/8 x 14 x 5-1/2 inches (54.3 x 35.6 x 14.0 cm)
Signed and dated at rear
Mimi Murphey was born in Dallas and attended both SMU and the Dallas Art Institute. Afterwards she continued studies at the Art Students League and the New York Clay Club. Her mentor was the noted sculptress, Eugenie Shonnard.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36329
DWIGHT HOLMES, Early Texas Art, oil/ 1948
Start Price: 6,750.00High Bid: 6,500.00Estimate: 7,000.00 - 9,000.00
DWIGHT HOLMES (1900-1986)
Painted East of Tyler Texas, 1948
Oil on canvas
24 x 40 inches (61.0 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Dwight Holmes was a renaissance man. He was a landscape painter, muralist, graphic artist, architectural modeler, sculptor, interior decorator, teacher, cartographer, and painting restorer.
In 1918, Holmes enrolled at Texas Christian University. A student with much promise, he became an assistant instructor even before his graduation in 1923. From 1925 to 1935, Holmes worked creating architectural moldings and reliefs for the Southern Plastic Relief Company. His architectural decorations adorn buildings all over the south and southwest. In 1929, he received a commission to paint the murals at the Jockey Club at the Arlington Downs horse track.
Dwight Holmes moved his home and studio to San Angelo. Its central location enabled him convenient access to the areas he loved to paint - Abilene, Big Bend, Fort Davis, New Mexico, Colorado, the Texas Hill Country, and East Texas. He painted these areas for over sixty years and left behind a large legacy of the Texas landscape.
This large painting, dated 1948, is an excellent example of Holmes' finer work.Condition Report: Relined. Heavy restorations in the sky. No restorations in trees or landscape. New framed in excellent condition.
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36330
MANUEL ACOSTA, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 6,750.00High Bid: 6,500.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
MANUEL ACOSTA (1921-1989)
La Ventana Amarilla
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Signed upper left
Signed and titled verso
Manuel Acosta grew up in the barrios of El Paso. After World War II, he attended the College of Mines and Metallurgy (now UTEP), and then a year at the Chouinard Art Institute. Upon returning to El Paso, he became Peter Hurd's mural assistant. As one of America's leading regionalist painters, Hurd encouraged Acosta to embrace his Mexican American heritage in his work. Subsequently, the people and scenes of El Paso's barrios became Acosta's primary subject matter, and to his credit, Acosta became Texas' leading interpreter of Mexican American way of life in Texas.
This painting is of a neighbor and friend of Manuel Acosta. Her yellow kitchen, filled with the sweet chirping sounds of parakeets, was a place of gathering and social discourse. Outside the window is the typical courtyard found in Mexican influenced homes in the Southwest. Seated in her chair is the benevolent queen of the household, hands peacefully crossed in her soft pink housedress.
Acosta is the master visual storyteller, recording the colors, people, and life of his beloved El Paso.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36331
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, oil, 1943
Start Price: 19,500.00High Bid: 15,000.00Estimate: 25,000.00 - 35,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
Still Life with Yellow Drape, 1943
Oil on masonite
20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and titled verso
Charles Bowling moved to Dallas in 1910. He worked for Texas Power and Light as a draftsman and was later head of the drafting department. Bowling began painting in 1926. He studied under Frank Klepper, Alexandre Hogue, and Olin Travis. In his later years, Bowling was forced to quit painting as a result of failing eyesight. He was a founding member of the Lone Star Printmakers and had his own press. According to the Bowling family, this painting was painted in 1943, and was painted as a result of the very successful watercolor, Meadow Wind, 1942, which won the Ted Dealey Purchase Prize at the Dallas Museum of Art. This painting was in Bowling's personal collection when he died and has remained in the family until now.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36332
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1962
Start Price: 5,750.00High Bid: 6,000.00Estimate: 7,000.00 - 10,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
Evening Thunder Heads, 1962
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
A dramatic and colorful composition of clouds and land. The overlapping forms of landscape elements and cloud forms give this painting an illusion of volume and depth.
This painting may have been exhibited, as there are four thumb tacks and label remnants attached to the stretcher and frame.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36333
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, o/ab, 1940s
Start Price: 3,875.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
Untitled Early Autumn Jefferson, Texas, mid-1940s
Oil on artistboard
12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed lower left
Charles Bowling's job with the Texas Power and Light Company gave him opportunity to travel around the state, particularly East Texas. According to the artist's grandson, this painting was done in early autumn in Jefferson, Texas, sometime between 1944 and 1946.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Varnish has yellowed and the painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36334
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, litho, 1939
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
Industrial Encroachment, 1939
Lithograph on paper
10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This prize-winning lithograph depicts Dallas' Little Mexico neighborhood. The artist contrasts decrepit shacks in the foreground with modern industrial plants in the background. One gets the feeling that the shanties have little hope of surviving Dallas' coming industrialization.
The lithograph now seems a bit prophetic. Whittled down over many years to industrial and downtown development, the remaining vestiges of the Little Mexico neighborhood are now threatened by the Uptown and Victory Park areas. This lithograph is a superb technical achievement with its rich tonalities from black through light grays. The print has a small edition size (Ed. 15) and this example is in excellent condition.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)
Exhibited:
Dallas Museum of Art, Sanger Brothers Prize, Tenth Annual Dallas Allied Arts ExhibitionCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36335
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
Storm Lit Hills
Lithograph on paper
9-1/2 x 13 inches (24.1 x 33.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This prize-winning print is quite a technical achievement for a lithograph. Normally stone lithographs are ill suited for displaying different levels of grayscale. Bowling is able to push his medium to at least six or seven levels of gray without the cross-hatching technique normally used by lithographers. In addition, Bowling uses a needle on the stone to "scratch in" details like the tips of tree limbs, details in the foreground grass, and the peaks of the dominant hills. This technique of scratching details in the stone is rarely used because it then requires repolishing of the stone's surface before reuse.
This beautiful and technically accomplished print comes directly from the artist's collection.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)
Exhibited:
Dallas Museum of Art, Lawrence Barrett Purchase Prize, Second Annual Texas Print Exhibition, 1942Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36336
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 1,700.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
Smoke and Snow
Lithograph on paper
10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This rare and small edition-sized (Ed. 10) print comes from the artist's personal collection.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36337
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 800.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
White Cliffs
Lithograph
9-1/4 x 13 inches (23.5 x 33.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This is a rare and desirable Bowling lithograph. It comes from the artist's personal collection, is in excellent condition, and has never been mounted.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36338
CHARLES BOWLING, Early Texas Art, litho, 1938
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 1,300.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
CHARLES BOWLING (1891-1995)
Cedar and Whiterock, 1938
Lithograph
10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
One of Charles Bowling's best known images. The Texas cedar, which is one of the dominant tree species in the Hill Country, is raised to iconic status in this print. This print is in excellent condition and has never been mounted.
Provenance:
Charles Bowling
Frances Layne (daughter)
Pat Layne (grandson)Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36339
TOM LEA, Early Texas Art, charcoal & graphite
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 8,000.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 20,000.00
TOM LEA (1907-2007)
Prelim Drawing for Lone and Wide
Charcoal and graphite on paper
44 x 55 inches (111.8 x 139.7 cm)
Signed and titled lower right
This large-scale study by Tom Lea is a 1:1 scale-up for his major painting, Lone and Wide. The composition emphasizes the vast expanse of the West Texas horizon. The clouds are monumental and fill much of the composition, but the solitary rider firmly anchors the foreground, his jaw firmly set with a determined look on his face. He has traveled a long distance and probably has a long way still to go -- the lot of a cowboy on the open range.
Provenance:
Acquired by descent from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Paper wrinkled but otherwise in good condition. It is lightly affixed (not laid down) to foam-core board. Paper will separate from foam-core with light manual pressure. Frame in fair condition.
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36340
TOM LEA, Texas Art, pastel, 1994
Start Price: 7,750.00High Bid: 8,000.00Estimate: 10,000.00 - 20,000.00
TOM LEA (1907-2007)
Canyon, 1994
Pastel on paper
25-1/4 x 19-1/4 inches (64.1 x 48.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
This pastel is an abstracted version of Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park.
Tom Lea experimented with geometric abstraction as early as 1927 (see pages 8, 39, 70, 154, 157, 165, and 238, in The Art of Tom Lea, by Texas A & M Press) and revisited the technique throughout his long and accomplished career.
Provenance:
Adair Margo GalleryCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36341
EVERETT SPRUCE, Early Texas Art, oil, 1940s
Start Price: 29,000.00High Bid: 47,500.00Estimate: 30,000.00 - 40,000.00
EVERETT SPRUCE (1908-2002)
Roadrunner, early 1940s
Oil on linen
20 x 26 inches (50.8 x 66.0 cm)
Unsigned, bears the writing of Spruce on the stretcher
From his earliest days in Conway, Arkansas, Everett Spruce was fascinated with the rural landscape and the creatures which inhabited the hills and hollows during the day, and especially at night when nature's mystery comes alive. His love of the land and the animals that dwell in it became fully embodied with his discovery of the Big Bend region of Texas. Spruce is Texas' greatest chronicler of the dry desert regions of Texas and the animals of that land. This canvas is an excellent example of Spruce's interpretation of one of Texas' iconic creatures.Condition Report: Original canvas in good condition. Two repaired tears and one touch up: two-inch repaired tear in sky to the right of roadrunner's beak; one-half inch tear/hole at end of roadrunner's tail; and one-half inch area of inpaint in sky. New frame in excellent condition.
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36342
MERRITT MAUZEY, Early Texas Art, oil, 1930s
Start Price: 57,500.00High Bid: 75,000.00Estimate: 60,000.00 - 120,000.00
MERRITT MAUZEY (1897-1973)
Grandpa Snazzy, 1930s
Oil on masonite
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Merritt Mauzey's painting, Grandpa Snazzy, is an iconic image of the plight of the Dust Bowl and depression-era, dry-land cotton sharecropper. Dirt poor, barefoot, and without mechanized implements, he plows marginal and inhospitable land. The sky and horizon are no longer blue, but tinted brown and orange with hundreds of tons of what was once top soil. During this time, farmers were dealt a double blow, as the worldwide Great Depression ignited a trade war in 1930, resulting in a total collapse of corn, wheat, cotton and soybean prices in America. A year later, the great nine-year drought, called the Dust Bowl, started and completed the destruction of the American farmer.
Rarely does a painting that typifies a particular era: historically, artistically, and stylistically; and also represent the artist's best work, best period, and principal subject matter. Simply put, this is a museum-quality painting, and can be counted as one of Merritt Mauzey's greatest works. It must also be counted among the great Dust Bowl paintings produced in America. Texas had many wonderful regionalist artists, but few could match the sincerity and direct knowledge Merritt Mauzey had of the cotton industry and the poor sharecropping farmer.
This is a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to purchase a major regionalist painting of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36343
MERRITT MAUZEY, Early Texas Art, oil, 1930s
Start Price: 48,750.00High Bid: 60,000.00Estimate: 50,000.00 - 100,000.00
MERRITT MAUZEY (1897-1973)
Uncle Fud and Aunt Boo, 1930s
Oil on masonite
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Grandpa Snazzy, Uncle Fud, and Aunt Boo were well-known comedic radio characters created in the early 1930s by radio personality Bob Burns. They were happy-go-lucky, barefoot, tobacco chewing, dirt-poor sharecroppers. Merritt Mauzey places these normally happy and carefree characters in the firm and horrible grip of the Dust Bowl. Instead of the light-hearted comic characters Americans were used to, Mauzey presents them toiling against the awful forces of the drought.
In this harvest-time painting, Uncle Fud has passed out from exhaustion against a tree stump. His wife, Aunt Boo, is picking what is left of the meager cotton crop. The few cotton plants that have survived are wilted with the cotton bolls hanging down instead of up. As in the previous painting, the sky is no longer blue, but gray, brown, and orange with blowing topsoil. Mauzey replaces the romantic images of Thomas Hart Benton's regionalism with his own regionalism of stark truth, and the plight of the sharecropping farmer.
Merritt Mauzey's, Uncle Fud and Aunt Boo like Grandpa Snazzy, is one of the artist's greatest paintings and an iconic Dust Bowl image. It is an accurate, however dispiriting and bleak, assessment of the farmer's plight. Mauzey kept both Grandpa Snazzy and Uncle Fred and Aunt Boo in his personal collection until his very last days, always declining to sell them. He finally sold both to pay for medical care. He sold his prized paintings to the present owner, a long-time cotton broker, knowing at that point in time (mid-1970s when Regionalist paintings were out of favor in the art world) only someone in the cotton industry would appreciate them.
Uncle Fud and Aunt Boo and Grandpa Snazzy were Mauzey's prize possessions until very near his death. This is a unique opportunity to purchase not one, but two paintings the artist himself valued above all others.
Dust Bowl Chronology:
1930 - Bumper crops, the deepening depression, and a trade war cause a collapse in agricultural prices.
1931 - Severe drought strikes the Midwest and South. The first dust storms from over-plowed and over-grazed land start.
1932 - More severe drought - fourteen major dust storms this year; next year will be thirty-eight.
1933 - Drought continues and the banks fail. President Roosevelt declares four-day bank holiday. Many farms are foreclosed upon and many sharecroppers were forced off their land.
1934 - Drought and economic calamity continues. Great dust storms spread. The drought covers 75% of the country and severely affects twenty-seven states.
1935 - Black Sunday. The worst "black blizzard" of the Dust Bowl occurs. It is estimated that 135-million acres of land have lost all or most of the topsoil; 125-million acres of land rapidly losing topsoil.
1936 - Drought and dust storms continue. Record temperatures baked the land.
1937 - Roosevelt addresses the nation stating, "I see one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."
1938 - Extensive work in re-plowing the land into furrows, planting trees in the shelterbelts, and other conservation measures have reduced the amount of soil blowing by 65%, but the drought continues.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36344
MERRITT MAUZEY, Early Texas Art, oil, 1930s
Start Price: 9,750.00High Bid: 9,500.00Estimate: 15,000.00 - 25,000.00
MERRITT MAUZEY (1897-1973)
Loading Cotton, 1930s
Oil on linen
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Merritt Mauzey is one of the great chroniclers of the American agrarian life and rural society. He experienced life as a sharecropper first hand, rather than as an observer. This gave him a unique perspective beyond all other artists. The result is historically important, stylistically dead-on for that era of regionalism, and in execution, inspired. It is why Mauzey was the first Texan to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. and why the Smithsonian has seventy-five of his prints.
Loading Cotton is another painting in the series of oils Merritt Mauzey created documenting the cotton industry. It is based on Mauzey's experience working for a cotton exporter. Mauzey knew, and had worked in, every aspect of the cotton business from his early days as a sharecropper, to his days working as a clerk at a cotton gin, to his days working for a cotton-exporting firm.
Mauzey was acutely aware that the U.S. cotton market was dependent on exports. American cotton farmers produced much more cotton than the country used domestically. In this painting, what appear to be Chinese Coolies, are loading the cotton onto a ship. From start to finish, the cotton industry was dependent on lots of backbreaking manual labor.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36345
MERRITT MAUZEY, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 300.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
MERRITT MAUZEY (1897-1973)
Uncle Fred and Aunt Boo
Lithograph on paper
12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
This lithograph was taken from the painting and is a classic image of Dust Bowl troubles.
Collections:
Collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
Merritt Mauzey Papers, University of Southern MississippiCondition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36346
MERRITT MAUZEY, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 375.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
MERRITT MAUZEY (1897-1973)
Cotton Gin
Lithograph on paper
12-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches (31.1 x 28.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
Another in Mauzey's series documenting the cotton industry. In this lithograph the final stage of the ginning process is shown. This is number three of a very small edition of ten.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36347
MERRITT MAUZEY, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 150.00High Bid: 160.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
MERRITT MAUZEY (1897-1973)
Grove Meeting - Men
Lithograph on paper
12-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches (31.1 x 26.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This lithograph has publisher notes and references to page numbers in Texas Ranch Boy, by Merritt Mauzey, and was likely used as the original artwork in the publication of the book.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36348
MERRITT MAUZEY, Early Texas Art, litho
Start Price: 250.00High Bid: 800.00Estimate: 300.00 - 600.00
MERRITT MAUZEY (1897-1973)
Texas Highway
Lithograph on paper
10 x 14 inches (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
This lithograph has publisher notes and references to page numbers in Texas Ranch Boy, by Merritt Mauzey, and was likely used as the original artwork in publication of the book.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Matted/unframed.
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36349
JOHN BIGGERS, Early Texas Art, graphite/paper
Start Price: 6,750.00High Bid: 6,500.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
JOHN BIGGERS (1924-2001)
Untitled
Graphite on paper
22-1/2 x 18 inches (57.2 x 45.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Among the first generation of university-trained African American artists, John Biggers is internationally known for his murals, oils, graphic works, and prints. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, and studied at the Hampton Institute in Virginia. In 1943, while at Hampton, Biggers' mural, Negro Soldier, was included at the seminal exhibition, Young Negro Art, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1949, he moved to Houston where he founded the art department at Texas Southern University. Up until this time it was almost impossible for young Negro artists to obtain formal training in fine arts. In 1950, Biggers won first prize at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for his painting, The Cradle. In 1957, he traveled to Africa to explore his African heritage. He published a book based on his travels in Ghana, Nigeria, and other African countries.
Biggers was searching for an understanding of his African heritage. The deeply felt words and pictures in his book, Ananse Web of Life, record his discoveries.
In the following, Biggers provides an intimate view of "the web of life" in West Africa.
My intention was to discover and to portray what was intrinsically African. I was not interested in showing the degree to which Africans measured up to American or European standards in materialistic acquisitions; I was solely interested in capturing something universal in the many ... washerwomen, farming women, fishermen, lumber workers, market women, mothers, fathers, and children.
I envisioned three general geographical areas that offered contrasts: life near the sea, life in the forest region, and life on the open plains. Yet I wanted to show in these contrasting areas a thread of homogeneity that held the people together, that linked them in their struggle, in their destiny. The eighty-nine drawings in this book represent my effort.
Since the publication of the book coincided with the advent of the civil rights movement, Ananse became a means by which African Americans learned about, and took pride in, their heritage and armed themselves for cultural battle.....Arriving like a magnificent and unexpected gift, [it] helped elevate the collective black consciousness to a new and higher level of self-awareness.
(Alvia J. Wardlaw, in The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room)
In 1995, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in conjunction with Hampton University, organized a retrospective of his work to great acclaim.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36350
EDMUND KINZINGER, oil/linen, 1941
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,600.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 8,000.00
EDMUND KINZINGER (1888-1963)
Colored Girl, 1941
Oil on linen
36 x 27 inches (91.4 x 68.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
This painting was Edmund Kinzinger's entry into the Fifth Texas General Exhibition. For a white artist like Kinzinger, it surely caused an uproar and controversy in a very conservative and segregated Texas. The painting would have been widely seen by museum-going audiences, because the Texas General Exhibition was the most prestigious juried art competition in the state. As in this painting and the previous lot, Kinzinger is making a political statement that "black is beautiful," years before the phrase became popular. Even the color scheme of the background is meant to draw attention to the painting.
Exhibited:
Fifth Texas General Exhibition, 1945
Provenance:
Private collection, Atlanta, GeorgiaCondition Report: Excellent condition with minor scattered inpainting. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36351
EDMUND KINZINGER, Early Texas Art, o/ab, 1938
Start Price: 1,700.00High Bid: 1,700.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
EDMUND KINZINGER (1888-1963)
Young Girl, 1938
Oil on artistboard
23 x 17 inches (58.4 x 43.2 cm)
Signed and dated upper left
Edmund Kinzinger was a successful and notable modernist artist in Europe. He was director of the Hans Hoffman Schule fur Buildende Kunst in Munich, and the Hans Hofmann Self-Study Course in California. Labeled as a "degenerate" artist in his own country by the Nazis, Kinzinger fled to the United States, eventually accepting a job as Chairman of the Art Department at Baylor University. During summers Kinzinger maintained a studio in Taxco, Mexico. He had a fascination for the native peoples of Mexico. From 1939 to 1942, Kinzinger attended summer sessions at the University of Iowa and his dissertation, based on a series of paintings on a Mexican theme, awarded him the first doctorate in fine arts conferred by the University of Iowa.
Kinzinger also painted a significant number of paintings with Negro subjects. He was a social liberal and his choice of Mexican peasant and American Negro subjects was his strong social statement that these people mattered. To an all white audience in the segregated South of the 1930s, painting's like this, from the chairman of Baylor's fine art department, would have been shocking and socially unacceptable. Portraits were supposed to be painted of the rich, the clergy, politicians, and otherwise "important" people. The painting of this young black girl was an antithesis to society's norms at the time, but Kinzinger had similarly been a victim of discrimination by the Nazis in Germany and his sympathy is clear.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36352
FLORENCE MCCLUNG, Early Texas Art o/c, 1930's
Start Price: 4,000.00High Bid: 4,000.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 8,000.00
FLORENCE MCCLUNG (1894-1992)
Untitled Bluebonnet Landscape, 1930s to 1940s
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Florence McClung alters the typical bluebonnet "formula" in this regionalist treatment of the genre. The forms of the dominant tree line become monumental, obscuring the sky horizon and fluffy clouds so favored by the impressionist "bluebonnet painters." Also missing are the solitary live oak, prickly pear cactus, and often-included farm house. McClung was certainly aware of the typical compositional devices used by painters like Julian Onderdonk, Jose Arpa, Robert Wood, and Porfirio Salinas, but true to herself, she provides her own fresh interpretation of the subject.Condition Report: Excellent condition; original unlined canvas on new stretcher. Very minor inpainting is evident under blacklight. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36353
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, gouache, 1941
Start Price: 3,200.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 8,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Graveyard, 1941
Gouache on paper
16 x 21 inches (40.6 x 53.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
A rare opportunity to own a prize-winning painting by Kelly Fearing. This gouache was exhibited in the Southern States Art League and won a prize. It then joined the Southern States Circuit Exhibition and toured museums in New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta, Georgia; Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; and Birmingham, Alabama.
Exhibited:
Southern States Art League Circuit
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36354
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1939
Start Price: 1,550.00High Bid: 1,600.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Circus Tent with a Row of Hopeful Outsiders, 1939
Watercolor on paper
16-1/2 x 20-1/2 inches (41.9 x 52.1 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
The date was 1939. The place was Ruston, Louisiana. The circus had come to tour, however, segregation was in effect. Separate but not equal.
Kelly Fearing catches a poignant moment. Several of the town's black inhabitants are outside looking in. It is only from the outside, through an opening in the side of the tent, that they are allowed to view the wonders within.
Provenance:
Kelly Fearing
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36355
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1939
Start Price: 1,150.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Sideshow, 1939
Watercolor on paper
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Titled lower center
Kelly Fearing does an excellent job of portraying the campiness of a circus side show.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36356
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1941
Start Price: 1,550.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Evening Stroller, 1941
Watercolor on paper
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
According to the artist, this watercolor takes its influence from Charles Burchfield with its moody atmosphere.
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36357
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, gouache, '41
Start Price: 1,150.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Brazilian Market, 1942
Gouache on paper
13 x 19 inches (33.0 x 48.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36358
PERRY NICHOLS, Early Texas Art, oil, 1988
Start Price: 3,375.00High Bid: 3,250.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
PERRY NICHOLS (1911-1992)
Sand Dunes - Morroco (sic), 1988
Oil on canvas
24 x 48 inches (61.0 x 121.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Signed and titled verso
Photo-realism, also known as super-realism, emerged as a style in the 1970s in the United States. Many of Perry Nichols' later paintings use this style, or use it in concert with surrealism.
Provenance:
Estate of Perry Nichols
Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36359
PERRY NICHOLS, Early Texas triptych, w/c
Start Price: 1,000.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
PERRY NICHOLS (1911-1992)
Three Seasons Triptych
Gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper
14-1/2 x 11 inches (36.8 x 27.9 cm)
Signed lower right (on each)
Three watercolors depicting different seasons: winter, spring, and summer. The watercolors have a Japanese influence and calligraphic line.
Provenance:
Estate of Perry NicholsCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in good condition.
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36360
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS, Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS (b. 1981)
Night Pegasus, 2007
Oil on linen
50-3/4 x 49-1/2 inches (128.9 x 125.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Perry Brooks Nichols is a graduate of Southern Methodist University Fine Arts Program, and the grandson of Perry Nichols and Mary Nell Brooks. He represents the fifth generation in a family of Dallas artists. Perry's work is represented by the Dahlia Woods Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
In this painting, Perry continues to explore the environs of downtown Dallas and the near downtown Dallas area.
Provenance:
Perry Brooks Nichols
Dahlia Woods Gallery
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36361
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS, Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 390.00High Bid: 375.00Estimate: 600.00 - 900.00
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS (b. 1981)
Zaza Chase View, 2007
Oil on linen
16 x 12 inches (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Perry Brooks Nichols has embarked on a series of paintings documenting the major buildings and landscape of downtown and near downtown Dallas. The view of Hotel Zaza and the Chase Bank Tower can be seen near the artist's studio on Fairmont and McKinney.
Perry's work is represented by the Dahlia Woods Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Provenance:
Perry Brooks Nichols
Dahlia Woods Gallery
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Integrated frame.
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36362
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS, Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 475.00Estimate: 750.00 - 1,000.00
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS (b. 1981)
Still Life - Homage to Delacroix, 2007
Oil on linen
18 x 19 inches (45.7 x 48.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Delacroix is known for his use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color. His emphasis was on color and movement, rather than clarity of outline and carefully modeled form, as was the dominant style in the early 1800s.
Perry Brooks Nichols' work is represented by the Dahlia Woods Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Provenance:
Perry Brooks Nichols
Dahlia Woods Gallery
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Integrated frame.
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36363
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS, Texas Art, pen & ink
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 180.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
PERRY BROOKS NICHOLS (b. 1981)
Hobgoblin Tower, 2007
Pen and ink on heavy paper
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
This drawing, Hobgoblin Tower, continues Perry's exploration of still life. Nichols' paintings are an externalized form of self-portraiture. In this painting, the empty beer bottles, which are arranged in a shrine of sorts, symbolize the state of drunkenness.
Perry's work is represented by the Dahlia Woods Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Provenance:
Perry Brooks Nichols
Dahlia Woods Gallery
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed
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36364
FRIEDRICH WENTZEL, Longhorn Chair, before 1900
Start Price: 5,750.00High Bid: 5,500.00Estimate: 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
FRIEDRICH WENZEL (1827-1902)
Longhorn Chair, before 1900
38 x 32 x 26 inches (96.5 x 81.3 x 66.0 cm)
Unsigned
Friedrich Wenzel, horn furniture maker, was born in Bohemia. In 1853, he immigrated to Indianola, Texas, and settled in San Antonio. He soon established a cabinet making business. In 1880, Wenzel expanded his business to include the manufacture of horn furniture. In the next ten years he crafted some of the most innovative horned furniture ever made. His works received awards of merit at the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of 1883, the New Orleans Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884-1885, and the Southern Exposition of Louisville, Kentucky in 1886. Between 1880 and 1890, his furniture was sold throughout the United States and Europe. His patrons included Queen Victoria, Otto Von Bismark, and Kaiser Wilhelm I. Wenzel died in 1902, around the time the supply of horns, due to declining Longhorn herds, were disappearing. His furniture is displayed in museums across the United States.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36365
Longhorn Mirror, early 1900s
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,000.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Longhorn Mirror, early 1900s
34 x 25 x 8 inches (86.4 x 63.5 x 20.3 cm)
Unsigned
This horned mirror and hat rack is very decorative with yoke-shaped body, mirror, and red velvet.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36366
Longhorn Mirror, early 1900s
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Longhorn Mirror, early 1900s
40 x 21 x 5-1/2 inches (101.6 x 53.3 x 14.0 cm)
Unsigned
Yoke-shaped mirror with original mercury glass, horns, and applied horn, heart, leaf, and star motifs.Condition Report: Excellent condition with small loss from lower right hand star.
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36367
Longhorn Club Chair, early 1900s
Start Price: 4,875.00High Bid: 4,750.00Estimate: 5,000.00 - 7,000.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Longhorn Club Chair, early 1900s
42-1/2 x 35 x 29 inches (108.0 x 88.9 x 73.7 cm)
Unsigned
Fantastic Longhorn club chair with original leather. The feet on this chair are cowhooves and have hidden original rollers. Sweeping horns create the arm rest.Condition Report: Excellent original condition.
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36368
Longhorn Wall Hanging, early 1900s
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 4,000.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Longhorn Wall Hanging, early 1900s
52 x 43 x 12 inches (132.1 x 109.2 x 30.5 cm)
Unsigned
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Repair to right horn.
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36369
Longhorn Chair, early 1900s
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,500.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Longhorn Chair, early 1900s
42 x 24-1/4 x 18-1/2 inches (106.7 x 61.6 x 47.0 cm)
Unsigned
Condition Report: Replaced uphostery with faux leopard pattern fabric. Chair and horns are loose and need tightening.
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36370
Child's Longhorn Chair, early 1900s
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 1,000.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Child's Longhorn Chair, early 1900s
31 x 16-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches (78.7 x 41.9 x 31.8 cm)
Unsigned
Condition Report: Good original condition.
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36371
Longhorn Hat Rack, early 1900s
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,500.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Longhorn Hat Rack, early 1900s
28 x 38 x 5-1/2 inches (71.1 x 96.5 x 14.0 cm)
Unsigned
A horn hat rack with painted ladies.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36372
Longhorns, early 1900s
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 300.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
UNKNOWN MAKER
Longhorns, early 1900s
13 x 46 inches (33.0 x 116.8 cm)
Unsigned
Fantastic pair of display Longhorns.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36373
CARLOS CORTES, Longhorns, early 1900s
Start Price: 290.00High Bid: 325.00Estimate: 300.00 - 500.00
CARLOS CORTES
Longhorns, early 1900s
10 x 19-1/2 inches (25.4 x 49.5 cm)
Unsigned
Carlos Cortes is a third generation "faux bois" concrete artisan carrying on a family tradition that has its roots in San Antonio circa 1924. Carlos' great uncle, Dionisio Rodriguez, brought this form of European sculpting to the U.S. from Mexico City and taught it to Carlos' father. Carlos designs and builds "faux bois" sculptures that fit from small garden settings to large public installations.Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36374
UNKNOWN, Horn Carving of Bird
Start Price: 220.00High Bid: 300.00Estimate: 200.00 - 400.00
ARTIST UNKNOWN
Horn Carving of Bird
7 x 2 x 3 inches (17.8 x 5.1 x 7.6 cm)
Unsigned
Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36375
LOREN MOZLEY, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 23,000.00High Bid: 22,000.00Estimate: 30,000.00 - 40,000.00
LOREN MOZLEY (1905-1989)
Autumn, Pedernales
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Signed lower left
Titled verso
Loren Mozley started his art career in New Mexico. He graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1926, and as Mabel Dodge Luhan's secretary, he was thrust into the middle of the Taos art scene. This association afforded Mozley many contacts and opportunities, which would forever influence the direction of his life and art.
Through Luhan, Mozley became friends with Ward Lockwood, Andrew Dasburg, and John Marin (the latter two having participated in the celebrated Armory Show of 1913, and counted among America's most important modernist painters). From these associations, as well as his own artistic preferences, Mozley began a life long fascination with Paul Cezanne's techniques, which are characterized by creating volume and space by means of planes of color. This guiding principal forever influenced Mozley's art.
The four friends regularly painted together (Marin visiting Taos during the summers before 1930). As was their habit, they would load up their easels, paints, fishing equipment, rifles, camping gear, and food in Dasburg's car, and sojourn for sometimes weeks at a time in the mountains, arroyo's, and canyons of New Mexico. The artists quickly found the fractured rock forms of the New Mexico landscape were uniquely suited for the Cezannesque treatment they favored.
In 1938, Ward Lockwood accepted a position as the head of the new art department at the University of Texas in Austin. Lockwood was charged with organizing the new department, and his first hire that same year was Loren Mozley. Thus, the roots of the University of Texas Art Department started with these two important New Mexico Modernist painters.
Mozley soon found that the fractured rock forms of the landscape around central Texas also lent themselves to the Cezannesque treatment that Mozley favored. This superb fall scene of the Pedernales River south of Austin is an excellent example of Mozley's deconstruction of the Texas landscape into fractured, overlapping planes of color.
The provenance is directly from the artist to one of the first students of the U. T. Art Program. Mozley and the current owner remained close friends until his death in 1989.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36376
LOREN MOZLEY, Early Texas Art, w/c
Start Price: 6,250.00High Bid: 6,500.00Estimate: 8,000.00 - 12,000.00
LOREN MOZLEY (1905-1989)
Broken Cypress
Watercolor on paper
30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
A full-sheet watercolor of an ancient cypress tree. These trees fill the banks of many Texas Hill Country rivers and streams.
This watercolor was purchased from the artist by one of his first students in the U. T. Art Department. They remained friends until his death in 1989.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36377
EVERETT SPRUCE, Texas Art, acrylic/canvas
Start Price: 19,500.00High Bid: 19,000.00Estimate: 20,000.00 - 30,000.00
EVERETT SPRUCE (1908-2002)
Giant Yucca Near Hot Springs, 1987-1988
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 40 inches (91.4 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Everett Spruce loved to paint the Big Bend area of Texas. Very much an expressionist painter his entire career, Spruce's late paintings continue to break new ground. The complexity of these late works is stunning. Each time you look at this painting you will discover new things, shapes, objects, forms, and suggestions that continue to engage and challenge the viewer to interpret the artist's intent.
The large central form of the yucca becomes monumental in the composition. To the upper left is a hill. To the upper right in the sky, as is typical with Spruce, something magical is going on. The characteristic leaves of century plants are apparent, scattered around the composition. Anymore than this, you, the viewer, must begin your dialog with the painting.
Technically, the painting is very complex. Layers and layers of paint are built up. In places, the underpainting is allowed to show through. Spruce applies glazes to certain areas. Strong horizontal and vertical elements are woven throughout the composition.
This major late Spruce was exhibited at the University of Texas in 1988.
Exhibited:
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1988
Provenance:
Everett Spruce
Wunderlich Gallery
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36378
EVERETT SPRUCE, Early Texas Art, oil/canvas
Start Price: 5,000.00High Bid: 5,000.00Estimate: 6,000.00 - 8,000.00
EVERETT SPRUCE (1908-2002)
Prairie Night Distant Storm
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed and titled verso
This painting is from a series Everett Spruce did called, Prairie Night. All have a strong horizon line, and flat, but very abstracted, terrain.
This painting was acquired by Everett Spruce's next door neighbor in Austin, Texas, who also happened to be a fine arts graduate at the University of Texas.
Provenance:
Everett Spruce
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36379
JAMES SURLS - Wood sculpture, 1970s
Start Price: 19,500.00High Bid: 19,000.00Estimate: 25,000.00 - 35,000.00
JAMES SURLS (b. 1943)
Untitled, 1970s
Wood sculpture
33 x 50 x 34 inches (83.8 x 127 x 86.4 cm)
Unsigned
James Surls is one of the most important artists the state of Texas has produced in the last fifty years. His highly expressionistic sculpture has a basis in both modern and folk art. Wood is his primary medium, and his highly individualistic forms have expanded the boundaries of modern sculpture.
Surls was born in East Texas and received his Masters of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy. In 1969, he returned to teach sculpture at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In 1976, he joined the University of Houston and became an important part of the Houston art community. His studio and home in Splendora, Texas, became an artist colony with Surls making numerous "breakthroughs" in his own art and idiom.
In 1991, Surls was named Texas Artist of the Year by the Art League of Houston. In 1993, he received the Living Legend Award by the Dallas Visual Art Center. He now resides in Snowmass, Colorado.
This signature James Surls sculpture is from his seminal period in the 1970s. It was purchased from the Delahunty Gallery, his primary dealer for many years.
Provenance:
Delahunty Gallery
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition.
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36380
DEFORREST JUDD, Early Texas Art, o/m, 1954
Start Price: 7,250.00High Bid: 7,000.00Estimate: 7,500.00 - 10,000.00
DEFORREST JUDD (1916-1992)
Ghost Town, 1954
Oil on masonite
24 x 36 inches (61.0 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed and titled verso
This museum exhibited painting is a fine example of Deforrest Judd's finest work. A successful synthesis of regionalism and modernism, the theme of old derelict buildings is decidedly regionalist. The handling of forms are modernist with broad flattened planes of color and flattened perspective.
Exhibited:
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; 1955 Art Rental Collection
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36381
BROR UTTER, Early Texas Art, oil/linen, 1966
Start Price: 1,500.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
BROR UTTER (1913-1993)
Untitled Cityscape, 1966
Oil on linen
19 x 22 inches (48.3 x 55.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Bror Utter had a fascination for architecture. In many of his paintings he used architectural elements, such as columns and arches, as integrating elements in his abstractions. In this painting, he chooses an architectural subject and then abstracts upon that theme.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36382
BROR UTTER, Early Texas Art, oil/linen, 1957
Start Price: 2,900.00High Bid: 3,000.00Estimate: 4,000.00 - 6,000.00
BROR UTTER (1913-1993)
Untitled Ruins with Arches, 1957
Oil on linen
28 x 36 inches (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
This painting is an excellent example of Bror Utter's fascination with arches and architectural elements. He uses this motif to base further abstraction and development of the resulting theme.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36383
BROR UTTER, Early Texas Art, w/c & ink
Start Price: 2,700.00High Bid: 2,600.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
BROR UTTER (1913-1993)
Untitled Apothecary Jars
Watercolor and ink on paper
22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Signed lower right
This full-sheet watercolor by Bror Utter has one of his favorite themes: apothecary jars in niches. The forms are outlined in ink, and watercolor washes are applied in blacks, yellows, and grays. Architectural elements, such as columns, pediments, and arches, are integrated into the composition.Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36384
BROR UTTER, Early Texas Art, oil/linen, 1966
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
BROR UTTER (1913-1993)
Untitled Niches and Apothecary Jars, 1966
Oil on linen
30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower left
Bror Utter was fond of this theme of niches, apothecary jars, and cup-shaped objects. This motif becomes his laboratory for experiments in color geometry and design. Explore the interrelationships between the objects, their color, the space that contains them, their interrelationships to each other, and their interrelationships to the whole.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36385
BROR UTTER, Early Texas Art, gouache
Start Price: 1,150.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
BROR UTTER (1913-1993)
Untitled Circus Clowns and Jugglers, 1986
Gouache and ink on paper
11 x 8 inches (27.9 x 20.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
In this lively gouache, Bror Utter plays a fanciful game with positive and negative space.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36386
BROR UTTER, Early Texas Art, oil, 1952
Start Price: 900.00High Bid: 1,600.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
BROR UTTER (1913-1993)
Seven Fish, 1958
Oil on linen
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
From an unidentified newspaper clipping in the Fort Worth Public Library Archive: Two things chiefly distinguish Utter's work. One is his sophisticated way with color and texture. The other is his ability to discover extraordinary things in ordinary forms, and express his discoveries with grace and wit...Utter likely will prove to be the most important Texas artist of his generation.
Provenance:
Fifth Avenue Gallery, Fort Worth, TexasCondition Report: Water damage and small resulting loss to central fish. The loss is approximately the size of a dime. Period frame in good condition.
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36387
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, oil, 1946
Start Price: 9,750.00High Bid: 9,500.00Estimate: 12,000.00 - 16,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
A Study in Reversed Perspective Using Table and Aquarium, 1946
Oil on canvasboard with collage elements
24 x 20 inches (61.0 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
This painting was an experimental work done while Kelly Fearing was in Fort Worth. Two collage elements are used in the composition. The woman holding the fish tank is made of crumpled Kraft paper, oil paint, and ink. The table top is a piece of applied striped fabric.
This painting is a prime example of Fort Worth School painting.
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36388
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1972
Start Price: 11,500.00High Bid: 11,000.00Estimate: 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Green Landscape with Day Moon Centered, 1971
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Kelly Fearing's rocks are a personal signature. Partly taken from the porous honeycombed limestone found around Austin, and partly from his imagination, the surreal rock forms in this painting take on their own life.
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36389
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, o/c
Start Price: 12,500.00High Bid: 12,000.00Estimate: 15,000.00 - 20,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Spirit Deer at a Yellow Edge, 1970
Oil on linen with silverleaf highlights
22 x 28 inches (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Signed lower right
Kelly Fearing's paintings have contained an element of surrealism going back to his late regionalist phase around 1940. Since that time his landscapes have a fantastic dreamlike quality. They are often populated by strange and fanciful creatures. His canvas surfaces are impeccable, highly finished, and complex.
In the 1990s, Kelly Fearing released a print, In Passage at the Edge, based on this painting. In 1996, Dr. Amy Freeman Lee, also an important Texas artist and National Trustee of the Humane Society of the United States, wrote Kelly Fearing in his set of elegant and poignant prints provides a chance for us to review the innate beauty of his subjects "in passage" and, in so doing, reminds us of the responsibility to share the planet Earth with them. The implication is clear that we must do this to escape the final form of being "passage" ourselves if we hope to survive.
Professor Emeritus, Kelly Fearing was recently honored by receiving the University of Texas College of Art's highest honor, the Doty Award. Past recipients include James A. Michener, Jack Blanton, and Bryce Jordan.
Exhibited:
University of Texas Faculty Show, Austin, Texas
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36390
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, 1947
Start Price: 2,300.00High Bid: 2,300.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 5,000.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Growth Below, 1947
Casein, powdered silver, watercolor, and ink on paper
12 x 13-1/2 inches (30.5 x 34.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
This painting by Kelly Fearing was painted in Bill Bomar's apartment while he was attending summer classes at Columbia University in New York. It is a fine example of work from the Fort Worth School period. Kelly also produced an etching based on this work.
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36391
KELLY FEARING, Early Texas Art, w/c, 1945
Start Price: 1,150.00High Bid: 1,100.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
KELLY FEARING (b. 1918)
Fireworks, 1945
Watercolor and graphite on paper
16 x 9-1/4 inches (40.6 x 23.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled lower left
Influenced by Henry Moore, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, and other European Modernists, Kelly Fearing and other Forth Worth School artists were the first group in Texas to explore the modernist idiom.
Provenance:
Kelly FearingCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36392
WILLIAM LESTER, Early Texas oil/linen, 1957
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 3,750.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
WILLIAM LESTER (1910-1991)
Fire Escape, 1957
Oil on canvas
44 x 34 inches (111.8 x 86.4 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
The interplay of geometric shapes and color provides the compositional device William Lester uses in this painting. Without the figure of the woman, this painting would pass as a non-representational geometric abstraction.
The Panhandle Plains Historical Museum currently has an exhibition called Urban Texas: Images of an Evolving State. This painting by William Lester is an excellent example of one of Texas' most important artists moving from the rural subject matter of the Texas Regionalists to urban themes and modernism.
Provenance:
Estate of William Lester
Valley House Gallery
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition, original canvas, very minor inpainting. Original artist-designed period frame in excellent condition.
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36393
WILLIAM LESTER, Early Texas Art, oil/linen
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,200.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
WILLIAM LESTER (1910-1991)
Evening, 1957-1959
Oil on linen
44 x 34 inches (111.8 x 86.4 cm)
Signed upper left
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Strong linear elements provide the basis for this abstract composition of high-rise buildings in the 1950s. As commented in the prior painting, this is an excellent example of William Lester's evolution from the rural subject matter or the Texas Regionalists to urban themes and modernism.
Provenance:
Estate of William Lester
Valley House Gallery
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition with minor inpainting in sky. Original artist-designed period frame in excellent condition.
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36394
WILLIAM LESTER, Early Texas oil/linen, 1959
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
WILLIAM LESTER (1910-1991)
Musicians, 1959
Oil on linen
30 x 44 inches (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Signed and titled verso
A modernist depiction of a jazz quintet including guitar, percussion, banjo, bass, and trumpet. From its very earliest days, jazz (because of its free-form musical style) has been associated with modernist and abstract painting.
Provenance:
Estate of William Lester
Valley House Gallery
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Condition Report: Excellent condition; original canvas. Original artist-designed period frame in excellent condition.
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36395
XAVIER GONZALEZ, Early Texas o/c, 1940's
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
XAVIER GONZALEZ (1898-1993)
Ice House, early 1940s
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
Xavier Gonzalez' work evolved and changed with the times. In the 1920s, he was painting in the impressionist tradition. With the 1930s, Gonzalez became one of Texas' most accomplished regionalist painters and muralists completing four WPA post office murals and winning the international competition for the mural at the Los Angeles Museum of Art. In the 1940s, Gonzalez' mural at the Los Angeles Museum of Art became identified with the American Modernist Movement.
This painting retains depression-era regionalist subject matter, an El Paso ice house. As in many depression-era Texas Regionalist paintings, there is the skeleton of a dead cow, the landscape is barren, and any buildings are derelict, however the style is decidedly modernist. The perspective is flattened, forms are abstracted, and are broken down to broad planes of color.
This widely exhibited painting is an excellent example of mid-1940s Texas Modernism.
Provenance:
Estate of Xavier Gonzalez
Exhibited:
Butler Institute
El Paso Museum of Art
The Milch GalleriesCondition Report: Excellent unlined condition. Would benefit from a light cleaning. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36396
XAVIER GONZALEZ , Early Texas Art
Start Price: 260.00High Bid: 350.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
XAVIER GONZALEZ (1898-1993)
Untitled Abstract Sailboats
Oil, gouache, and tempera on paper
11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed lower left
Signed verso
After World War II, Xavier Gonzalez had a second home in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. During summers he held an art school in Wellfleet. Gonzalez was also fond of sailing and many of his Wellfleet paintings are marines with sailboats.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36397
J. J. MCVICKER, Early Texas Art, 1948
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
J. J. MCVICKER (1911-2004)
Embryonic Forms, 1948
Casein on paper
23 x 15-1/2 inches (58.4 x 39.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Dated and titled verso
This painting by J. J. McVicker is done in casein, a popular water soluble media used widely in the 1940s. It is a vibrant bimorphic abstraction of three figures: man (right), woman( left), and child (middle). The female form to the left contains an unborn "embryo."
This painting is an excellent example of the transitional period in McVicker's career, where he had moved on from a regionalist style, but was yet to yield to total abstraction.
Provenance:
Estate of J. J. McVicker
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36398
J. J. MCVICKER, Early Texas Art, acrylic
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
J. J. MCVICKER (1911-2004)
Stiletto, 1990
Acrylic on paper
20 x 30 inches (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
A fabulous geometric abstraction by J. J. McVicker. The green background contains frottage textures of chicken wire and wire screen. The geometric elements seem to float on top of the greenish base.
Provenance:
Estate of J. J. McVicker
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36399
J. J. MCVICKER, Texas Art, acrylic
Start Price: 490.00High Bid: 490.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
J. J. MCVICKER (1911-2004)
Tangency Series II #2, 1990
Acrylic on paper
13-1/2 x 21-1/2 inches (34.3 x 54.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of J. J. McVicker
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36400
J. J. MCVICKER, Color aquatint, 1989
Start Price: 725.00High Bid: 725.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
J. J. MCVICKER (1911-2004)
Beijing Series #3, 1989
Color aquatint on paper
10 x 14-3/4 inches (25.4 x 37.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
This color aquatint uses frottage technique to transfer textures, such as burlap, wire screen, honeycomb, and crumpled paper to the copper plate. The artist has then placed colored paper behind cutouts to achieve the final effect. A lively and accomplished print.
Provenance:
Estate of J. J. McVicker
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36401
J. J. MCVICKER, Early Texas Art, acrylic collage
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 575.00Estimate: 1,200.00 - 2,400.00
J. J. MCVICKER (1911-2004)
Tapestry of Squares
Acrylic collage on canvas
24 x 24 inches (61.0 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed and titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of J. J. McVicker
Acquired from the above by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36402
ROBERT PREUSSER, Texas Art, 1985-1990
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,950.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Untitled, 1985-1990
Oil, plastic polymer, and glass beads on canvas
50 x 34 inches (127 x 86.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
At the heart of modernism is desire to experiment with form, as well as materials. Robert Preusser was a progressive in both areas. In fact, his experimental use of plastics and polymers led to exposure of toxic chemicals and fumes, which contributed to his death.
This painting uses oil paint, colored plastic polymer, and glass beads in its composition. The glass beads impart a shimmering quality to the surface. The silver plastic polymer has its own effect. Oil paint is applied over the plastic polymer to delineate areas of color.
Provenance:
Estate of Robert PreusserCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36403
ROBERT PREUSSER, Early Texas mixed media, 1977
Start Price: 2,300.00High Bid: 2,300.00Estimate: 3,000.00 - 4,000.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Polyurethane Relief #22
Polyurethane and mixed media on canvas
39-1/2 x 39-1/2 inches (100.3 x 100.3 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Experimentation in art was a lifelong pursuit of Robert Preusser. It comes as no surprise that experimentation with materials and media were part of that process. As new polymers and plastics were invented, Preusser embraced their use. This playful and vibrant work results from the use of a mixture of new and old materials.
Provenance:
Estate of Robert PreusserCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36404
ROBERT PREUSSER, Early Texas Art, oil/ early 30s
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Stranger (Self Portrait), early 1930s
Oil on unstretched canvas
13 x 9-1/2 inches (33.0 x 24.1 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled verso
This very early painting by Robert Preusser, which has until now remained in the family, has always been known as a self portrait of the artist. Its style indicates Preusser was greatly influenced by the German Expressionist painters.
Provenance:
Estate of Robert PreusserCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36405
ROBERT PREUSSER, Early Texas Art, 1957
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Asian Mist, 1957
Oil and mixed media on canvas
72 x 30 inches (182.9 x 76.2 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by a letter of authentication from the Estate of Robert Preusser
This abstract painting takes its inspiration from traditional Japanese watercolor and wood-block prints. At the same time, it stands alone as a finely tuned abstraction implemented in black, grey, and gold. Lines and shapes in the painting have a calligraphic quality and are implemented with highly impastoed paint mixed with grit. The large scale of the work gives it the physical presence of a Japanese screen.
Provenance:
Estate of Robert Preusser
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36406
ROBERT PREUSSER, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Luminous Energies
Oil and resin on linen
20 x 40 inches (50.8 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower right
Signed and titled verso
Small colored points of light radiate from a web on this highly-impastoed surface.
Exhibited:
Cambridge Art Association (label attached verso)
Provenance:
Estate of Robert PreusserCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36407
ROBERT PREUSSER, Early Texas Art, oil
Start Price: 2,000.00High Bid: 2,000.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Arctic Region, 1985-1990
Oil and sand on canvas
50 x 24 inches (127 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower center
Signed, dated, and titled verso
This abstract painting by Robert Preusser has lots of interesting texture and color in the composition. Colored outlines delineate between areas of tinted sand/grit. The resulting composition has lively visual movement as each of the areas play against each other.
Provenance:
Estate of Robert PreusserCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36408
ROBERT PREUSSER, Early Texas Art, 1968
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 4,000.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Polyurethane Relief #16 (carved), 1968
Polyurethane surfaced with glass beads
50 x 34 inches (127 x 86.4 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Exhibited:
Cambridge Art Association, 1969
Provenance:
Estate of Robert PreusserCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36409
ROBERT PREUSSER, Early Texas mixed media, 1968
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
ROBERT PREUSSER (1919-1992)
Polyurethane Relief #11, 1968
Polyurethane and mixed media on canvas
40 x 36 inches (101.6 x 91.4 cm)
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Experimenting with new media is a hallmark of modernism. Robert Preusser left his "recipe" for this painting on the stretcher and cardboard backing the painting:
VOLTA Foam 16-F-1910
Kyrlon Spray Flat White
New Temp Gesso
Background: 080 Beads in Elmers
Relief: 120 Beads in Tourain Egg Shell White
Mayers Varnish Overall
Provenance:
Estate of Robert PreusserCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36410
CECIL CASEBIER, Early Texas Art, oil, 1953
Start Price: 2,600.00High Bid: 4,500.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
CECIL CASEBIER (1922-1996)
Untitled Workman with Shovel, 1953
Oil on masonite
40 x 24 inches (101.6 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
In this semi-abstract composition, Cecil Casebier abstracts the image of a workman in boots with a shovel. To the left, a lantern glowing lights up the scene.Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36411
ERIC GIBBERT, Early Texas Art, o/m, 1967
Start Price: 2,400.00High Bid: 2,400.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 5,000.00
ERIC GIBBERD (1897-1972)
Big Horn Range
Oil on masonite
35-1/4 x 35-1/2 inches (89.5 x 90.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Painter, teacher, lecturer, Gibberd looked to Cezanne for his inspiration. Gibberd was one of the three founders of Gallery A on Kit Carson Road in Santa Fe.
Provenance:
Acquired from the artist by the present ownerCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36412
WILLIAM KOLLIKER (b. 1905) Mesquite Oil and
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,500.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
WILLIAM KOLLIKER (b. 1905)
Mesquite
Oil and acrylic on linen
32 x 45 inches (81.3 x 114.3 cm)
Signed lower right
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36413
CHESTER TONEY, Early Texas Art, oil/masonite
Start Price: 1,950.00High Bid: 1,900.00Estimate: 2,500.00 - 3,500.00
CHESTER TONEY (1935-1965)
Blue Tea Services, 1950
Oil on masonite
24 x 26 inches (61.0 x 66.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
An early and signature painting by Chester Toney with matching period frame.
Inscribed verso:
Collection of Artists Wife NFSCondition Report: Excellent condition with minor scratch to upper right edge. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36414
CHESTER TONEY, Early Texas Art, oil/linen, 1957
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,400.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
CHESTER TONEY (1935-1965)
Sea Wall, 1957
Oil on linen
26 x 34 inches (66.0 x 86.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Condition Report: Excellent original condition. Some cracking of thick paint layers.
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36415
CHESTER TONEY, Early Texas Art, o/c, 1958
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
CHESTER TONEY (1935-1965)
Teatro, 1958
Oil on canvas
16 x 24 inches (40.6 x 61.0 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Signed, dated, and titled verso
Condition Report: Excellent condition. Painting would benefit from a light surface cleaning. Unframed.
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36416
RUTH TEARS, Early Texas Art, oil/canvas, 1963
Start Price: 775.00High Bid: 750.00Estimate: 1,000.00 - 2,000.00
RUTH TEARS (1919-1971)
The Rift, 1963
Oil on canvas
32 x 30 inches (81.3 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
Titled verso
Ruth Tears was a painter and art teacher in Dallas. In this painting, she successfully uses color and composition to communicate her subject, "the rift."Condition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36417
HERI BERT BARTSCHT, Early Texas sculpture
Start Price: 975.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
HERI BERT BARTSCHT (1919-1996)
Departure, 1957
Terra cotta sculpture
19 x 13 x 9 inches (48.3 x 33.0 x 22.9 cm)
Signed and dated verso
Heri Bert Bartscht was a successful Dallas sculptor and professor at University of Dallas for almost thirty years. He moved to Dallas in 1953, and one year later won the top award at the Dallas Museum of Art's Annual Exhibition. He was a founder and director of the Dallas Society for Contemporary Arts, the forerunner organization of the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art.
Literature:
Heri Bert Bartscht, Twenty Years of My Sculpture, pictured p. 31Condition Report: Excellent condition.
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36418
FRANK JONES, Early Texas Art, graphite, 1960s
Start Price: 1,450.00High Bid: 1,700.00Estimate: 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
FRANK JONES (1900-1969)
Devil House, 1960s
Graphite and colored pencil on paper
12 x 18 inches (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left
Frank Jones was a black artist born around 1900. According to his mother, Frank was born with a veil over his left eye. According to widespread African American folk belief, people born with the "veil" or "caul" (part of the fetal membrane) over their eyes, have the power to see spirits and communicate with them. When Jones was about nine years old he began to see spirits, which he called "haints" or devils.
Jones spent twenty years of his life in Texas prisons beginning in 1941. He was released on parole after nine years, but he was arrested again and sent to prison for life. Sometime between 1960 and 1964, Jones began to draw pictures on salvaged paper of the "haints" he saw. He called these drawings "devil houses." Using stubs of colored pencils thrown away by inmate bookkeepers, he drew horizontal and vertical lines, forming architectural structures viewed in cross section. The houses were divided into cell-like rooms. The "haint" figures were confined and found protection in these rooms. Sometimes the grinning haints had wings or fire spewing out of their mouths.
Jones' art belongs to a category of outsider art called visionary art, which expresses visions only seen or dreamed by the artist. Jones' earliest drawings, as this one, are signed with his prison number because he did not know how to write his name.
Provenance:
Valley House Gallery (label attached verso)Condition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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36419
LLOYD GOFF, Early Texas Art w/c
Start Price: 195.00High Bid: 190.00Estimate: 400.00 - 800.00
LLOYD GOFF (1908-1982)
Abstraction #4
Watercolor on paper
6 x 8 inches (15.2 x 20.3 cm)
Unsigned, accompanied by certification by the executor of the Lloyd Goff Estate
Titled verso
While primarily known for realism, Lloyd Goff experimented with abstraction. This successful example uses rectangular and curvilinear elements, combined with shading, to give an illusion of volume and depth.
Provenance:
Estate of Lloyd GoffCondition Report: Excellent condition. Unframed.
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36420
DICKSON REEDER, Early Texas Art, gouache
Start Price: 575.00High Bid: 950.00Estimate: 600.00 - 1,200.00
DICKSON REEDER (1912-1970)
Untitled Keyhole
Gouache on paper
8 x 5-1/2 inches (20.3 x 14.0 cm)
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Estate of Flora Blanc Reeder
Dutch Phillips & CompanyCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36421
DEFORREST JUDD, Early Texas Art, o/cb
Start Price: 400.00High Bid: 400.00Estimate: 400.00 - 600.00
DEFORREST JUDD (1916-1992)
Untitled
Oil on canvasboard
13 x 9 inches (33.0 x 22.9 cm)
Signed lower right
Known for his modernist landscape paintings of Texas and the Southwest, Judd likely drew inspiration from nature for this abstract painting.
Provenance:
Collection of Nancy DozierCondition Report: Excellent condition. Period frame in excellent condition.
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36422
JOHN LADD, Texas, digitally manipulated photo
Start Price: 100.00High Bid: 100.00Estimate: 150.00 - 300.00
JOHN LADD (b. 1960)
Reclining Dude (Portrait of Stanley Marsh), 2006
Digitally manipulated color photograph
15-1/2 x 22-1/2 inches (39.4 x 57.2 cm)
Signed lower right
Titled lower left
John Ladd is a photographer, collector, and printmaker from the Texas Panhandle. His subject matter involves the characters and landscape that make up his everyday existence, as well abstracting from these images an early modernesque-style of art. His work is known for its humor, and edge and use of light. He studied with Earl Stroh in Taos, worked as an art professional, and has a deep connection to the environment, to early modernism, and to his subject matter.
Growing up in the Panhandle, John Ladd worked for Stanley Marsh at his estate, "Toad Hall," and being around Stanley influenced John's own particular form of whimsy. Marsh, a millionaire, artist, philanthropist, and prankster from Amarillo, is best known as the sponsor of the Cadillac Ranch, and his ongoing project of hundreds of mock traffic signs throughout Amarillo, such as "Lubbock is a Grease Spot," and "Road Does Not End."
This portrait was taken in Stanley Marsh's office in Amarillo, Texas.
Exhibited:
Amarillo Museum of Art, Making Panhandle Pictures, 9/2006-10/2006
Provenance:
John LaddCondition Report: Excellent condition. New frame in excellent condition.
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