Billy the Kid ~ Worth More Dead or Alive ~ Photo brings $2.3M
Sunday, June 26th, 2011A 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 […]
Wanted To Buy: Western Art and Indian Beadwork
Friday, April 22nd, 2011Raunig 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 […]
CU Art Museum shows 2 major Charles Partridge Adams Paintings
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011Highlights 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 […]
Early Colorado Artists ~ A Rich Art History ~ 1850-1950
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010Colorado is not outdone by any other western state insofar as it’s rich art history and dozens of fine artists that painted and documented the early frontier culture and captured on canvas the incredible mountain vista’s that exist in this beautiful state. Charles Partridge Adams, Charles Craig, Gerard Curtis Delano, Birger Sandzen, Raphael Lillywhite, William Henry Bancroft, […]
The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction Still Does $8.9 Million!!
Thursday, July 29th, 2010In spite of the economic conditions facing our country, folks who collect American and western art still seek fine paintings to surround themselves with. While institutions and major collectors are not as eager to place high end works on the market as they were a few years ago, the partners at the Coeur d’Alene Art […]
8/09 ~ Montana’s Rich Art Heritage
Friday, August 7th, 20098/7/09 ~ I am anxious for some feedback on this topic, but I get the impression Montanans may not be fully aware of the astounding art heritage that documents it’s happenings and history. I grew up in Montana and developed a strong interest in the frontier and historic happenings in Montana and the west in […]