At the Water's Edge           $ 4,400 SOLD

Tom Browning (b1949)

18x24  Oil

MIM 2021 #49 

#529506432X8NI130CDA

Born in Ontario, Oregon in 1949, Tom Browning has been painting professionally since 1972.  Starting out with wildlife as a choice of subject matter, Tom worked primarily in black and white using a medium known as scratchboard.   This gave his work an appearance of laborious detail, however, his technique permitted him to become quite prolific and at the same time learn the most important concept of values.  Learning to properly see values and creating such a convincing sense of light have been instrumental to Browning's success.
Working from a studio in a renovated warehouse outside Eugene, Oregon, Tom Browning has created numerous still life paintings, including figure and western genre works. 
He has written a book: "Timeless Techniques for Better Oil Painting", and founded a publishing company, noted for a line of cards of his illustrations called "Santa's Time Off."

The Sap Bucket                          $10,150

6216 BCROKC                  

Tom Browning (b. 1949)

29x35 Oil

#5185061015X10I18509

 

 

A Winter Trail                    $99,000 SOLD

Howard Terpning (b1927)

24x18 Oil

512506

Peaceful Day                           $26,000 SOLD AEC

Vladan Stiha (b. 1908 d. 1992)

Oil

Pyles Mountain Lane

#550006540X30I1600054

Vladan Stiha was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on October 18, 1908. He came from a family of artists and initially learned to paint and draw from his father. Later he studied at The Academy of Arts in Vienna and the Academy of Art in Rome.  After Yugoslavia was invaded during World War II, Stiha fled to South America, where he and wife Elena lived in Buenos Aires for ten years, later moving to Sao Paulo for the ensuing ten years. Stiha's studio and art school in Brazil was located across the street from the American Embassy. His reputation as a celebrated European and South American artist attracted the attention of the United States through the American Consulate. The Stihas were offered citizenship when Vladan was 62 years old. After a short stay on the West Coast, they found their way to New Mexico, opening the Stiha Gallery at the historic La Fonda Hotel in 1971.  Stiha is best known for his Western American landscapes, Native Americans and cowboys. He died on April 25th, 1992 in Santa Fe, NM. His work is on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Peaceful Day                         $2,500 SOLD

Vladin Stiha (b.1908 d.1992)

Framed Print 20X27

Pyles Mountain Lane

#50006540X5NI54A

 

Cabin in Pine Flats              $2,200 SOLD

James E. Boren (b 1921-1990)

8x10 Watercolor

MIM 2021 #21

#5250680X16I500082CDA

James Boren was born in Waxahachie, Texas in 1921. He knew as a teenager that he wanted to be an illustrator but his schooling at Southwestern College was interrupted by four years of military service in the Marines during World War II.  After the war in 1951, he earned his M.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and then taught for two years at St. Mary's College.
With his earnings, he traveled the Southwest and also painted in Alaska, and in 1956 moved to Denver where he worked as a concept illustrator for the Martin Company.  In 1959, he began selling cowboy paintings. In 1965, Boren became the first art director of the newly opened National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Here, among masterpieces of early western, he was inspired to pursue his own fine art ambitions. The young association of western artists, the Cowboy Artists of America, exhibited annually at the Cowboy Hall. Boren was given membership in the group and soon after gave up his position as art director and began to paint full-time.
He was named Texas State Artist of the Year, and as a member of the Cowboy Artists of America, won the gold medal in watercolor seven times.  His paintings consistently reflected his belief that the American cowboy had the star role in the drama of the West - the most beautiful country anywhere.

Where Water Flows              $ 9,500

6216 BCROKC

Sonya Terpening (b.1953)

Rare early Oil 24x30

#552006720X13I520055

Sonya Terpening has been painting for 20+ years. She primarily worked in watercolor. Today she paints in both mediums and states that "the subject often tells me which medium to choose". She has been in the prestigious Prix de West show in Oklahoma City

at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for many years. This show continually sells over $3 million dollars in one night every June. She has also been in the Masters of the American West invitational at the Autry Center in Los Angeles, Ca. In 2004 her work was exhibited by invitation at the Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, making her one of the first women to show at the museum. She was subsequently invited to three other major shows there. In February of 2008 she was awarded the Autry National Center Award for Watercolor at the Masters of the American West Exhibition Sale.  She currently resides in Texas with her husband, Mark.

Clearing Rancho de Taos          $ 2,550 SOLD

James Kramer (b.1927)

10x15 Watercolor

MIM 2021 #20

#517506150X17I175098CDA

James Kramer was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1927. He studied at he Cleveland School of Art and Ohio State University. After entering the architectural profession he continued to exhibit his paintings in Ohio and California after moving to Carmel in 1957. He was both an artist and architect until he retired from architecture in 1970. He then devoted his full time to his painting. Early in his career, Kramer was attracted to watercolor because he found an inner light there that could not be achieved with opaque media.

Awards, exhibitions and other highlights include: Frederick Remington Award for Artistic Merit; Cowboy Hall of Fame Gold Medals and Silver Medals for watercolor. His art is featured in collections at the University of Nevada, The Museum of Western Art; Monterrey Peninsula's Museum of Art and Georgetown Historical Society.

 

Guarding the Winter Camp        $ 4,800 

Fred Fellows (b.1934)

9x12 Oil

6216 BCROKC

#512006108X44I120015

 

Fred Fellows is a painter and sculptor who works in the realist style. He was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, where he was influenced by the sculptures of the Otoe and Osage Indians, whose reservations were nearby.

In 1968, Fellows was voted into membership of the Cowboy Artists of America, a group founded in Arizona of western artists dedicated to the traditional style and western subject matter of Charles Russell and Frederic Remington. In 1997, he served as President of the CAA. Awards include: Artists Choice, 2007; Oil Painting Award, Silver 1988; Sculpture Award, Gold Medal 1991 and 1995; Drawing and Other Media, Silver 1989; Drawing Award, Silver 1977; Kieckhefer Award Best of Show 1991; and CAA Memorial Award 1975.

His western painting and sculptures have been featured in many magazines and selected for world-wide advertising by Philip Morris, Inc. In 1981, his artwork was included in the first American art exhibit in mainland China. He lives in Sonoita, Az.

 

Chief                                      $ 8,500 SOLD

Harley Brown  (b1939)

20x16 Pastel

MIM 2021 #191

#535006320X66I500083CDA

A Western painter and sculptor of figures and domestic animals, Harley Brown was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1939, and lives in Tucson, Arizona.  His father was an amateur artist who encouraged his young son from age seven to pursue art.  After graduation from high school, young Brown began doing department store window displays for an impressive $150 a month.
Later, he attended the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, supporting himself by selling his drawings door to door, and playing piano professionally.  After studying at the Camberwell School of Art in England for two years, Brown began to make a name for himself  in Western art, and in 1966, he returned to Canada.  Shortly after, Brown met Bob Morgan, curator of the Montana State Historical Society.  Morgan put together a one-man show for Brown, where he sold all 70 of his paintings.
Brown's work is in the collections of the C. M. Russell Museum; National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; and Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles. Harley Brown was commissioned to paint Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and has painted many portraits of other well-known persons including President Ronald Reagan.  His painting media include oil, watercolor and pastel. 

Cherokee Dancer                $3,100  

             

Roy Grinnell (b. 1933)

12x8 Oil

#51500696X32I150025

Roy Grinnell was born in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating from the Santa Barbara High School, he served four years in the Navy. He spent a semester at the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, followed by twelve years of study and work with top illustrators in New York City. Then he spent three years in commercial art in California, before moving to Santa Fe in 1978. He is well known as a painter of Western Historical themes and for aviation art.

As the Official Artist and Honoree of the American Fighter Aces Association, Roy has completed close to 50 original paintings for the AFAA, accurately portraying the aerial combat of Aces from WWI, WWII, Vietnam and the Korean War. These paintings are based upon the oral history of the Aces involved and as close as they can be to what really transpired. His affiliations include the Society of American Historical Artists and the Cowboy Artist of America (CAA). In 1991, he won the Silver Award for Drawing and Other Water Media from the CAA.

The Intruders                     $ 12,600 SOLD

Don Spaulding (b. 1926)

20x30 Charcoal

MIM 2021 #293

#518006I10000119CDA

Don Spaulding was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1926. His artistic talents were recognized early. Encouraged by his high school teachers to pursue formal art training, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City a month before the draft called in 1944. Following his military service, he returned to the Art Students League for four years of study under Frank Vincent DuMond, Robert Beverly Hale and William McNulty. In addition, he studied for five months with Norman Rockwell in his Vermont studio. In 1952, he started his career as a freelance illustrator by painting covers for "Lone Ranger" and other Dell comic books. For the next 25 years, Spaulding worked for a wide range of publishing clients. In 1976, he ventured into the world of Western paintings. Four years later, Spaulding had become a full time Western artist. Spaulding's paintings have appeared on the covers of national magazines. Many are owned by several museums, including West Point Museum, New York; Fort Riley Cavalry Museum, Kansas; United States War College and the Pentagon, both in Washington, D.C.; and the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia.

 

 

Midday Sun                   $ 17,300 SOLD

Greg Beecham (b1954)

22x36 Oil

#525006792X27I990078MIM#85

Born to wildlife artist father, Tom Beecham, Greg Beecham had art instruction from his childhood. Bob Kuhn was also an important mentor.  Beecham was raised on a dairy farm in upstate New York, and his real passion is the outdoors.  It is said that everything Beecham paints has a golden hue, a trademark in his paintings of wildlife in landscape. Greg’s vision is to “sculpt with paint” – that is to paint in such a way that there is not only the illusion of dimension, but genuine depth to the paint itself. He believes that if he can speak with paint more than detail, that the net result will be a life expressing realism.
 In 1994, he won the Wildlife Art News Award for his image of two Canadian geese flying in snowy woods, and in 2004, he was elected a member of the Northwest Rendezvous.  At the 2004 Western Rendezvous of Art he won the People's Choice Award and an Award of Merit for his painting, Ice Floe Overlook.  Greg Beecham was named the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Artist of the Year for 2005.
 He lives in Dubois in the Wind River area of Wyoming.

 

The Sunbather            $16,200  SOLD

Greg Beecham (b.1954)

20x30 Oil

#525006600X27I750077MIM#441

Down for a Drink for Christian            $ 32,400 

Greg Beecham (b. 1954)

30x40 Oil

6216 BCROKC

#51450061200X27NI131

 

 

Aspens at Twining      $8,500 SOLD

Robert Daughters

24x18 Oil

#540006

 

 

Hazing Broomtails for Cambria                $ 5,600

Tom Beecham  (b.1926- d.2000)

28x50  Oil   '82

6216 BCROKC

#590061400X4I900079

Tom Beecham was born on a cattle ranch and farm near Goodland, Kansas in 1926. His family moved to Colorado when he was twelve years old. He went to Grand Junction High School, graduated in 1944, and joined the Navy, serving in the South Pacific. In 1947, he was accepted at The St. Louis School of Fine Arts and chose to be an illustrator. After arriving in New York in 1951, he got his first job from a science fiction magazine. He worked for many of the publishers of the area and a large number of the advertising agencies.
 In 1973, he began painting western and wildlife painting full time. He was a member of the Society of American Historical Artists.
He also served as president of the Society of American Historical Artists.  During his 30 year career, he painted about 360 paintings, with 12 published each year as prints and calendars.
 Several of his children are artists: Greg Beecham, wildlife painter; Susan Beecham Bach, an artist; and Jo Beecham Dallas, artist and designer.

 

 

Ute Country Crossing                 $ 8,000 SOLD

Tom Beecham  (b.1926-d.2000)

24x40  Oil   '82

#510006960X4I1000080MIM#440
 

Night                                      $ 250 SOLD

R C Gorman (1932-2005)

22x30 Signed

#517006660X4I170094

 

 

Wet Coming Out Dry            $ 13,900 SOLD

Dennis Anderson (b.1940-d.2005)

19x23  Oil

#517506437X9I500074MIM#122

 

Dennis P. Anderson, a native of Seattle, Washington, was born in 1940 and died in 2005. He was a Realist/impressionist/representational oil painter of wildlife.  It was said that he was interested not in how other people saw an animal, but in the impression the animal made on him, using color to achieve his effects.
 As a child, Anderson had many pets typically considered wild animals, such as rabbits, raccoons, and foxes. These were an inspiration and source of art for him. As he became older, he regularly went through the motions of hunting, but would use a camera instead of a gun. Anderson attended the Art Center School for two years. Later he worked as an illustrator for the Department of Defense, as a scientific illustrator for the University of California, as a designer for Hallmark Cards, and as a freelance illustrator.  He was a full-time artist as of 1973.
 His works are on permanent display at Benson Park Sculpture Center, Loveland, CO; Topeka Zoo, Topeka, KS; Tulsa Zoo, Tulsa, OK; Oklahoma City Zoo, Oklahoma City, OK; Springfield Zoo, Springfield, MO; and Detroit Zoo, Detroit, MI.

Jan with Wildflowers          $ 3,200 

Susan Lyon (b.1969)

20x12 Oil

6216 BCROKC

524006240X13NI132

 

Susan Lyon, inspired by the work of Georgia O'Keefe, enrolled in the American Academy of Art in Chicago to study painting near her childhood home in Oak Park, Il.

She first exhibited work with the historic Palette and Chisel Group. At age twenty-three, she became the youngest winner of the groups Gold Medal.

Lyon has gone on to an illustrious career winning awards at the Oil Painters of America show among others. Working primarily in the mediums of oil and charcoal, she seeks to represent common still life objects in challenging and original ways. Drawn to whimsical and feminine beauty, she chooses subject matter such as animals or dolls that she encounters in her day to day life. Looking to painters such as Zorn, Fechin, Sorolla and Celia Beaux, Lyon combines impressionistic colors with a realist technique by painting wet on wet and then wet on dry for details. Currently residing in North Carolina with fellow artist and husband, Scott Burdick (see below), Susan Lyon seeks to create art that engages the viewer.

 

  

Warmth                          $ 15,000

Scott Burdick  (b.1967)

44x32  Oil

6216 BCROKC

#5920061408X10I15000*84

 

Scott Burdick was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. He studied at the American Academy of Art on scholarship when he was still in high school.  In the mid-1980s, he began painting informally with Richard Schmid at the Palette & Chisel Club, a mansion converted into studio space by Art Institute students. Burdick briefly did illustration but was successful fairly early as a fine artist.
His ideas for paintings come from everywhere. "What makes a subject attractive to me are the same things that attract us all. The beauty of a young girl, the character of a weathered face, the solitude of a farm at sunset, or even the story itself behind someone or something that makes it interesting." Scott believes it is the job of the artist to recognize this when it happens, analyze why, and use his technical skills to convey the feeling to someone else. He notes that some paintings are as simple as stopping at the sight of something interesting, while others may take more time to research than to actually paint.
He is married to the artist Susan Lyon (see above). They live in a rural area of North Carolina.

 

Indian Harvest         $ 9,000 SOLD

Joni Falk   (b.1933)

20x30 Oil  

#558006600X15I9500120

 

Falk was born in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother died when she was a toddler and she was raised by her father and her aunt, who encouraged her artistic interest. She majored in English and business at Marquette College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
A still life, portrait, and western landscape painter, Joni Falk is a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, and is known for her crisp, realistic, and lushly colored artwork. Many of her still lifes are of Indian pottery and she travels frequently to Indian pueblos and reservations.  It is also here that she gets subject matter for her landscapes.
 Falk's exhibitions include The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming; the Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Cheyenne’s Old West Museum; The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; and the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona; the McAllen Museum, McAllen, Texas; and the Phippen Museum, Prescott, Arizona.
 

 

Days Last Run               $ 42,000 SOLD

Dan Gerhartz  (b1965)

30x70 Oil

51900062100X20I19000121CDA

 

Gerhartz was born in Kewaskum, Wisconsin. He has a particular interest and appreciation for modern Russian art and the sumptuous canvases of the painters Nicolai Fechin, Isaac Levitan and Ilya Repin. Dan's paintings embrace a range of subjects, most prominently the female figure in either a pastoral setting or an intimate interior. He is at his best with subjects from everyday life, genre subjects, sacred-idyllic landscapes or figures in quiet repose, meditation or contemplative isolation.
His mastery of the female figure, the clothed figure especially, is brilliant. He has drawn inspiration from the very old tradition of romanticism and symbolism. His absolutely lavish surfaces, color and lighting are in harmony with his expressionistic brushstroke, application and modeling of light and shade. His accomplishments and achievements have made him one of the "10 Hottest Realistic Painters" according to Art Talk magazine.
About his work Dan has said, "My desire as an artist is that the images I paint would point to the Creator, and not to me, the conveyor. J.S. Bach said it well as he signed his work, 'Soli Deo Gloria,' To God alone be the glory."
Gerhartz resides in Kewaskum with his wife Jennifer and their children.
 

Awaiting His Return            $ 150,000

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b. 1965)

72x96 Oil

#56250066912X20I6250017

Girl with a Bowl                   $ 38,400

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b.1965)

40x48 Oil (Painting is larger than it appears)

#51400061920X20I1000024

 

Morning Break           $ 46,100

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b.1965)

48x48 Oil

#51600062304X20I1600023

Carefree                        $ 57,600

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b.1965)

48x60 Oil   (Painting is larger than it appears)

#52500062880X20I2500018

 

Morning in May            $ 48,000

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b.1965)

40x60 Oil (Painting is larger than it appears)

#52200062400X20I2200020

Grandpa's Favorite Story       $58,000 

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b.1965)

36x57 Oil 

#51450062052X28I1450019

 

 

 

 

Summer Stories              $ 28,800 SOLD 

March In Montana 2021 #723

Dan Gerhartz  (b1965)

30x48  Oil

#51350061440X20I13500122CDA

 

 

June Blossoms             $ 26,000

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b.1965)

36x36 Oil

#51250061296X20I1250021

Valentine                     $ 6,800

6216 BCROKC

Dan Gerhartz (b.1965)

24x14 Oil

#523506336X20I235022

 

Gray Skies                 $ 200 SOLD

C.C. Faubion (b.1943)

22x28 Mixed Media

#55006616X4I50087

CC Faubion was born in Bryan, Texas. She has a B.S. in Art Education and Master of Art from West Texas State University. She has studied under Paul Williams, Joseph Donaldson, John C. Pellew and Robert Wood. Her major influencer has been Dr. Emilio Cabellero. She has been in numerous Art Exhibits around the country where she has placed with Honorable Mention. In the "Best of the Southwest" 2016 she garnered Third Place and previously placed in First Place and Honorable Mention. In the Clayton Arts Festival, she was given the coveted Purchase Award. In 2019, she was included in the Texas Women Artist Exhibition in honor of Ann Crouch. One of her most interesting purchasers was the Japanese artist, Tenkei Tachibana, who bought one of her pieces a few years back. Later, she learned he was named Pope of Japan, titular head of all the shrines and temples in Japan. As such, his name was changed to Komatsuin Tenkei Hohshinno. Her work with watercolor and pastels is second to none. She is a wonderful artist that should not be missed.

 

 

Winter Farm                   $ 175 SOLD

C.C. Faubion (b.1943)

20x14 Watercolor

#52506280X7I50086

 

The Old Mill                  $ 250 SOLD

C.C. Faubion (b.1943)

18x24 Watercolor

#54006432X4I50090

 

Blizzard                       $ 150 SOLD

C.C. Faubion (b.1943)

18x24 Watercolor

#54506432X4I50089

Spain Casa                            $ NFS

6216 BCROKC

C. C.  Faubion (b.1943)

10x14 Watercolor

#5600140X14I50014

 

Night Shadows                      $ 1,320 SOLD

Bert Seabourn (b. 1931)

22x30 Watercolor

#526506660X2I2650111

Primarily a painter of Indian subjects, Bert Seabourn is an American expressionist who also paints non-Indian figures, landscapes, and occasionally flowers. As an expressionist, he uses the technique of dripping, smearing, and splattering the paint--acrylic, oil and watercolor. He also works with graphics.
 In 1976, the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma designated Seabourn a Master Artist, and in 1981, he received the Oklahoma Governor's Art Award. In 1986, his sculpture, "Wind Walker," a 23-foot bronze, was unveiled at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's State Headquarters in Oklahoma City, and in 1997, Oklahoma City University awarded him their highest honor, Honorary Degree of Humane Letters. In 2004, Seabourn received Oklahoma's Living Treasure Award and in 2009, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award and was named Artist of the Year, by the Oklahoma City Paseo Art Association.
 Seabourn was born in Iraan, Texas, and began drawing cartoons as a child growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma.
 In addition to museums, his work is in the personal collection of George and Barbara Bush and is in the Gerald Ford Library Collection.
 He currently teaches painting at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City and Fine Arts Academy, Edmond, Oklahoma and has been married to Bonnie Jo Tompkins for 60 plus years. Seabourn says, “My art is like the Oklahoma winds...ever changing, growing and finding new directions… I love to paint and I hope it shows.” 
 

 

Night Shadows                 $ 150 SOLD

Bert Seabourn (b. 1931)

22x30 Signed Print Framed

#50006660X1NI133

 

Ojibway Fancy Dance             $ 3,480 SOLD

Don Seegmiller (b.1955)

19x15 Oil

#530006285X12I300074

Don Seegmiller is an artist and retired art professor. He graduated from Brigham Young University in graphic arts and illustration. He worked as an illustrator and character designer for Saffire Corporation. He served as art director at Imagine Learning. He serves on the Corel painter Advisory committee. He is a beta tester for Adobe Photoshop and for Corel painter and Silicon Benders Sketchable app. He taught concept art at Utah Valley University. He is the author of "Digital Character Design and Painting"; "The Photoshop CS edition"; " Digital Character Painting Using Photoshop CS3"; and "Advanced Painter Techniques." He coauthored "Digital Painting 2". He has taught numerous digital painting workshops and has spoken at the annual Game Developers Conference. His work on this site is from his early years of figure and portrait painting capturing the Native American culture in the New Mexico and Arizona areas.

 

 

Meeah                        $ 4,000 SOLD

Don Seegmiller (b. 1955)

20x12 Oil

#520006240X16I500072

Evening Light                  $ 2,500

6216 BCROKC

Don Seegmiller (b.1955)

11x14 Oil

#514506154X16I145073

 

Lionesses                          $ 3,000 SOLD

Robert Bateman (b. 1930)

18x33 Signed Print

#510006NI129

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1930, Robert Bateman was a keen artist and naturalist from his early days. Bateman painted wildlife and wilderness in a representational style until his teens when he began to interpret nature using a variety of contemporary styles including post-impressionism and abstract expressionism. In the early 60s, Bateman rediscovered realism and began to develop the style that would make him one of the foremost artists depicting the world of nature. In the 70s and early 80s, Bateman's work began to receive critical acclaim and to attract an enormous following.
 His work is currently shown in: Art Gallery of Greater

 Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia; Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma;  Denver Art Museum; Hamilton Art Gallery, Ontario; Genesee  Country Museum, New York; Glenbow Museum, Alberta; and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson WY.

 

 

 

Navajo Ribbons (Canyon de Chelly)   $10,300

6216 BCROKC

Laurence Sisson (b.1928-2015)

48x36 Oil

#5650061728X6I10000113

Sisson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1928.  He studied at Yale Summer School and was artist-in-residence at Publick House in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1955 became Director of the Portland, Maine School of Fine and Applied Art.
At the age of 23, Laurence Sisson had his first solo exhibition at Vose Gallery in Boston. Since then, he has exhibited his work extensively at galleries including the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, the National Academy of Design, the Allied Artists of America, the American Federation of the Arts Traveling Exhibition, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Portland Museum of Art, among many others.
Sisson’s work is on display at: Boston Museum of Fine Art; Berkshire Museum of Art; Columbia Museum of Art in North Carolina; Worcester Museum of Art; Albuquerque Museum; Portland Museum of Art; Bowdoin College; Colby College; Dartmouth University;  and Clark University. 

 

Burgundy Autumn          $ 1,500 

6216BCROKC

Beki Killorin

36x36 Mixed Media

#572561296X2I72597

 

Beki Killorin, a native Oklahoman, received most of her training in art in her home state.  Oil, inks and watercolors have been the cornerstone of her artistic growth.  Over the past 25 years, her work has brought her national recognition.
This early piece, according to Killorin, was towards the end of the period when she was working in
mixed media, combining acrylic, watercolor, oil and decoupage. 
In 1983, she took a major step into printmaking.  The technical challenge of this medium, combined with her already well-defined skills as a professional artist, has provided a positive avenue for printmaking as
a full time career.  Today her etchings and watercolors are represented by galleries both nationally and abroad.
In 1987 Beki and her husband relocated to the Pacific Northwest and from her studio in Washington's Northern Puget Sound, she has been able to devote full time to the development of her etchings and also further refine her skills in her beloved medium, watercolor.
Beki's style provides a contemporary look to familiar subjects that brings a unique life and spirit to each piece she produces. Each work of art receives her special imprint... a small red dot that precedes her signature. It is an acknowledgment and affirmation of the wonder of God's creation and His ever-present and lasting love for all.

 

 

 

Great Buffalo Spirits       $ 2,500 SOLD

Jim Fallier (b. 1930)

20x30 Watercolor

#56006I200086

 

Jim Fallier is an American painter who was born in Syracuse, New York.  He served in the Korean War then studied at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver.  He was a master designer and art director for American Greeting Card Company in Cleveland, Ohio, but he regularly returned to Syracuse to paint, teach painting, and train quarter horses.
Fallier began painting full-time in 1967. In 1971 he opened a studio and gallery in Wichita, Kansas.
His work has been exhibited at: American Watercolor Society, National Academy of Design, and the  National Academy of Painters.
 His work is also in the collection at Coutts Memorial Museum of Art.

 

Sea Captain                      $ 400 SOLD

P. Grinel

20x16 Oil

#50016320X1NI134

I Know You                  $ 1,200

Tillman

16x20 Oil

#53256320X4I32556

 

Frontrunner                        $ 3,500 SOLD

Harland Young (b. 1924-2015)

16x20 Oil

#51100620X8I2500117

 

Young was born in 1924 in the Ozark mountain town of Neosho, Missouri, but he grew up on a horse and cattle ranch in California. Thus began his intense admiration for animals and the outdoors.  Except for his period of service with the Air Corps in World War II, his entire life has been devoted to his art and his horses.  He attended the Art Center College in Los Angeles and graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor's of Fine Art degree.  He then worked for eleven years as a commercial illustrator for an ad agency.  In 1956 he opened his first studio.
In the mid-seventies, Young decided to concentrate solely on his art, and in 1976, sold his ranch. From that time to the present, Young has owned five art galleries in Laguna Beach, California and Scottsdale, AZ. Harland Young lived in Scottsdale, Arizona where he continued to produce fine art, much of which reflected a lifelong admiration of wildlife and natural beauty until his death in 2015.

 

 

 

Laguna Bowls with Kachina                $ 3,600 SOLD

MIM 2021 #357

Michael McCullough (b. 1951)

36x72 Acrylic

#5250062592X2NI135CDA

 

Born in Texas in 1951, Michael McCullough was educated at West Texas State University where he earned a B.S. and a Master's Degree. He is known as a painter and a potter who  paints the changing landscape around him and also creates Indian-style pottery with intricate designs.
He is a member of the Choctaw Indian Nation in Oklahoma. He specializes in original paintings of authentic images reflecting the culture and history of the Southwest.  His works may be seen at several galleries in the New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado areas as well as Santa Fe Indian Market, Heard Museum Indian Market (Phoenix), Eight Northern Pueblo Market (Espanola, NM) and many more.
Interestingly, he has a twin brother, Stephen, who is also a well-known artist.

He and his wife live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

Red Earth                             $ 3,300 SOLD

MIM 2021 #358
Michael McCullough (b. 1951)
28x60 Acrylic
#5250061680X2NI136CDA

 

Heirloom                              $ 3,000 SOLD

MIM 2021 #295

Sergon (b. 1945)

24x36 Oil

#515006I1500116CDA

 

Sergon was born in Manila in 1945 and is now a California resident. He grew up surrounded by the diverse cultural influences of China, Japan, and South East Asia.  After winning first place in a nationwide painting competition, he was admitted as scholar to the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts and later went on further studies at the Scudia Lorenzo de Medici in Florence, Italy.  
He is noted for his paintings of still lives and lush gardens.  His canvases of Japanese Koi fish and lovely, mysterious women garbed in richly colored Japanese kimonos give an insight into his skills as an artist.  The paintings are realistic in form and detail, and yet there is an impressionist aura surrounding each piece.  It is the blend of technical ability and specific subject matter that creates a work revealing the life within the image.
Sergon has achieved recognition here and abroad.  His works are on display in various private and government offices, notably the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C.   Collectors of his work include Uri Geller, Gabe Kaplan, and the former First Lady of the Philippines, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos.  She not only owns a substantial number of his paintings but specially commissioned Sergon to paint murals for the Chief Executive Palace. He has also represented the Philippines in international art shows in Australia and Spain.

 

Blue Turquoise                         $ 3,500 SOLD

MIM 2021 #296

Richard V. Goetz (1915-1991)

24x20 Oil

#536006I600094CDA

 

Born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, Richard Vernon Goetz grew up in Pryor Creek, Oklahoma.
For many years after his marriage to Edith Goetz, also an artist, Goetz lived and worked in Oklahoma City where he conducted his own art school.  The Oklahoma City Art Center has an important collection of his paintings and drawings.  A Grand Central artist member for over 25 years, Goetz exhibited with galleries in New York and Santa Fe.  He has also exhibited with the National Academy of Western Art at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, and in the Western Heritage Sale in Texas.
Goetz's many awards include the McDonough and Purchase Awards at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; and the President's Award, American Artists Professional League.  Before moving to upper Westchester County, New York, where he maintained his studio, Richard Goetz painted numerous portraits including those of the late President John F. Kennedy and the legendary Washington party-giver Perle Mesta.
He was the director of the Goetz Art School in Oklahoma City from 1946.  He also opened an art school in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1971. From 1964 to 1971, he was co-director of the Malden Bridge Art School in New York.

 

 

Winding to Walpi                           $8,640 

Joan Marron-LaRue (b. 1934)

36x24 Oil

6216 BCROKC

#521006864X5-14I4000106

 

Joan Marron LaRue was born in Custer, Oklahoma and grew up in Clinton, Oklahoma. She earned a BA from the University of Oklahoma in Norman. She later was a Professor of Art at the University of Oklahoma from 1956 to 1958 and 1970 to 1980.
LaRue‘s impressionist paintings include landscapes, harbor scenes, and florals.
 Mural installation are in Barth Bracken Ranch, Ft. Gibson, OK; Mercy Health Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Robert S. Kerr Conference Center, Poteau, OK; and State Senate, Oklahoma Capitol, Oklahoma City, OK.
Her work is in the permanent collection at: Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City, Integris Health Oklahoma City,   St. Anthony Health Center, Oklahoma State Capitol, Oklahoma State Art Collection, Robert S. Kerr Conference Center, Frye Museum, and the Montana Historical Society and Museum.
She has noted: “I find that the more I paint, the more I observe and the more I realize what I missed observing the year before. I don’t know if the process will ever end. I hope it doesn’t.” 

 

 

 

The Good Ole Days                   $8,640

Joan Marron-LaRue (b. 1934)
36x48 Oil

6216 BCROKC

#5337561728X5-14I6000104

 

Sunsmoke                                  $ 8,640

Joan Marron-LaRue (b.1934)

24x36 Oil

6216 BCROKC

#522006864X5-14I2200107

Reflections of San Juan Capistrano     $8,640 

Joan Marron - LaRue (b.1934)

36x24 Oil

6216 BCROKC

#515006864X5-14I400037

Catalina                          $ 10,100

6216 BCROKC

Joan Marron - LaRue (b.1934)

Oil 24x30

#565006720X5-14NI137

 

Queen of Catalina                    $ 10,100

6216 BCROKC

Joan Marron - LaRue (b.1934)

Oil 24x30

#565006720X5-14NI138

 

Interesting facts about the "Casino" on Catalina Island. Casino in Italian means gathering place; so no gambling here.  William Wrigley Jr. commissioned the construction of Catalina Casino in 1929 to mark the 10 year anniversary of his 1919 purchase of Catalina Island.  Now at approximately 100 years later, this eleven story icon stands as a reminder to Catalina's historic beginnings as a romantic escape for the millions who made the 26 mile trip across the sea from California to enjoy a movie, dinner and dancing during the Casino's early days as the hub of Avalon nightlife.

This art deco masterpiece was the first theatre in America designed and built specifically for"talkies" on the lower level. The world's largest circular ballroom on the top level was host to as many as 6,000 dancers to the sounds of big band music. The romance and charm abounds in this glorious pavilion.

Taos House                     $ 1,580    SOLD

Joan Marron - LaRue (b.1934)

12x12 Oil     

#500056144X5-14I350105

 

 

 

Uzbeki Mode                          $1,800  SOLD SHALL

Joan Marron-Larue (b. 1934)
6x11 Oil

#500066X27I500110S
 

Yuk Yuk   (2 paintings)                $ 1,200     SOLD

Joan Marron - LaRue (b.1934)

Oils

#52506NI140

Catalina Casino at Dawn               $ 4,200 SOLD

Glenna Hartmann (b.1948-2008)

Pyles Mountain Lane

Pastel 11x14

#512006154X8NI137

 

The seller of this piece actually witnessed it being painted on Catalina Island in a Plein Air Exhibit from a photograph. As some people may or may not  know the word Casino in Italian means gathering place; so no gambling here!( See above in Joan Marron Larue's work for more info on the Casino).

Glenna Hartmann was born in Morristown, NJ in 1948. She studied mathematics and physics at Wells College in New York. Answering the call of her adventurous spirit, she transferred to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art where she was awarded a Schiedt traveling scholarship for independent studies in Europe. She also attended the mural painting school in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. When she moved to Carpinteria in the 1970s her mural painting skills were put to use at city hall.

In 1987 she was invited to join the fledgling Oak Group. Despite her many accomplishments and recognition she remained unassuming, warm and accessible. She was down to earth and enjoyed simple pleasures. 

 

 

The Peacemaker                   $6,000 SOLD MM

James M. Trigg (b. 1951)

20x16 Acrylic Trompe l'oeil

#500026

 

Santa Fe artist James Trigg was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1951, and has lived in or near the state of New Mexico all of his life. His father noticed his talent at an early age, and arranged for James to start private art lessons with Farmington artist Pearl Scott while he was still in elementary school. Continuing his studies through high school, James won many honors both statewide and locally. James graduated from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 1974. Painting professionally since graduating from college, James has come to concentrate primarily on southwestern themes in oils.
His strong desire to continually improve his work has led him to complete many classes, workshops and seminars and seek critiques from other well known artists. James visited the Santa Fe and Taos areas frequently in his early adulthood to gather subject matter and to meet and study with the many artists living there.
In May 2000 James moved to Santa Fe where he has lived and worked out of his home studio since that time. 
 

 

Rush                                  $ 24,500 SOLD

Paco Young (1958-2005)

36x48 Oil

#52250061728X15I22500122MIM#119

 

Paco Young was born in Biloxi, MS on January 28, 1958 and died on December 1, 2005 after a long battle with leukemia.  He was raised in a family of musicians in Nashville, Tennessee and attended the Memphis College of Art where he met and married Toni Taylor Young.
For ten years, his studio was in Atlanta, Georgia where he did traditional wildlife painting, but in 1994,
he and his family moved to land on the Gallatin River near Bozeman, Montana.  He discovered his passion for plein air landscape painting while living in Montana.
Young was commissioned by the National Park Service to complete a 8 X 6 foot painting of
a standing grizzly for the Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Paco was a prolific artist whose talents ran from the prints currently published by Hadley Publishing to the sporting and wildlife art used by National Rifle Association, Ducks Unlimited, Ruffed Grouse Society, Quail Unlimited, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation to raise millions of dollars for conservation; from the immense oils that grace such prestigious establishments as Old Faithful Lodge in Yellowstone Park and the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Nebraska to the plein-air miniature landscapes he so loved to paint while on family camping trips in the Beartooths or near Georgetown Lake.
Paco`s love of nature and light is evident in every painting he produced, and he inspired hundreds of upcoming artists in the various workshops he and Toni conducted. This piece was purchased originally the year before he died. Such a tragic loss of someone so talented.
 
 

 

 

 

Winter Scouts               $ 3,150 SOLD

MIM 2021 #14

Mike Larsen (b. 1945)

15x30 Acrylic

#518006450X7I4000101CDA

Born in 1944 in Dallas, Texas of Chickasaw heritage, Larsen grew up in Wynnewood, Oklahoma and spent his youth between the two states. He studied art at the University of Houston and completed his formal studies at the Art Students League in New York City.
An Oklahoma painter and sculptor, he depicts his own Chickasaw ancestors. One of his largest projects was a three-year effort: "Mike Larsen: Shamans of the Nations," that culminated in a May, 1998 exhibition at the Oklahoma City Art Museum. It was a visual tribute to the Native American tribes of Oklahoma with portraits of the shamans from the various nations dressed in their clothing typical of their life before they were relocated.
In 1996, he was named a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma. His mural, "Flight of the Spirit," a tribute to five Native American ballet dancers is installed at the Oklahoma State Capitol.
In the Fall of 2012 Mike completed "The Arrival" for the Chickasaw Cultural Center. It is a twice life bronze representing the new start of the Chickasaw Nation after removal from the Homeland.

 

 

The Blue Scarf               $ $3,200 SOLD

MIM 2021 #14

Mike Larsen (b. 1945)
14x16 Acrylic

#58756224X7I3000102CDA

 

(View an excellent sculpture by this artist Under Buy Art and More Sculpture called "Freedom Indian on Rock" by Mike Larsen).

 

 

 

 

The Healer                    $ 3,200 SOLD

MIM 2021 #14

Mike Larsen (b. 1945)
16x23 Acrylic

#511006368X7I3000100CDA
 

 

 

Cheyenne Warriors               $3,250 SOLD

MIM 2021 #14

Mike Larsen (b. 1945)
10x24 Acrylic

#59506240X7I250099CDA

 

Flight of Spirit                         $ 1,500 SOLD

Mike Larsen (b. 1945)

Framed and Signed Print by the artist and the Five world-renowned Native American Ballerinas (1991)

#50006NI151

 

 

Night                                   $ 2,500 SOLD

R.C. Gorman (1932-2005)

22x30 Signed Lithograph, 53/70

#51700660X4I170094

 

The artist was born Rudolph Carl Gorman in 1931 in Chinle, Arizona. Gorman was the son of Adele Katherine Brown and Carl Gorman - the renowned artist, teacher and Navajo Code Talker. In the seventh grade, Gorman began selling his artwork to nurses and doctors at the mission school. After graduating in 1951, Gorman joined the Navy before entering college.
In the summer of 1956, he worked at Disneyland, where he dressed as a Native American and paddled a canoe. In 1958, he received the first scholarship from the Navajo Tribal Council to study outside of the United States, and enrolled in the art program at Mexico City College.  In 1964, Dorothy Brett agreed to handle Gorman's work and exhibited it at the Manchester Gallery on Ledoux Street.
With his hard-earned money and a loan from his parents, Gorman bought the Manchester Gallery and opened the Navajo Gallery, the first Native American-owned gallery.  The Navajo Gallery held its first group exhibition in May 1969.
R.C. Gorman died at age 74 in Albuquerque's University Hospital. New Mexico's Governor, Bill Richardson, ordered that flags be flown at half-mast in Gorman's honor.

 

 

 

End of a Hard Day                 $ 4,500 SOLD

 

Michael Atkinson (b. 1946)

39x29 Acrylic

#5105061131X2I200076CDA

 

Michael Atkinson is a painter in watercolor in the abstract realist style of western and southwestern landscapes. He is also a sculptor of figurative, often nude, male and female figures, athletic in pose. He works in clay and then bronze.
From his Smoky Ridge studio in Texas, Atkinson seeks to “capture the emotion, be it subtle or exaggerated,” a pursuit that has been in evolution since he started painting as a child in the northwest Texas town of Lubbock.
Attracted early to the study of architecture, he earned a degree from Texas Tech University, then taught and worked in the field for a time. From the first, his art, prints and posters have reflected his training, experience, and wide-ranging interests, as he creates images – buildings, oceanscapes, animals, and Southwestern landscapes – through a unique, semi-abstract style and
a mastery of watercolor’s “spontaneity and freedom.”
White space is an essential element of the composition that characterizes Atkinson’s art, prints and posters. “The white is not empty. It is completely finished.” Treating the paper as an element of design, the artist works from one concentrated area of detail and color, leaving much of the paper white and allowing the eye to focus on the central image without intrusion from the periphery.

 

 

Mr. America                   $5,900 SOLD (PRINTS AVAILABLE)

Bill Jaxon (b. 1944)

21x17 Acrylic 

#590006357X5-12I680033

 

Bill Jaxon was born on a wheat farm in southwest Oklahoma and won his first art competition at the age of eight.  He attended and graduated from the University of Oklahoma.
After college Bill formed his own company doing illustrations for magazines and advertisements. He then became illustrator for Oklahoma's largest newspaper for five years. While holding this position, his paintings and sculptures were exhibited in art shows and galleries.
Jaxon has been voted one of America's 25 most popular artists by a survey of gallery owners and patrons. Since 1974 he has devoted full time to painting the American West. After receiving over 200 major awards and prizes and some 40 years of experience, Bill feels he is just getting started in making a lasting impression on the Western Art field.

 

 

 

Morning Crossing        $ 6,000 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b. 1944)

Pyles Mountain Lane
20x30 Acrylic

#560006600X5-12I600096

 

Master of High Country         $ 2,600 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

Pyles Mountain Lane

9x14 Acrylic

#55006126X5-12I90029

Eye to Eye                       $ 3,900 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

Pyles Mountain Lane

17x12 Acrylic 

#535006204X512I350097

The Posse                          $ 2,500 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

9x14 Acrylic

#53006126X512I30030

Last Light                          $ 2,800 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

8x20 Acrylic

#58506160X512I85028

Day Herder                         $ 2,100 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

4x15 Acrylic

#5900660X5-12NI143

Bolt Out of the Blue               $2,700 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

5x7 Acrylic

#5350635x5-12NI142       

(Picture unavailable at this time)

Money in Their Pockets               $2,500 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

5x15 Acrylic

#51800675x512NI147

 

 

The Good Times              $ 2,000 SOLD

Bill Jaxon (b. 1944)
9X20 Acrylic

#50006180X5-12NI165

 

Heart Starter                   $800 SOLD (PRINTS AVAILABLE)

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

22x16  Signed Framed Print

#55506352X2NI144

 

Heart Starter                    $125

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

22x16 Unframed Signed Print w/authentication                    

#50006352X1NI145

Winter on the Washita      $700 SOLD (PRINTS AVAILABLE)

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

17x21 Signed Framed Print 

#59006357X2I90032

 

Winter on the Washita        $125/each 

Bill Jaxon (b.1944)

Unframed Signed Print w/authentication               

#50006357X1NI142

 

Mt Moran                        $ 3,300 SOLD

MIM 2021 #262

Jim Wilcox (b.1941)

12x20 Oil

#518006240X14I5000136

 

As a young man, Jim Wilcox studied at Brigham Young University. He took two years off to serve as a missionary for the Mormon Church. Following graduation, he taught art at a high school near Seattle, Washington. He then moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to become a full-time artist.

Since 1969, he has painted extensively in Jackson Hole, and many other places around the world. Throughout his career, he has been able to both live in and visit his favorite places, expressing in paint the beauty that surrounds him and call it Work!

In 1987, he won the coveted Prix de West Purchase Award at he National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Prix de West show held annually every June, an award that he said changed his life. He has also won the prestigious Frederic Remington Award from the same show. In 1994, he won the Arts for the Parks award with its accompanying $50,000 grand prize.

 

Wyoming Sunset           $ 2,550 SOLD

MIM 2021 #262

Jim Wilcox (b.1941)

12x16 Oil

#512006192X14I40009137

Fire and Ice                               $24,400

6216 BCROKC

Jim Wilcox (b.1941)

30x48 Oil

#51400061440X17I1400068

Wood Gatherers                                $ 8,600 SOLD 

Newman Myrah (b.1921 d.2010)

24x36 Oil

#598006864X10I12500124

 

Realist-impressionist painter of the Northwest, Newman Myra was born in Holdfast, Saskatchewan in 1921. He lived in Portland, Or from 1949 to 1996. After high school, he went to commercial art school in Portland. During World War II he was in Japan. In 1949 he became a free-lance artist. By 1980 he was a full time fine art painter and credited Charles Russell for much of his inspiration. He was perhaps best known for his western scene paintings, especially horses and cowboys. Newman was one of the charter members of the Northwest Rendezvous Group. He moved to Helena, Montana in 1996 and lived there until his death in 2010.

In Sunshine Clad                      $ 5,050 SOLD

MIM 2021 #350

Richard S. Johnson (b.1953)

30x24 Oil

#537006720X7I3700123CDA

 

Born in Chicago in 1953 to an artistic family, his earliest reminiscences are of pouring through Charles Dana Gibson, N.C. Wyeth and John Singer Sargent books on rainy afternoons. While still in grade school he won a scholarship to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He later attended the American Academy of Art. Upon graduation he began a very successful career as an illustrator.

The luminescent beauty and lyrical quality of Johnson's work is what captivates collectors today. "Old Masters" technical virtuosity, pre-Raphael romanticism, contemporary expressionism and abstraction all combine to create his unique works of touching depth and artistry.

His commercial clients have ranged from industry leaders such as Volvo, McDonalds, Eli Lilly and United Airlines. His editorial work includes "Golf Digest", ABC Television and book covers for Nora Roberts, Dr. James Dobson and Readers Digest.

 

 

Rocky Mountains                       $ 2,600 SOLD

MIM 2021 #17

Dick Heichberger (b. 1945)

12x16 Oil

#515006192X14I150027CDA

 

Dick Heichberger was born in Eden, New York. During his formative years, he and his father hiked the Eastern mountains in search of arrowheads and other artifacts of the Mohawk, Iroquois and Allegheny tribes that once populated the area developing his interest in the American Indian.

After high school he attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Technical Institute. His art career was put on hold when he joined the Marine Corps in 1965. After his time in the military, he graduated from Santa Anna College with an associate degree in wildlife management.

Currently, he is able to devote his full time to developing his art. His inspiration comes from the beauty of the landscapes and wildlife in the desert and canyons of Arizona and mountains of California, Wyoming and Colorado.

White Porch                      $ 4,500

Greg Burns (b.1947)

22x28 Watercolor

6216 BCROKC

#530006616X7I300069

 

Greg Burns works in ink and watercolor, drawing the intricate detail with a pen first and following with watercolor. Though his style appear realistic, Greg says he interprets what he sees ands produces his own vision of reality.

Born with Arthrogryposis, a muscle and joint disease which affects the use of arms and legs, he draws with the pen in his hand and adds watercolor by holding the brush in his teeth. Burns thrives on challenge in his daily living and in his art. Ink and watercolor are media which cannot be altered onc they are committed to paper. Its' s the decisiveness he loves and the way watercolor makes the picture come alive. 

He has won numerous art competitions: beginning in high school in 1964, continuing at the University of Oklahoma in 1967. He won the Governor's Art Award for the state of Oklahoma in 1978. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Oklahoma University in 1971.

 

Arches National Park               $4,000 SOLD

Greg Burns (b.1947)

Watercolor

#530006NI158

Landscape Arch is the longest of the many natural rock arches in Arches National Park, UT; measuring at 290.1 feet. It is considered the longest natural arch in the world.

Maroon Bells in Winter      $ 14,080 SOLD CMC

Paul Strisik (d. 1998)

Pyles Mountain Lane

24x30 Oil

#50006720X14I15000125

 

Paul Strisik was born in Brooklyn, New York. He later became a resident of Rockport Massachusetts in 1953. There he did landscape panting that brought him national recognition. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City with Frank Vincent DuMond. He died July 22, 1998 at his home in Rockport. 

During his long career, he won 185 awards including 16 gold medals. He was widely respected for his willingness to share his talents with young artists. He taught numerous workshops including at the Scottsdale Artists' School. He wrote several books, his last one being "Capturing the Light in Oils."

Museum Collections include: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Ma; Percy H. Whitney Museum, Fairhope, AL; Parrish Museum of Art, Southampton, NY; Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, MA; Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts, Albuquerque, NM; Colorado Museum of Fine Art, Denver, CO; Hardwood Museum, Taos, NM; Delval Fine Art Consortium, Lansdale, PA; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO

El Cubo Rojo                              $ 6,500

6216 BCROKC

Joe Abbrescia (b.1936-d.2005) 

16x20 Oil        

#521006320X20I21001

 

Born in New York in 1936, Joe Abbrescia exhibited in early childhood a strong capacity to draw and paint. As a teenager, he began attending art classes at the Chicago Art Institute and completed his formal training at Chicago's American Academy of Art under the direction of William Mosby. During his tour in the US Army, he served as an illustrator in Anchorage, Alaska. It was there that he began teaching art. Following that he worked as a commercial artist in a major art studio in Chicago.

In 1965 he founded the Village Art School in Skokie, Illinois. He remained the Director of the School until 1976. During his tenure there he continued to teach, paint and sell his work in the Chicago area. It was there he established a market in the West. Following many painting trips to Montana, he became captivated by the beauty of Glacier National Park. In 1976, he moved to Kalispell, Montana to become a full time painter. A harsh winter sent him to Scottsdale, Arizona for a time, but his beloved Montana called him back. He died in Kalispell on February 17, 2005 after a battle with cancer.  

"Joy" in Brookgreen Gardens            $ 14,400

 Clyde Aspevig (b.1951)

6216 BCROKC

20x24 Oil

#538006480X30I38002

 

Clyde Aspevig was born in Rudyard, Montana. He was raised on a small working wheat farm near the Canadian border. He became mindful of people's reliance upon the land. He left the farm to attend Eastern Montana College in Billings. However, he dropped out to spend the winter in the Bear Paw Mountains before returning for a degree in art education. He taught for one year in Sandy Oregon High School. He decided to go back to Montana with his wife, the artist Carol Guzman, to paint full time. From 1988, the couple have lived in Loveland, Colorado where he remodeled an historic church for their studio.

His awards include the Frederic Remington Award and the Robert M. Lougheed Memorial Award, both awarded from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, now known as the The National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group. He is the first Montana artist since Charles Russell to exhibit at Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City.

 

Basket Beauty                 $ 6,500

6216 BCROKC 

Mike Desatnick (b.1943)

20x16 Oil

#52800320X206I280011

 

Mike Desatnick was born in Hammond, Indiana in 1943. During high school,he was offered a scholarship to the American Academy of Art in Chicago. His family obligations did not allow for this to happen. Later he was drafted for combat in Vietnam. This shaped him to decide that" if I ever get out of here in one piece, I want to so do  something better with my life." Thankfully for the world of art he was discharged. He entered the Academy and in two years won 22 awards. Before graduation he was hired as a commercial artist. Two years later he was offered a position as an instructor at the Academy where he taught for six years. He became quite well known as a Realist/Impressionist painter of Southwestern Indians.  He was twice a finalist in the prestigious John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship Fund. Mike has exhibited at the Allied artists Show in New York and the Indianapolis Hoosier Salon, where he was awarded first place in the figures and portraits division. He currently lives in Durango, Colorado.

Home Grown                       $5,750

6216 BCROKC

Kevin MacPherson (b.1956)

20x16 Oil

#51600320X18I160038

 

Kevin Macpherson was born near Morristown, New Jersey. He became a highly successful landscape painter of Southwest and California subjects. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona as a youngster and studied art at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff., getting a degree in commercial art. He worked in Phoenix aas a free-lance illustrator. Kevin attended the Scottsdale Artist School in the 1980s. In 1987 he was awarded the school's Best and Brightest award. In the late 1980s, he and his wife Wanda moved to Escondito near Taos, New Mexico. He devoted full time to his painting. He has been a past President of the Plein Air Painters of America.

He is well known as a terrific Plein Air painter.

Farmer's Market                        $ 10,800

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Gary Niblett (b. 1943)

18x24 Oil

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Gary Niblett was born and raised in Carlsbad, New Mexico where he grew up with the American West as a part of his daily life. Recognizing his talent, local ranchers paid him to do portraits of their horses. After high school graduation, he attended the Art Center School of Design in California. He then spent eight years in Los Angeles with Hanna-Barbera Animation Studios as a background and animation artist. Deciding to focus on Western art he left commercial art in 1973. He is a primarily an oil painter of western scenes especially Navajo and Pueblo Indians, cowboys on horses in landscape and frontier genre.

He has painted from his travels such as "streets of Warsaw" exhibited here in Farmer's Market. He painted the Women of Golondrinas. His work has been exhibited in Moscow, Taiwan, Beijing and the Royal Watercolor Society in London.

Currently he lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

9x12 Oil

Along the Rimrod                      $ 3,800 SOLD

Jim C. Norton (b. 1953)

9x12 Oil

#519006108X35I190046

 

Jim Norton was born in Price, Utah. He was raised in Lyman, Wyoming where he gained a working knowledge of ranch life. He showed art talent from childhood. Following high school graduation, he spent two years as a Mormon missionary in Australia and then studied art briefly at Brigham Young University. He is known for his paintings of real-life cowboys and their horses. He paints Indians and has a collection of authentic Plains Indian clothing. His skill at depicting the cowboy and his activities earned him membership in 1989 to the prestigious Cowboy Artist of America, dedicated to the painting tradition of Charles Russell and Frederic Remington.

He currently lives in Santaquin, Utah where his studio has a view of mountains 11,000 feet high. He also owns seventeen acres in Wyoming where he paints wildlife and landscape.

Clothes Drying                 $ 700 

Linda Tippetts (b.1944)

10x14 Acrylic

6216 BCROKC

#53506140X5I350126

 

Linda Tippetts was born and raised on an isolated ranch in the Sun River Valley of Montana. She is known for her depictions of the breathtaking scenery of her native state. She has been fascinated by these subjects since childhood and has dedicated her career to painting the mountain peaks and lush vegetation in an Impressionist style, "en plein air." Tippetts began painting after enrolling in a college-accredited correspondence course with the Famous Artist's School of Fine Arts Painting in Westport, Connecticut. She has also studied with Richard Schmid and Del Gish. She travels extensively including Portugal, Alaska, China, Canada and Italy.  Her honors and awards include: Tucson Desert Museum Honorable Mention; Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters Collectors Award; Penguin USA Bookcovers for the Montana author Ivan Doug; Nation Arts for the Parks Grand Prize; Landscape Medallion of Honor and Top 100, National Arts for the Parks; Best Oil, Scottsdale Artists School; Best of Show Colorado Artists Assoc & Evergreen Artist Association.

Captain Clark                           $ 3,100 SOLD

Don Prechtel (b. 1936)

16x12 Quick Draw Oil

#513006192X16NI3000145

 

Don Prechtel had an interest in art since childhood. He attended a commercial art school. He didn't get serious about art until the late 1960s. He hung a painting at a gun show. A gentleman came by and bought it - a young lawyer with not much money. One day he went to see him and asked the attorney if he could find someone who could pay him a salary so he could paint. The young philanthropic attorney was John E. Jaqua, who helped form sportswear giant Nike.  Jaqua paid him a salary for three years so that he could become a professional working artist. By the early 1970s Prechtel became a founding member of the Northest Rendezvous Group of Artists and his career was taking off.  This piece was painted during the Northwest Rendezvous in Helena, Montana along with the painting below called "Black Hatted Woman". Prechtel considers himself a general historical painter, though he also paints Civil War subjects and cops to his obsession with the West. His influencers were artists from the 1930s and '40s like john Clymer and Norman Rockwell, as well as earlier illustrator Howard Pyle. He has paintings in the collections of: Virginia Military Institute; Military Intelligence Museum, Ft. Huachuca, AZ; Hamilton Collection, Museum of Native American Cultures, Western Art Association, Notre Dame Alumni Association building, Government House, Dublin, Ireland; Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific, Stockton, Ca; University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History. His awards include: John Scott People's Choice Award, Jurors Award, Purchase award, Merit Award, Heritage Award in 2001 and 2004, Founders Award National Arts for the Parks 2003.

 

 

                                         

Black Hatted Woman "Captain Clark Woman"      $ 3,200

Don Prechtel (b. 1936)

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16x12 Quick Draw Oil

#514006192X16I140049

Tea and Tolstoy                         $ 16,600 

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W. Steve Seltzer (b.1955)

30x36 Oil

#5580061080X15I580052

 

W. Steve Seltzer is an artist and art authenticator. His grandfather was the great artist, O.C. Seltzer, who was a close friend to Charles Russell. W. Steve is well known due to his lawsuit against the Morton Salt company heir, Steve Morton, and his law firm, Gibson Dunn and Crutcher. In 2000 Morton asked Seltzer to authenticate a painting believed to have been painted by Charles M. Russell. It was believed to be valued at $650,000. Seltzer, however, was certain that the painting was actually painted by his own grandfather, O. C. Seltzer, a close friend of Russell's. Other experts were brought in and all agreed that the painting was by O.C. Morton immediately began to threaten and attempt to coerce Seltzer to change his opinion. When Seltzer refused Morton filed suit. The case was lost upon Summary Judgment. Seltzer immediately filed his own lawsuit against Morton and his firm, citing malicious prosecution and abuse of process. Seltzer was awarded $21 million, which was later reduced to $11 million. This case and its outcome have had far reaching implications for both artists and art authenticators. He shows every year in March at the C.M. Russell Art Auction in Great Falls, Montana where Seltzer lives.

 

Still Life in Paris                            $1,500 SOLD

Nellie Shepherd (b.1877 d.1920)

15x20 Oil

#59006300X5NI146

 

Nellie Ellen Shepherd is one of Oklahoma's earliest professional women artists. She was born in Thayer, Kansas, on April 30th, 1877. Her parents, George T. and Martha Ellen Shepherd brought their six daughters and two sons to a homestead near Oklahoma City in the Land Run of 1889. After graduating from high school, Shepherd attended the Academy of Art in Cincinnati. She then studied for three years in France, where her portrait of her sister Lottie was selected for an exhibit at the  1910 Paris Grand Salon. It won Honorable Mention. In the autumn of 1917 she became head of the art department in the Oklahoma college for Women, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. She also taught privately. In 1918 she was elected president of the Oklahoma Art Association. Plagued by ill health, she died in Tucson, Az of tuberculosis on July 18, 1920. An impressionist, Nellie Shepherd worked primarily in oils and preferred portraiture. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the Santa Fe Railway Collection, Schaumberg, Illinois hold in their archives  paintings by Shepherd. Most of the Shepherd homestead, located around Northwest Twenty-third Street in Oklahoma City was sold to make way for Shepherd Mall and for a residential area; Shepherd Historic District. Her sister, Leona, was also a painter of some renown.

Shipwreck                                     $ 1,200 SOLD

Cletus Smith

26x36 Watercolor

#59506936X1I950114

 

Cletus Smith is a native Oklahoman with an art degree from Oklahoma City University. He has been a graphic designer, illustrator, industrial designer and a professional artist.  Smith taught painting at the University of Central Oklahoma for 18 years. He currently teaches private classes at his Oklahoma City art studio. He regularly conducts lecture demonstrations, workshops and has judged numerous art shows throughout the southwest. Numerous awards and recognitions have been given to Smith for his paintings and his work as an instruction. His work is also included in the State of Oklahoma Art Collection. He is represented by galleries in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. He now splits his time between his home studio in Oklahoma and his residence in Taos, NM.

Winter's Opulence                              $65,000 

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Curt Walters (b.1950)

30x48 Oil

#53300061440X42I3200064

 

Curt Walters was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1950. At the age of 15, Walters sold his first piece. Four years later, the fledgling young artist visited the Grand Canyon for the first time. So began a lifelong love affair with the canyon. Since then he has focused much of his time and energies on the Grand Canyon not only as an artist, but as a lover of this massive gorge. In the early '90s, the growing amount of air pollution over the canyon began to concern him. In 2002 the Grand Canyon Foundation came to him for his help impressed by his effort with the Trust to preserver the wildlife, archeological and other historic structures through his art dedicated to the Grand Canyon. He currently resides in Sedona, Az and is a plein-aire impressionist painter known for his depictions of the Grand Canyon. Though his body of work is largely comprised of the Southwestern vista, he enjoys painting land and cityscapes from all over the world. Collections holding work by Curt include the Forbes Magazine Galleries of New York and California, The Maytag Foundation, astronaut Frank Borman, the Pulliam Trust of Phoenix, AZ and San Juan College iin Farmington, New Mexico.

Lemon Hill                                $98,000 

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Morgan Weistling (b.1964)

40x30 Oil

#51800061200X40I1800064

 

Morgan Weistling was raised in Southern California. He learned to draw from his father and was strongly encouraged by his mother. He is known for realistic figurative paintings of adults and children in antique settings. For fourteen years he worked as an illustrator of movie posters, but was encouraged by his friend Dan Gerhartz (see his works above) to make a living creating fine art. His awards include: 2000 Patrons Choice award in the "Masters of the American West Show" at the Autry Museum; 2001 Prix de West award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City; 2001 Nona Jean Hulsey Buyer's Choice Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Prix de west show where $3 million+ dollars are sold there in one evening every June; 2002 Trustees Purchase Award from the Autry; 2007 Patron's choice Award and the Artist's Choice Award from the Autry National Heritage Museum; 2008 Patron's Choice Award and the Artist's Choice Award from the Autry National Heritage Museum show "Masters of the American West"; 2008 Prix de West Purchase Award at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City; 2010 Patron's Choice Award from the Autry National Heritage Museum show "Masters of the American West"; 2011 Patron's Choice Award from the Autry National Heritage Museum show "Masters of the American West"; and the 2011 Collector's Choice award at the Coeur D'Alene Art Auction.

The Back                             $ 4,500 SOLD

March in Montana 2021 #15

William Whitaker (b.1943 d.2018)

15x11 Oil

#516006165X27I160068

 

William Whitaker was raised as the only son of an artist father. He grew up in the special world of a working artist. He had access to the finest art materials and was painting in watercolor and oil at the age of six. His fondest early memories are of the sights, sounds and smells of the art studio. He loved to paint from life in an old-fashioned studio since 1965 when he became a professional artist. No matter what direction his art took him, he always came back to the model in the studio. The form bathed in the beautiful quiet cool light coming down from a his north window set the scene. He referred to this king of seeing and painting as the "Old Testament" of art and felt there was enough magic to engage him there for the rest of his life. He was quite the studier of other people's work and certainly of his own. This painting and the two following come from the same collection. The owner states that Whitaker was invited to the owner's home for a large party while the Prix de West show was going on in Oklahoma City. People kept asking where's Bill? The hostess searched in the master bedroom area where these 3 paintings were hanging. When she found Bill he had his face up to one of the paintings perusing each stroke of his brush. This prolific painter left us too soon.

Nude                                    $ 5,800 SOLD

March in Montana 2021 #685

William Whitaker (b.1943 d.2018)

18x12 Oil

#526006216X27I160066

Standing Woman       $ 5,800 SOLD

March in Montana 2021 #684

William Whitaker (b.1943 d.2018)

18x12 Oil

#516006216X27I160067

Boys Hockey           $ 2,500 

G. Larachelle 

11x14  Oil

6216 BCROKC

#512506154X8I125035