Recent Items From The Blog
- Billy the Kid ~ Worth More Dead or Alive ~ Photo brings $2.3M
A tiny little dark peice of tin the size of a business card, and if you looked real close at a slight angle, you could make out an old vintage charachter holding a rifle believed to be the only real photograph of Billy the Kid. I attended the auction last evening and witnessed the spectacle of this little [...]
- Raunig Art Enterprises Acquires Major Art Collection: The Edgar S. Paxson Family Estate
The Ray (Grandson of Edgar) and Shirley Paxson home in Butte, Montana was filled with hundreds of pieces of original art and prints, vintage photographs, books, personal belongings including a buckskin suit, a presentation silver walking stick, a tremendous Plains Indian tomahawk, an antique Winchester rifle with buckskin rifle case, art works by other noted artists, and many more [...]
- Wanted To Buy: Western Art and Indian Beadwork
Raunig Art Enterprises seeks to discreetly purchase western art and Indian beadwork of the late 19th and early 20th century as well as contemporary western art by noted living artists. Especially interested in artists from Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. Cowboy, Indian/Native American, western landscapes, wildlife or historic frontier paintings are highly desired to [...]
- CU Art Museum shows 2 major Charles Partridge Adams Paintings
Highlights of the Collection: Charles Partridge Adams Paintings The CU Art Museum presents two paintings by the noted Colorado landscape painter Charles Partridge Adams, including a never-before-shown, large-scale painting of Rocky Mountain scenery near Estes Park, titled Sunrise on the Mountains, circa 1920, recently conserved by the CU Art Museum, and gifted to the museum’s [...]
- William “Bill” Gollings Statue Unveiled in Cheyenne
Wyoming sculptor Jerry Palen unveiled a 7-foot-tall statue of cowboy artist William “Bill” Gollings. By Becky Orr CHEYENNE — Brothers Chase and John Farrell climbed onto the statue’s sandstone base after the unveiling ceremony. “I like the spurs,” said John, 7, as he pointed to the back of one of the cowboy’s boots. The Savannah, [...]
