Ina Agnes Annett (1901 - 1990)
Rock Candy Mountain, Utah, 1931
watercolor
9 x 13 inches
Retail Price $2,000
Sale Price $1,250
Influenced by her association with Georgia O’Keefe, Ina Annett (Annette) (1901 – 1990) embraced modernism in her portrayals of the American Southwest. She is listed in many publications, including Women Artists of the American West. In this depiction of the southern Utah geological feature made famous by Wallace Stegner’s autobiographical novel Big Rock Candy Mountain, Annett employs semi-abstraction and deft brushwork to create a flowing, almost sinuous portrayal.
Wulf Barsch (1943 - )
untitled, 1986
lithograph
22 x 20 inches
Retail Price $400
Sale Price $250
Gustave Baumann (1881 - 1971)
Hopi Katzinas, 1925
color woodblock print, 38/120, First Printing
12.25 x 13.25 inches
signed in pencil and titled with artist's hand in heart ink stamp
Retail Price $19,500
Holiday Sale Price $18,500
The first woodcut representing Baumann's budding doll collection was Strangers from Hopi Land created around 1920. Judging from the number of times he submitted it for exhibition, he was proud of this print. A more ambitious piece, Hopi Katzina suggests how extensive the artist's collection of dolls had become by about 1925, and how the artist delighted in their every detail. The composition is simple and uncluttered, so as not to detract from the dolls' splendid ornamentation. The technical complexity of this print is outstanding, with its myriad colors and intricate designs. This woodcut precisely reproduces the artist's oil painting, now at the Museum of New Mexico, which is titled on the canvas "Pasatiempo." Source: Guatave Baumann, Nearer to Art
Conrad Buff (1886 - 1975)
Zion, 1931
lithograph
12.50 x 17.25 inches
Retail Price $5,000
Holiday Sale Price $4,250
Conrad Buff (1886 - 1975)
Deep Canyon, undated
27 x 26 inches
Oil and canvas
Signed lower center
SOLD
Conrad Buff (1886 - 1975)
Utah, undated
11 x 15 inches
Oil on Canvas
Signed and dated lower right
Retail Price $4,000
Holiday Sale Price $2,500
In Utah, Buff uses his broad, pointillist-style technique to suggest the contours of the Virgin River coursing through Zion National Park. His dynamic and bold use of alternating colors and broad, energetic brush strokes creates a vivid image of the Three Sisters formation in Zion.
John Fabian Carlson (1874 - 1945)
Brookside Quiet
25 x 30 inches
oil on canvas
signed lower right
Retail Price $20,000
Holiday Sale Price $12,500
John Fabian Carlson is widely recognized as a prominent member of the Pennsylvania impressionist painters. He has particular importance to Utahns as an influential instructor to LeConte Stewart at the Arts Students League in Woodstock, New York in 1913 and 1914 There, Carlson taught tonalist philosophies of impressionism along with Birge Harrison. Brookside Quiet exemplifies Carlson’s quiet, contemplative winter scenes for which he is justly famous.
G. Russell Case (1966 - )
untitled (red rock landscape with cattle)
Watercolor
22 x 29.50 inches
Retail Price $5,000
Holiday Sale Price $2,500
Helen Lee Deffebach (1928 - 2005)
Thoughts of Cario #2, 1999
acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Retail Price $5,000
Holiday Sale Price $4,000
A 1960 review in The Village Voice praised the works in Lee Deffebach's one-woman show, saying that "The best thing happening on 10th Street now is Lee Deffebach's work at Camino. The colors are lyric, jazzy, loud. It's a deep breath of fresth air after the conscious naivete, the Oh-shucks earnestness filling most of the galleries." Deffebach, trained at the University of Utah, joined Alice Neel, Elaine deKooning, and others in the vibrant 10th Street gallery community that thrived in the late 1950s and early 60s.
Helen "Lee" Deffebach 1928 - 2005
Stripe Series, 1980
acrylic on canvas
42 x 52 inches
signed and dated bottom right
Retail Price $15,000
Holiday Sale Price $7,500
Helen "Lee" Deffebach (1928 - 2005)
Untitled, 1965
Collage
18 x 23 inches
Retail Price $1,500
Holiday Sale Price $800
The Volkswagen bug and bus were not only ubiquitous in American marketing but they are now iconic symbols of the 1960s. Deffebach staggers the vehicles to create the illusion of space in the composition but she leaves her own mark by incorporating oil paint. Her swatches of color are limited but serve to give the work balance and focus the viewer’s eye on the vehicles.
Deffebach’s collages coincide with the Pop art work of Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol, among others. Springing to life just as the robust economy of the 1950s intersected with the burgeoning consumer culture of the 1960s, Pop art rejected the masculine work of the Abstract Expressionists, and instead included marketing schemes and advertisements. Unlike its process-driven predecessor, Pop art could be made quickly and it shadowed America’s demand for novelty and convenience.
Helen "Lee" Deffebach (1928 - 2005)
Odd-Lot System, 1964
27.75 x 32.5 inches
Newsprint, ink on paper
Signed upper center
Retail Price $ 1,500
Holiday Sale Price $800
Odd-lot System echos national trends in mixed-media works, combining seemingly disprate elements of newsprint and line to creat vibrant composition rooted in a consciousness of time.
George Dibble (1904 - 1992)
Home Port
Watercolor
22 x 30 inches (unframed)
sighed lower right
Retail Price $1,800
Holiday Sale Price $850
George Dibble (1904 - 1992)
WP Oiler
Watercolor
30 x 22 inches
Signed lower right
Retail Price $1,800
Holiday Sale Price $800
George Dibble (1904 - 1992)
Liberty Park Series #1
Watercolor
28.50 x 31 inches
SOLD
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946)
Sod Roofed House
Skull Springs Ore., Aug 1901
pencil on paper
8 x 11.25 inches
SOLD
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946)
untitled (cowboy on horseback with mountains in distance)
Pen and ink
4 7/8 x 7 inches
Retail Price $7,000
Holiday Sale Price $3,000
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946)
untitled (Indian on horseback against angular mesas)
pencil on paper
3 x 3 inches
Retail Price $5,000
Holiday Sale Price $3,000
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946)
untitled (Cowboy on horse)
Pen and ink
2 1/8 x 3 11/16 inches
Retail Price $5,000
Retail Sale Price $2,500
LaVerne Erickson Krause (1924 - 1987)
Moving Fog on Morning Sea
48 x 72 inches
oil on board
SOLD
LaVerne Krause (1924-1987) was a member of the faculty of the University of Oregon Department of Fine and Applied Arts from 1966 to 1986. The department is now called the Department of Art. Krause has been recognized for her outstanding contributions as an educator, studio artist, and arts activist. As a teacher, she developed an excellent printmaking program at the UO, along with colleague Ken Paul, that has attracted students from throughout the world. Krause received her bachelor’s degree in art from the University of Oregon in 1946 and studied with Jack Wilkinson.
Krause had a pronounced influence upon a great many people, organizations, and institutions on local, regional, and national levels. She served as national president of the then-new Artists Equity organization and was a staunch advocate of younger, nascent artists, many of whom had been her students. The Smithsonian Institution included her in its “Archives of American Art”. She was honored as a recipient of the 1980 Governor’s Arts Award for excellence and service to the arts in Oregon and as a recipient of the University of Oregon Distinguished Service Award. Her works are included in important private and public collections and her numerous awards, exhibitions, and contributions make her one of the most honored of the Pacific Northwest artists.
Source: University of Oregon
Albert Looking Elk (1999 - 1940)
untitled (Taos pueblo snow scene)
oil on board
7 x 10 inches
signed lower right
Retail Price $2,000
Holiday Sale Price $1,500
Layne Meacham (1948 - )
Ambivilant Crane
Oil on board
32 x 49 inches
Retail Price $ 2,000
Holiday Sale Price $1,750
Cornelius Salisbury (1882 - 1970)
untitled (mountain with haystacks), 1952
Oil on board
10.50 x 13 inches
SOLD
Cornelius Salisbury (1882 - 1970)
Cottonwoods, Utah, 1835
Oil on board
16 x 12 inches
SOLD
Cornelius Salisbury (1882 - 1970)
Silver Lake, Brighton Utah, 1937
Oil on board
13 x 18 inches
Retail Price $1,000
Holiday Sale Price $800
Rose Howard Salisbury (1887 - 1975)
June Blooms
Oil on board
12.50 x 18 inches
SOLD
Fritz Scholder (1937 - 2005)
Snake Dancer, 1979
color lithograph, 81/150
30 x 22 inches
Retail Price $4,800
Holiday Sale Price $3,000
One of the most celebrated Native American artists, Scholder created powerful images that defied stereotypes and had significant aesthetic appeal. Scholder says "...it is my intention not only to set up graphically a new visual experience for the viewer, but also to make a statement in regard to the society and land in which we, the descendants of the American Indian, live. I am well aware that my paintings are not literal, for to me some ideas require unique statements. I try to capture not only the physical, but the inner and even spiritual."
Frank Anthony (Tony) Smith (1939 -
Scarecrow, 1983
43 x 55 inches
acrylic on canvas
Retail Price $10,000
Holiday Sale Price $4,800
One art curator wrote that, "Tony Smith’s paintings are works in motion…abundant in visual and psychological intrigue…imbued with magic, possibility, and surprise.” A professor at the U of U from 1966 - 2001, uses illusionism, light, and color to create magical moments. Smith remarked that, “What is important to me is magic, literal magic, a sense that the world is changeable, surprising, that it’s more than you think."
V. Douglas Snow (1927 - 2009)
Cove Form I, April 1994
Watercolor
16 x 12 inches (site)
Retail Price $ 2,500
Holiday Sale Price $2,000
V. Douglas Snow (1927 - 2009)
Cockscomb, March 1986
Watercolor
9 x 12 inches (image)
Retail Price $ 2,500
Holiday Sale Price $2,000
LeConte Stewart (1891 - 1990)
West Ogden, January 1929
pencil drawing
8 x 11 inches
Retail Price $4,000
Holiday Sale Price $2,500
James Everett Stuart (1852 - 1941)
The Grand Geyser - Upper Geyser Basin Yellowstone, July 1885
18 1/4 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Retail Price $9,000
Holiday Sale Price $ 7,500
Stuart first traveled to Yellowstone in 1885, and camped for several weeks, supplying himself with fish for food, climbing steep cliffs including Electric Peak, and filling his sketchbook for studio paintings. He had studied art with Virgil Williams, Raymond Yelland, Thomas Hill, and William Keith at the San Francisco School of Design, and hungry to paint the untrammeled West, set out with his paints, easel and tent, from which he sold his paintings near tourist sites in Yellowstone. In this scene, Stuart captures the power, drama, and scale of the great curiosity that were Yellowstone’s geysers.
James Everett Stuart (1852 - 1941)
Looking Across the Top of Shoshone Falls, Idaho, June 21, 1885
18 x 30 inches
oil on canvas
Signed "J.E. Stuart" lower left, dated, titleds and numbered
Retail Price $9,000
Holiday Sale Price $7,500
One month prior to painting his energetic scene of geysers in Yellowstone, Stuart visited Shoshone Falls near Boise, Idaho. He deftly created a sense of motion, grandeur, and drama, depicting the mist from the falls rising hundreds of feet in the air. It was one of the many wonders that easterners were anxious to learn about through the art of painters like Stuart. There is a wonderful immediacy and spontaneity to this painting.
Mahonri Macintosh Young (1877 - 1957)
Rolling His Own
bronze
13 x 3.75 x 3 inches
Retail Price $18,000
Holiday Sale Price $9,000
Umetaro Azechi (1902 - 1999)
Recollections of Tokyo - Sengaku Temple, 1945
Woodblock Print
7.75 x 10.35 inches
Retail Price $600
Holiday Sale Price $500
Description
From the series "Tokyo Kaiko Zue" (Recollection of Tokyo), with all together 15 designs by various famous Sosaku Hanga artists. This image depicts Sengaku-ji Temple, the graveyard of the 47 Ronin.
Signature
Artist's seal (Ume)
Hasui Kawase
Amagasaki, 1940
Woodblock Print
Retail Price $750
Sale Price $650
Evening scene at Amagasaki in Daimotsu Bay.
Biography
Hasui Kawase is one of the best known artists of the "Shin Hanga" (new prints) movement. His prints, landscapes and townviews, were created in traditional Japanese style with Western elements. Hasui had a very close cooperation with the publisher Watanabe. In the fires following the devastating earthquake in 1923, over a hundred blocks produced so far, were destroyed. In 1956, one year before his death, the artist was declared a Living National Treasure.
SIGNATURE
Signed Hasui, artist seal, SUI, publisher Watanab
