Billy the Kid ~ Worth More Dead or Alive ~ Photo brings $2.3M

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

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 […]

Edgar S. Paxson ~ Wanted to Buy

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

I am an avid collector of works by the famed Montana artist Edgar S. Paxson. Paxson was a contemporary of C.M. Russell and was a major force in documenting the frontier history of Montana as well as the life and culture of Native American Indians. If you have a work by E.S. Paxson you would […]

J.K. Ralston ~ Artist ~ Yet Another Montana Gem!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

James Kenneth Ralston was born in 1896 in Choteau, Montana where his father was a cattle rancher and foreman on ranches in Choteau, Helena and near the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in eastern Montana. In his early 20’s, Ralston attended the Chicago Art Institute and received formal art training on two occasions.   After marrying and moving […]

William Standing ~ Montana Legend in Art

Monday, November 9th, 2009

William Standing (1904-1951) has become yet another highly sought after artist hailing from the great state of Montana. Standing was a versatile artist who worked in many genres including cartoon drawings for post cards and calenders, roughly composed oil sketches, portrait work, highly refined and well executed oils of western scenes. His work has been […]