2022-08-01 Western Art Collector

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Scottsdale Art Auction April 14th & 15th, 2023 NOW ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS Mark Maggiori Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000 Sold For: $64,350 Logan Hagege Estimate: $60,000 - 80,000 Sold For: $187,200 Robert Griffing Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000 Kyle Polzin Sold For: $163,800 Estimate: $45,000 - 65,000 Sold For: $257,400 BRINGING THE MOST VALUE FOR THE TOP LIVING WESTERN ARTISTS! 2022 AUCTION REALIZED NEARLY $15 MILLION, WITH 99% OF ALL LOTS SOLD. SETTING 24 NEW AUCTION RECORDS, NOW HOLDING 240. NOW ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS FOR OUR APRIL 14-15, 2023 AUCTION. For more information please call (480) 945-0225 or visit www.scottsdaleartauction.com SA S COT TS D A L E ART AUCTION 7176 MAIN STREET • SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA 85251 • 480 945-0225 • WWW.SCOTTSDALEARTAUCTION.COM

Forever West ơƖƝƥżơƏƚƓ Vermilion Stronghold Glenn Dean 30\" x 30\" Oil Featuring Artists Bill Anton, Russell Case, Glenn Dean, Jeremy Lipking, & Howard Post reception: Friday, August 12th • 5-7 pm on view: August 1oth - 14th 2022 For more information please call 505.986.9833. Santa Fe • Scottsdale 225 Canyon Road • Santa Fe, NM 87501 • 505.986.9833 7178 Main Street • Scottsdale, AZ manitougalleries.com • legacygallery.com





Letter from the Publishers AUGUST 2022 Monthly PUBLISHER Adolfo Castillo Lots to See and Do EDITORIAL/CREATIVE [email protected] PUBLISHER Wendie Martin ADVERTISING/ART COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [email protected] FOUNDER Vincent W. Miller Welcome to the August issue of Western Art Collector! This month we EDITORIAL are supporting our sister publication, Native American Art magazine, EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Clawson the official magazine for SWAIA’s Santa Fe Indian Market. The market is [email protected] celebrating its 100th year and team Western Art Collector will be there EDITOR Sarah Gianelli August 20 and 21 to represent and participate in the festivities. There will ASSISTANT EDITOR Alyssa M. Tidwell be 800-plus Native American artist booths in the Santa Fe Get Social! ASSISTANT EDITOR Chelsea Koressel Plaza that expands throughout the city during this great SANTA FE EDITOR John O’Hern celebration of art. Please see our coverage of the event EDITORIAL & EMAIL Casey Woollard beginning on Page 118. TRAFFIC COORDINATOR [email protected] This issue of Western Art Collector also spotlights the western ADVERTISING (866) 619-0841 C.M. Russell Museum’s annual auction, The Russell, which art collector SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Lisa Redwine runs from August 18 to 21 in Great Falls, Montana, the [email protected] same weekend as the Santa Fe Indian Market. Our feature, SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Anita Weldon Modest Yet Masterful, starting on Page 50, provides insight WesternArt into Charles M. Russell as we look at some of his smaller, Collector [email protected] but still breathtaking, works. All of these coinciding events SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Heather K. Raskin make it very difficult for collectors to choose what to do [email protected] that third weekend in August! @artmags SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Constance Warriner Our suggestion is to peruse and shop early. 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Letter from the Editor Old and New Y ou just can’t ever escape Charlie Russell. The cowboy artist influenced almost everything in Western art. The artists idolize him, the curators fill their walls with his work and collectors scramble for a Russell when it hits the market, which is why his pieces so regularly sell for six and seven figures. We’ve been recording episodes for our American Art Collective podcast and Russell comes up so frequently we’ve come to refer to him as a “friend of the podcast.” And he died 95 years ago! Russell is also the central figure of the C.M. Russell Museum and its annual event The Russell, which is previewed in this issue. The auction portion of the weekend usually gets some terrific works by Russell, and this year is no exception. As an added bonus to the event, the museum often hosts a Russell-themed exhibition. This year they’re showing Modest Yet Masterful, which examines Russell’s smaller-sized works. They’re also presenting a Winold Reiss exhibition that is stellar! So if you read the magazine you’re familiar with Charlie Russell, and also artists like Reiss, Frederic Remington, Joseph Henry Sharp, Frank Tenney Johnson and many other historic Western artists. But that’s only half the story. Every issue of Western Art Collector is also devoted to contemporary Western painters and sculptors. These are artists living today who are out there creating from their studios and continuing the traditions that Russell and others started. In this issue alone, we have Amy Lay, Sean Michael Chavez, Howard Post, Jeremy Winborg, Ron Rencher, Mateo Romero, Oreland Joe, Tom Browning and many others. Not only do we feature these artists’ works, we also talk to them about their studios, find out what is inspiring them and dig into their art philosophies. Western Art Collector is about the old and new, and everything in between. Michael Clawson Executive Editor [email protected] Charles M. Russell 6

LONE STAR ART AUCTION OCTOBER 28-29, 2022 • DALLAS, TEXAS NOW ACCEPTING CONSIGNMENTS for more information, visit: www.lsartauction.com, or call: 469.608.7600 Presented By: Great American West and Phil Berkebile, Jr. 8333 DOUGLAS AVENUE, SUITE 360 • DALLAS, TX 75225 • 469.608.7600 • WWW.LSARTAUCTION.COM