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Front Cover 79 Roy Andersen b. 1930 High Plains Thunder (detail) Oil on canvas 40 x 48 inches Signed lower right/CA Estimate: $50,000 - 75,000

Opposite 75 Frank McCarthy 1924-2002 The Coming Storm Oil on board 18 x 24 inches Signed lower right/CA and dated 1979; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $18,000 - 24,000

Back Cover 50 G. Harvey b. 1933 Through Golden Aspens Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches Signed lower left and dated 1987; Signed, titled and dated verso Estimate: $50,000 - 75,000

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Michael Frost J. N. Bartfield Galleries 30 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 (212) 245-8890 michael@scottsdaleartauction.com

Jack A. Morris, Jr. Morris & Whiteside Galleries 220 Cordillo Parkway Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 (843) 842-4433 jack@scottsdaleartauction.com

Brad Richardson The Legacy Gallery 7178 Main Street Scottsdale, AZ 85251 (480) 945-1113 brad@scottsdaleartauction.com

Jason Brooks, Auctioneer Online Bidding Arrangements can be made through www.scottsdaleartauction.com

Telephone Bidding Arrangements must be made no later than 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 3.

Subject to availability.

Absentee Bidding Arrangements must be made no later than 5:00 pm on Friday, April 4.

Please call (480) 945-0225 or register online at www.scottsdaleartauction.com

Auction results will be available online Monday, April 14 at www.scottsdaleartauction.com

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April 5 First Session: Lots 1–120 8:30am–9:30am.................................................................................................Registration & Preview 9:30am .............................................................................................................

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Auction The art illustrated in this catalogue will be offered for sale on April 5, 2014 by Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC on premises at 7176 Main Street, Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Credit cards will not be accepted for purchases in excess of $10,000 on the total amount purchased at the sale.

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8. Some items of Property may be offered subject to a “reserve” or confidential minimum price below which the item will not be sold. In such instances, Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC may implement the reserve by bidding through the Auctioneer on behalf of the Consignor. In no event shall the reserve exceed the low estimate in the catalogue.

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11. Biding on any item indicates your acceptance of these terms and all other terms announced at the time of sale whether bidding in person, by phone, by Internet, by absentee bid, or through a representative.

12. In most instances, sculpture measurements do not include base. In measurements for two dimensional art, height precedes width and does not include frame.

13. Bidding increments will normally follow the pattern below but may vary at the sole discretion of the Auctioneer.

Estimate Increment Under 2,000............................. 100 2,000–5,000 ............................. 250 5,000–10,000............................ 500 10,000–20,000....................... 1,000

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1 Fred Fellows b. 1934 Set of two bronzes Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500

Friendly Skies Bronze, cast number 15/100 13 ½ inches high Signed/CA

2 Bill Nebeker b. 1942 Saddles and Chaps Bronze, cast number 14/50 10 inches high Signed/CA and dated 1991 Estimate: $1,500 - 2,000

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A Wing and a Prayer Bronze, cast number 18/100 12 inches high Signed/CA

3 Herb Mignery b. 1937 The Mayor of Second Street Bronze, cast number 3/20 25 inches high Signed/CA and dated 1992 Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500

4 Gary Niblett b. 1943 Camp Chores Oil on board 12 x 19 ½ inches Signed lower left/CA; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000 Exhibitions: Cowboy Artists of America,

Phoenix Art Museum, October 20

- November 19, 1995

5 Fred Fellows b. 1934 Life in the Fast Lane, Changing of the West Bronze, cast number 12/80 8 inches high, 31 inches wide Signed/CA Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

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6 Steven Lang b. 1960 In Black Hills Country Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right, OPA Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

7 James Earle Fraser 1876-1953 Set of four bronzes Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000

Daniel Boone Bronze, cast number 1 31 ½ inches high Signed, inscribed Syracuse University and dated 1969

Meriwether Lewis Bronze, cast number 1 31 ½ inches high Signed, inscribed Syracuse University and dated 1969

William Clark Bronze, cast number 1 30 ½ inches high Signed, inscribed Syracuse University and dated 1969

John James Audubon Bronze, cast number 1 30 ½ inches high Signed, inscribed Syracuse University and dated 1969

Exhibitions: “James Earle Fraser: American Sculptor,” Kennedy Galleries, NY. June 2nd to July 3rd, 1969, pp. 44-45,

illustrated in the catalogue.

“James Earle Fraser: The American Heritage in Sculpture,” Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, OK, January 12 - April 21, 1985, p 54, illustrated in the catalogue.

“Young James Earle Fraser looked out the window of the railroad car he called home at the vanishing world of the Sioux and the buffalo.

James’ father, an engineer, was overseeing the laying of new track across the Dakotas…” —it reads like the opening of a children’s adventure story. But it’s a true life adventure that gave rise to a storybook career as one of America’s foremost sculptors. Fraser’s talent led him first to Chicago and then to Paris. At 22, Fraser moved to New York, finding instant success and earning the U.S. Mint commission for the Indian Head/Buffalo nickel. In 1915, Fraser modeled The End of the Trail, which has become the most iconic Native American image. The four bronzes offered here—Daniel Boone, John James Audubon, William Clark, Meriwether Lewis—were the first to be cast under the auspices of the Fraser family at Syracuse University. Heroic versions of these works stand in niches over the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

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8 R.S. Riddick b. 1952 Lakota Lullaby Charcoal 13 x 13 inches Signed lower right/CA; Signed and dated 2006 verso Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500

9 Joe Abbrescia 1935-2005 A Break in the Weather Oil on board 40 x 30 inches Signed lower right; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000 Joe Abbrescia seemed to be born to paint and to teach others to paint. After studying at two of Chicago’s prestigious art schools, he joined the army, spending his tour in Anchorage teaching illustration.

Abbrescia founded the Village Art School in Skokie, Illinois, where he taught for many years. At the same time, he fell in love with the American West, especially Glacier Park, and in 1976, he moved to Kalispell, Montana. Though he painted a wide variety of subjects, Abbrescia favored moody peaks and mountain men, artfully combined in A Break in the Weather.

10 Lee Brubaker b. 1933 Savage Beauty of the Sioux Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right and dated 79 Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

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11 Frank Hagel b. 1933 Blackfeet Scouting the Lewis Party - 1806 Oil on board 26 x 32 Âź inches Signed lower left and dated 2005 Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

12 Michael Coleman b. 1946 Indian Encampment at Dusk Oil on board 23 x 28 ž inches Signed lower left Estimate: $9,000 - 12,000

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13 Gary Niblett b. 1943 Dream of Riches Oil on canvas 22 x 28 inches Signed lower right/CA and dated 78 Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

14 Russ Vickers 1923-1997 Set of two paintings Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000 When a Wagon Fell Behind Oil on board 4 x 12 inches Signed lower right and dated 80; Signed, titled and dated verso

Plans for the Attack Oil on board 4 x 12 inches Signed lower right and dated 80; Signed, titled and dated verso

Largely self-taught, Russ Vickers began his career as a commercial illustrator in the aerospace industry in Los Angeles. In 1970, his paintings were featured over the opening and closing credits in the John Wayne film Chisum and he began showing his work in Sedona. Three years later, Vickers made a permanent move to Arizona where he embarked on a successful career as an easel painter of Western action subjects.

15 Gary Niblett b. 1943 Below Acoma Oil on board 22 x 28 inches Signed lower right and dated 73; Titled verso Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

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16 Walt Gonske b. 1942 Spring Oil on canvas 22 x 30 inches Signed lower right/NAWA Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

17 Walt Gonske b. 1942 Romeroville, NM Oil on canvas 16 x 24 inches Signed lower left; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $1,500 - 2,000

18 Walt Gonske b. 1942 Laguna Pueblo Oil on canvas 24 x 34 inches Signed lower left; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

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19 Ed Mell b. 1942 Two Horned Dancer Oil on board 10 x 8 inches Signed, titled and dated 2008 verso

20 Ed Mell b. 1942 Roosevelt Lake Rain Oil on board 12 x 9 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2012 verso

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21 Ed Mell b. 1942 Bull Clouds Oil on board 10 x 10 inches Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 2006 verso Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

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22 Bill Schenck b. 1947 Dusk, South of Oraibi Oil on canvas 29 ½ x 42 ½ inches Signed lower right and dated 92; Signed, titled and dated verso Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

23 Bill Schenck b. 1947 Passage Oil on canvas 20 ½ x 30 ½ inches Signed lower right and dated 93; Signed, titled and dated 6/93 verso Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500

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24 Howard Post b. 1948 Red Scarf Oil on canvas 11 x 14 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500

25 Kim Wiggins b. 1960 The Approaching Storm Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 2003 verso Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000

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26 Curt Walters b. 1950 First Glimpse Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches Signed lower right; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

27 Wilson Hurley 1924-2008 Lone Pine Mesa Oil on board 23 ½ x 36 inches Signed lower left and dated 1970 Estimate: $9,000 - 12,000 Wilson Hurley was a West Point graduate, Vietnam Vet, engineer and lawyer. But he left all these accomplishments behind to paint the American West. As a young man living in New Mexico, Hurley studied under Josef Bakos, Theodore Van Soelen and John Young-Hunter, important second generation Santa Fe and Taos painters who seem to have instilled in him a passion for the land and its history. Hurley’s magnificent murals at the Cowboy Hall of Fame and elsewhere demonstrate a deep understanding of the American landscape tradition going back to Bierstadt and Moran. Lone Pine Mesa, with its cloud free sky and horizontal layers of trees and rocks, punctuated by the single rock and single pine, recalls 19th century luminists like Samuel Colman and Worthington Whittridge who sought the subtleties in the natural world.

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28 Russell Case b. 1966 Just Before Dark Oil on board 12 x 16 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2010 verso Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500

29 Russell Case b. 1966 Evening Oil on board 12 x 16 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2011 verso Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500

30 Russell Case b. 1966 Over and Over and Over Oil on board 9 x 20 inches Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 2010 verso Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500

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31 Michael Stack b. 1947 Evening Clouds, Desert Shadows Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Signed lower left; Titled and dated 2000 verso Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500

32 Bob Wygant b. 1927 Evening Glow Acrylic 16 x 20 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

33* Joseph Orr b. 1949 Grazing by the River Acrylic 20 x 24 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000 *Eligible for the Scottsdale Art Auction Award of Merit

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34 Gary Ernest Smith b. 1942 Field Silhouette Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches Signed lower right; Titled verso Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000

35 Benjamin Wu b. 1961 Life in the West Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000 Exhibitions: West Select, 2011

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36 Trevor Swanson b. 1968 Stormy Yellowstone Afternoon Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000

37 Trevor Swanson b. 1968 Alaskan Sunset Oil on canvas 18 x 30 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000

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38 John Coleman b. 1949 The Mountain Trails Society Bronze, cast number 8/25 23 inches high, 24 inches wide Signed, titled and dated 2000 Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

39 James Stafford b. 1937 Over the Top Bronze, cast number 2/10 32 inches high, 32 inches wide, 30 inches deep Signed, titled and dated 91 Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

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40 R. Farrington Elwell 1874-1962 River Crossing Oil on canvas 24 x 34 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000 R. Farrington Elwell’s career as a newspaper sketch artist in Boston took off when Buffalo Bill took notice of his coverage of the Wild West Show. Buffalo Bill hired Elwell as his ranch manager, and for the next quarter century, Elwell, in addition to his duties, did a number of paintings that were reproduced in magazines. Elwell would later settle in the Phoenix area and continue to paint action scenes in the grand Western manner.

41 Fred Fellows b. 1934 When the Round-Up’s Over Oil on board 18 x 36 inches Signed lower left/CA Estimate: $4,000 - 7,000

42 R.S. Riddick b. 1952 Line Camp Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right and dated 1982 Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000

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43 Jason Rich b. 1970 Spring Packer Oil on board 30 x 36 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2005 verso Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000

44 Jim Norton b. 1953 Saddling Up - Warm Accommodations Oil on canvas 24 x 32 inches Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 84 verso Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000

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45 Alfredo Rodriguez b. 1954 Headin’ to the Rendezvous Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 2002 verso Estimate: $18,000 - 24,000

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46 Alfredo Rodriguez b. 1954 Night Sounds Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 1998 verso Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000

47 Alfredo Rodriguez b. 1954 Partners in the Hunt Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 2000 verso Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000

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48 Jim Norton b. 1953 Dreaming of Home Oil on board 13 ½ x 17 ½ inches Signed lower right/CA Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

49 James Boren 1921-1990 Daybreak Doings in a Cow Camp Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right/CA and dated 1968 Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000

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50 G. Harvey b. 1933 Through Golden Aspens Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches Signed lower left and dated 1987; Signed, titled and dated verso Estimate: $50,000 - 75,000

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51 Ray Swanson 1937-2004 A Navajo Grandma’s Touch Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches Signed lower right/CA Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000

Old and young. The passing of tradition from generation to generation through the simple mechanism of the senses, teaching. These are the things Ray Swanson cared about and tried to convey in his art. In A Navajo Grandma’s Touch, Swanson gives us a touching teaching moment as the grandma, in traditional garb, with her grandchild on her lap, shows the child how to touch a lamb ever so gently. The child is mesmerized by the newborn lamb, who has put his head on the child’s hand. You can hear the grandma speaking softly, teaching the child the old words for lamb—dibé yázhí—and wool—aghaa—and telling the child how she used to tend the sheep in the desert when she was a young girl.

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52 Michael Coleman b. 1946 Early Winter Oil on board 12 ½ x 7 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

53 John Coleman b. 1949 Silver Buttons Bronze, cast number 9/50 13 ½ inches high Signed/CA and dated ‘03 Estimate: $3,000 - 4,000

54 Harley Brown b. 1939 Young Powderface Pastel 13 x 10 inches Signed lower right, titled and dated 89 Estimate: $3,500 - 5,000

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55 Roy Andersen b. 1930 Buffalo Offering Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches Signed lower right/CA Estimate: $30,000 - 40,000

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56 Roy Andersen b. 1930 Warrior Oil on canvas 12 x 9 inches Signed lower right/CA Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

57 Roy Andersen b. 1930 The Eagle Bone Whistle Oil on canvas 30 x 20 inches Signed lower right/CA Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000

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58 Jim Norton b. 1953 High in the Rockies Oil on canvas 24 x 32 inches Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 1982 verso Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000

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59 David Nordahl b. 1941 Warmth of the Sun Oil on board 9 x 12 inches Signed lower right and dated 2004; Titled verso Estimate: $2,500 - 3,500

60 Blair Buswell b. 1956 The Peacemaker Bronze, cast number 12/32 21 inches high Signed and dated 1995 Estimate: $1,500 - 2,000

61 Veryl Goodnight b. 1947 Come Forth a Dream Bronze, cast number 23/25 15 inches high, 29 inches wide Signed and dated 1987 Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

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62 M.C. Poulsen b. 1953 Surprise Encounter Oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000

63 Don Crowley b. 1926 Legends Oil on board 30 x 24 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 1980 verso Estimate: $7,000 - 10,000

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64 Don Crowley b. 1926 Blessings of the Shield Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches Signed lower right/CA; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000 Exhibitions: Cowboy Artists of America, Phoenix Art Museum,

October 23 - November 1, 2004.

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65 Howard Rogers b. 1932 Purple Shadows Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

66 Howard Rogers b. 1932 Teri Oil on canvas 12 x 22 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $2,500 - 4,500 67 Ramon Kelley b. 1939 Bernadette Reading Nude Oil on board 12 x 16 inches Signed lower right; Signed, titled and dated 1977 verso Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000 Literature: Ramon Kelley and Mary

Carroll Nelosn. Ramon Kelley

Paints Portraits and Figures.

New York: Watson-Guptill,

1977, Illustrated.

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68 Cyrus Afsary b. 1940 March Thaw Oil on canvas 24 x 24 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000

69 Don Crowley b. 1926 Wild Cotton Pencil 24 ½ x 20 ½ inches Signed lower right

70 Cyrus Afsary b. 1940 Indian Man Charcoal 17 x 14 inches Signed lower left

Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000

Estimate: $1,000 - 1,500

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71 Harry Jackson 1924-2011 Sacagawea (First Working Model for a Monument) Bronze, cast number SAP4P 27 inches high Signed and dated 1977, Signed in paint and dated 1980 Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000 Literature: Donald Goddard and Larry Pointer. Harry Jackson.

New York: Harry N.

Abrams. 1981. pp. 140-146,

277-290, illustrated.

72 Harry Jackson 1924-2011 Set of two works of art Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500 Literature: Donald Goddard and Larry Pointer. Harry Jackson. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1981.

pp. 140-146, 277-290, illustrated.

Study for Sacagawea Pen & Ink, Watercolor 5 ½ x 7 inches Signed lower right and dated 8.8.79

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Study for a Bust Two (Sacagawea) Bronze, cast number SAB49 7 ½ inches high Signed and dated 1980

73 William Acheff b. 1947 Zuni Olla & Acoma Oil on canvas 15 x 26 inches Signed lower right and dated 2000; Signed and dated verso Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000

74 William Acheff b. 1947 Saints and Santero Oil on canvas 28 x 14 inches Signed lower right and dated 2002 Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000

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75 Frank McCarthy 1924-2002 The Coming Storm Oil on board 18 x 24 inches Signed lower right/CA and dated 1979; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $18,000 - 24,000

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76 Robert Abbett b. 1926 Shine Smith’s Christmas Party Oil on board 30 x 40 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $9,000 - 12,000 A copy of the August, 1946 issue of Arizona Highways will accompany this lot.

Literature: Gladwell Richardson, “‘Shine Smith - Friend of the Navajo,” in Arizona Highways.

August, 1946, p.30, illustrated.

Robert Abbett, one of the acknowledged deans of American sporting art, brought a great deal of artistry to the work he did outside of what would come to be his chosen field. The two paintings in this auction, Shine Smith’s Christmas Party and Storm Over Rancho de Taos are complex works combining an unerring sense of composition, and an eye for details of gesture and atmosphere. Together, they demonstrate that Bob Abbett was, in addition to everything else, a very fine artist of the American West.

“Lost in the maze of Northern Arizona canyons, Shine Smith was on the verge of dying from thirst when a Navajo, John Chief, found him. It was ten miles to the nearest water. Shine felt he couldn’t make it, but Chief urged him on. ‘Shine afterwards could recall little of that impossible ride to cheat death. Chief did get him to a spring. That water saved his life. For five days after reaching the spring Shine hovered between life and death in the hogan of Tom Holliday. It was months before he fully recovered. It was at this turning point in Shine’s career he made the vow to devote the rest of his life to helping the Navajo Indians.’” (Arizona Highways).

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77 Robert Abbett b. 1926 Storm Over Rancho de Taos Oil on board 18 ½ x 30 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

Literature: Robert K. Abbett and Gene Hill. The Outdoor Paintings of Robert K. Abbett.

New York: Bantam Books, 1976, plate 19, illustrated.

“On our first trip west, made strictly for picture research, we first visited Don Blair’s Gallery in Santa Fe and then headed up north to Taos. This old church at Rancho de Taos has probably been photographed, drawn and painted as many times as any in the country, but not too often from this angle. Rather than going in and seeing it from the front, I became intrigued with the line of structures all stretched out horizontally and came back the next day to catch it as the midday sun came overhead to wash down across the texture of the adobe buildings. The usual cumulonimbus clouds had built up and were moving off the slopes and it was this play of bright sunlight and dark skies which helped dramatize the church towers” (Abbett, Outdoor Paintings.)

78 Kenneth Riley b. 1919 Booty Oil on board 24 x 48 inches Signed lower left/NAWA and dated 1974 Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000 Exhibitions: National Academy of Western Art,

National Cowboy Hall of Fame,

Oklahoma City, OK, June 8 September 9, 1974

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The landscape that these raiding braves move through is a collection of beautiful but utterly forbidding shapes, a desolate otherworld they want to traverse as silently as possible. Their raid has been successful: three fine horses is a thing to celebrate. But they aren’t home yet and they must be wondering how much more of this moonscape maze they have to get through to feel safe. What’s more, they are coming to a fork on the grassy path, and the position of the viewer, from the path on their right, between two shallow, rock strewn bowls, suggests that we are watching them rather than simply viewing the painting as a whole. Booty is a cool, eerie piece, working the magic of transforming landscape into emotion.

79 Roy Andersen b. 1930 High Plains Thunder Oil on canvas 40 x 48 inches Signed lower right/CA Estimate: $50,000 - 75,000 Exhibitions: Cowboy Artists of America, Phoenix Art Museum, October 23 - November 1, 2004.

High Plains Thunder is a powerful painting by modern master Roy Andersen. A single warrior rides on the crest of a hill while a line of his comrades sneaks past beneath the brow. Disguising your numbers—it’s a classic battle tactic. Resplendent in his robe and with his many-feathered shield, the warrior rides proudly, on the lookout for any enemy. The thunder and rain in the distance is a visible symbol of an approaching battle.

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80 R.S. Riddick b. 1952 Tucker’d Partners Gouache 30 x 40 inches Signed lower right/CA and dated 2000; Signed and dated verso Estimate: $18,000 - 24,000 Exhibitions: Cowboy Artists of

America, Phoenix Art

Museum, October 2000

81 Richard D. Thomas b. 1935 The Young Chestnut Oil on board 16 x 24 inches Signed lower left and dated 94; Signed verso Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000

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82 Tom Saubert b. 1950 Legacy Horse Medicine Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches Signed lower left and dated 1995 Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

83 Don Crowley b. 1926 Cactus Plums Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches Signed Lower right/CA Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000 Exhibitions: Cowboy Artists of America,

Phoenix Art Museum,

October 21 - November 19, 2006

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84 David Mann b. 1948 Comanche Ridge Oil on board 20 x 16 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

85 W. Steve Seltzer b. 1955 Council Meeting Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000

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86 Charles Fritz b. 1955 Marking the Leader Oil on board 8 x 16 inches Signed lower left Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

87 David Mann b. 1948 Coming of the Wagons Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000

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88 Newman Myrah 1921-2010 Face Off Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right; Titled verso Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000

Canadian born Newman Myrah moved to Montana when he was five years old. He studied art in Portland, Oregon, and after a stint in the army moved back there to ply his trade in commercial art. Myrah’s greatest inspiration was Charlie Russell and something of Russell’s composition seeps through Face Off. The tightly packed herd of wild horses circling away past the central drama between the Indian and the black stallion recalls any number of Russell’s works and the implicit humor as the Indian speaks to—and seems to be getting backtalk from—the stallion, has echoes of Russell’s humor.

89 David McGary 1958-2013 Last Stand Hill Bronze, cast number 42/60 22 ½ inches high, 36 ¼ inches wide Signed Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000 Dave McGary grew up in Cody, Wyoming, not far from one of his idols: Harry Jackson. McGary’s early work earned him a scholarship to study in Italy with Jackson and a career was born. Known nationally for his painstakingly detailed polychrome bronzes, McGary’s sculptures are unlike any others in their attention to each feather and bead. Monumental versions of his works have been installed at the Houston Astrodome, the Eiteljorg and Buffalo Bill Museums, in numerous state capitols and in Washington, D.C. Because of his respect for and love of Native American culture, the Bear Clan of the Sioux Nation made him a member of the tribe.

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90 Frank Hagel b. 1933 The Robe Trade, Piegans Heading for the Trading Post Oil on board 28 x 48 inches Signed lower right and dated 1991 Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000

91 Dave Powell b. 1954 Brave Dog Warriors Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches Signed lower left/CA Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000

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92 Mehl Lawson b. 1942 Breaking the Morning Chill Bronze, cast number 24/35 20 inches high Signed/CA and titled Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000

93 Jim Norton b. 1953 Red Rock Country Oil on board 12 x 16 inches Signed lower left; Signed, titled and dated 1983 verso Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

94 Daro Flood b. 1954 The Mustanger Bronze, cast number 26/30 25 inches high Signed Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

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95 Robert Pummill b. 1936 They Rode with Villa Oil on canvas 50 x 60 inches Signed lower left/CA Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000 Exhibitions: Cowboy Artists of America, Phoenix Art Museum, October 18 - November 17, 2002

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96 G. Harvey b. 1933 At First Light Oil on canvas 30 x 42 inches Signed lower left and dated 1979 Estimate: $60,000 - 90,000

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97 G. Harvey b. 1933 When Snow Yields to Spring Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches Signed lower left and dated 1988; Signed, titled and dated verso Estimate: $50,000 - 75,000 Literature: G. Harvey. G. Harvey: The Western Series. Houston, TX: Somerset

House, 2001, p.119, illustrated.

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98 Frank McCarthy 1924-2002 Dust Cloud Rising Ahead Casein 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right and dated 71; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $25,000 - 35,000

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99 Frank McCarthy 1924-2002 Into the Rising Sun Oil on canvas 9 x 12 inches Signed lower left; Titled verso Estimate: $6,000 - 9,000

100 Frank McCarthy 1924-2002 On the War Trail Oil on canvas 12 x 24 inches Signed lower left; Signed and titled verso Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000

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101 Carl Hantman b. 1935 Scouting the Fort Oil on canvas 23 x 33 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $7,000 - 11,000

102 Robert Duncan b. 1952 Going for the Wood Oil on board 24 x 40 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000

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103 John Hampton 1918-1999 The First of Five Million Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches Signed lower right and dated 1958 Estimate: $6,000 - 8,000

104 Ace Powell 1912-1978 Buffalo Talk Oil on canvas 30 x 48 inches Signed lower left with insignia Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000 Ace Powell grew up in Montana, a stone’s throw from both the Blackfeet Reservation and Charlie Russell’s summer home. His family, ranchers and wranglers all, were friends with the Russells and they encouraged young Asa (he would become “Ace” later, after he began signing his paintings with an ace of diamonds) in his passion for art. Despite his various wanderings, Ace Powell called Montana home and he loved to paint the cowboys and Native Americans that rode out of the stories that swirled around Glacier Park.

Buffalo Talk is vintage Powell, a scene out of the fast fading past, playing out on the plains beneath the buttes and hills.

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105 James Boren 1921-1990 The General Store Watercolor 24 x 38 inches Signed lower right/CA and dated 1980 Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000

106 James Boren 1921-1990 When Cowboys Long for Spring Watercolor 26 x 40 inches Signed lower right/CA and dated 1978 Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000 The first art director of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame at its inception in 1965, James Boren was an exceptional artist in his own right, noteworthy in particular for his beautiful, precise watercolors. The amount of control it must have taken to execute a large, intricate work like When Cowboys Long for Spring in a difficult and unforgiving medium is astonishing to consider. Atmosphere, distance, light, snow— not to mention figures and horses—any and all might have gotten away from Boren at any moment. The point of the picture, the pale band of sun on the horizon is enough to get these cowboys talking about the better weather and longer days ahead.

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107 Tom Ryan 1922-2011 The Gay Lady Saloon, Dodge City Oil on board 11 x 18 inches Signed lower right Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000 Exhibitions: “The Brotherhood of Man and The Cowboys of The 6666 Ranch,” National Cowboy and Western Heritage

Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, October 13 - December 21, 2001.

108 Tom Ryan 1922-2011 O.S. Ranch Pastel 5 ½ x 8 ½ inches Signed lower right Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000 Exhibitions: “The Brotherhood of Man and The Cowboys of The 6666 Ranch,” National Cowboy and Western

Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, October 13 - December 21, 2001.

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109 Nicholas Eggenhofer 1897-1985 The Wagon Master Gouache 12 x 9 inches Signed lower left

110 Nicholas Eggenhofer 1897-1985 Free Trapper Gouache 9 ½ x 7 ½ inches Signed lower right

Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

Estimate: $1,000 - 2,000

111 Nicholas Eggenhofer 1897-1985 Indian Children Watercolor & Gouache 15 x 25 ½ inches Signed lower right Estimate: $5,000 - 8,000 Tales of Buffalo Bill enthralled Nick Eggenhofer in his native Bavaria. So much so, that the young artist emigrated to the United States where he quickly found a brisk market for his work in the Western pulps. Eggenhofer’s characteristic dry brush technique and deft handling of watercolors—as well as an absolute devotion to accuracy in matters of costume, saddlery and tack—brought a new realism to illustrations of Western action and life.

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112 Marjorie Reed 1915-1996 Pueblo Oil on board 16 x 20 inches Signed lower right

113 Marjorie Reed 1915-1996 King of the Herd Oil on board 16 x 20 inches Signed lower right; Signed and titled verso

Estimate: $2,000 - 4,000

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Marjorie Reed grew up in Southern California. The daughter of a commercial artist, she loved horses and would walk long distances to find suitable subjects for her pencil and pad. She and her pet Malamute, “Boy” roamed the high desert hills in search of deer and other animals and landscapes to sketch. By her mid-teens, she was earning good money freelancing for ad agencies and greeting card companies and she began to roller skate to “Artist’s Alley,” Champion Place in Alhambra, where Frank Tenney Johnson and Jack Wilkinson Smith, among others, lived and painted. Reed took lessons from Smith and often went on sketching trips with him. Old stagecoach stops, trading posts, Navajo life and canyon landscapes, became the principal subjects of her work. Reed’s work never strays far from her plein air roots. Both King of the Herd and Pueblo employ thick, broad strokes of color to create mass and suggest the movements of horses, clouds and light.

114 Ross Stefan 1934-1999 Has Yesterday Found You? Oil on canvas 28 x 50 inches Signed lower left; Titled and inscribed “Sonoita - Southern Arizona” verso Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000 Literature: John K. Goodman. Ross Stefan, An Impressionistic Painter of the Contemporary Southwest.

Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1977, pp. 10-11.

Ross Stefan’s father, who worked in advertising, encouraged his son’s artistic talent. At 13, young Ross had his first art exhibit which, by all accounts, was quite successful. Six years later, perhaps for his health, Ross moved to Arizona. He took classes for two years, then struck out on his own, opening a studio in Tubac and venturing into the desert to chronicle the land and people there. Has Yesterday Found You? shows some of the influence of Norman Rockwell on Stefan, but the title has a double edge that shifts the work out of the realm of illustration. Who is the “You” in the title? Is it the little ranch and windmill, the fence and horse, forgotten by time, left behind by yesterday? Or is the “You” you, the viewer, who may or may not have seen the facets of yesterday in the painting.

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115 Josef Imhof 1871-1955 Superstition Mountain Oil on board 17 x 21 ¾ inches Signed lower right Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000 In his teens, Joseph Imhof apprenticed at the Currier and Ives firm in New York. Having saved enough to travel to Europe, he found himself on a ship with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Imhof became fascinated with the Indians on board and befriended a number of them. After studying in Europe, Imhof journeyed to New Mexico and settled in Taos.

He was eventually initiated into the Cochiti tribe and was allowed to photograph and paint ceremonies not typically seen by outsiders.

Imhof often traveled outside New Mexico and was drawn to the hallowed and forbidding geology of Arizona’s Superstition Mountains.

116 Josef Imhof 1871-1955 Attack on the Wagon Train Oil on canvas 25 ½ x 38 ½ inches Signed lower left Estimate: $10,000 - 15,000

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117 John Sloan 1871-1951 Mother and Daughter, Santa Fe Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Signed lower right; Signed verso Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000 John Sloan began his career as an illustrator in Pennsylvania then moved to New York after meeting Robert Henri. Like Henri, Sloan saw the harsh injustice of life for the working class and began to seek the real scenes and faces in the streets in order to commit them to canvas. Along with Henri, Prendergast, Lawson and others, Sloan formed “The Eight,” a group of young painters who rebelled against the formality of the National Academy of Design.

Henri, who had vacationed and painted in New Mexico, encouraged Sloan to join him.

Sloan did, loved what he saw, and eventually purchased a summer home there. Mother and Daughter, Santa Fe tells a tale of rapid modernization and the changes in lifestyle that came to New Mexico’s indigenous peoples at the start of the 20th century. Against a backdrop of adobes and low, sage-dotted hills, the mother, clad from head to foot in a black robe, walks beside her daughter, attired in a straw hat, bright blue dress, wide sash, stockings and white shoes. Where the mother peeks out from her traditional hooded robe, the daughter, thoroughly Americanized, eagerly takes in the scene, looking to see who sees her.

118 John Sloan 1871-1951 Set of two etchings Estimate: $1,800 - 2,400

Hombres in the Sun Etching & Drypoint 6 x 4 inches Signed lower right

Black Pot Etching & Drypoint 6 x 4 inches Signed lower right

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119 E. Martin Hennings 1886-1956 Set of three etchings Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000 Provenance: The Artist

Helen Hennings (the artist’s daughter)

Private Collection (circa 1990)

Announcements Etching & Drypoint 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches Signed lower right and titled lower left

The Twins Etching & Drypoint 6 ½ x 6 ¾ inches Signed lower right and titled lower left

Stringing the Bow Etching & Drypoint 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches Signed lower right and titled lower left Literature: Robert Rankin White: The Lithographs and Etchings of E. Martin Hennings. Santa Fe: NM. Museum of New Mexico Press,

1978, pp. 13-14, illustrated.

The three etchings in this lot, Announcements, The Twins, and Stringing the Bow are the only known proofs pulled by E. Martin Hennings’ in his lifetime and signed by him, sometime during the 1920’s. Robert Rankin White, in his monograph on Hennings’ prints, wrote that there were “trial proofs that might once have existed” but added that they “have been lost.” However, these etchings, found among Hennings’ daughter Helen’s effects in her home after her death, appear to clear up the mystery of their disappearance. They are almost certainly unique.

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120 E. Martin Hennings 1886-1956 Portrait of Helen Oil on canvas 40 x 38 inches Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000 The original necklace, the artist’s preliminary drawings for the portrait and a group of unrelated drawings will accompany this lot.

Provenance: The Artist

Helen Hennings (the artist’s daughter)

Private Collection (circa 1990) This beautiful portrait of E. Martin Hennings’ wife, Helen, with the artist’s signature early Fall aspens quaking sinuously in the background, was painted shortly after their return from their European honeymoon in 1926 or early 1927. Accompanying the portrait are the ornate squash blossom necklace Helen wears (which would appear again in a portrait of the artist’s daughter, also named Helen, and in another portrait of a Taos Indian woman entitled Squash Blossom) in the portrait as well as a group of preliminary drawings and a small etching of Helen initialed by the artist. Helen’s slightly sassy posture in the portrait, one arm akimbo, is one that Hennings often used to portray hardy pioneer women and no nonsense Native Americans. The artistry with which Hennings blends the color and pattern of Helen’s blouse with the light on the leaves and their natural randomness makes the painting shimmer with life.

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Lawson, Mehl...........................................................92

Eggenhofer, Nicholas............................109, 110, 111 Elwell, R. Farrington................................................40

Mann, David....................................................84, 87 McCarthy, Frank...........................IFC, 75, 98, 99, 100

Fellows, Fred...................................................1, 5, 41

McGary, David.........................................................89

Flood, Daro..............................................................94

Mell, Ed.......................................................19, 20, 21

Mignery, Herb. ...........................................................3 Fraser, JamesAbsentee Earle......................................................7 bidding arrangements must be made no later than 5:00pm, Friday, April 4.

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your behalf, not necessarily to your maximum bid, but to the next bid above what is offered, provided that your bid bid received take precedence.

Mailed or is in excess of the reserve, if any. In the event of identical bids, the first Smith, Garywill Ernest. ..................................................34 ebeker,faxed Bill............................................................2 bids should be confirmed by email at info@scottsdaleartauction.com

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Absentee Bidder Information: Niblett, Gary.................................................4, 13, 15

Stack, Michael..........................................................31

Stafford, James.........................................................39 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Nordahl, Name David........................................................59 Address______________________________________________________________________________________ Stefan, Ross............................................................114 Norton, Jim...........................................44, 48, 58, 93 City ______________________________________________________State __________Zip _________________

Swanson, Ray...........................................................51

Email _______________________________________________________________________________________

Swanson, Trevor.................................................36, 37 Orr, Joseph...........................................................33* Phone ______________________________________Fax _____________________________________________ Shipping Information: (if different than above)

Thomas, Richard D................................................81 Post, Howard. .........................................................24 Address______________________________________________________________________________________ City ______________________________________________________State __________Zip _________________ Poulsen, M.C. ...........................................................62 Credit Card Information: Powell, Ace............................................................104

Vickers, Russ..........................................................14

Card Number___________________________________________________Expiration Date _________________

Powell, Dave............................................................91 The above listed credit card is to guarantee the bids placed.

address: Same as Bidder Same as Shipping Pummill,Billing Robert......................................................95

Walters, Curt.........................................................26

An invoice will be provided after the auction and the opportunity to change the card or payment method.

Wiggins, Kim..........................................................25

Please bid on my behalf for the following lots up to the bid stated. I have made arrangements with my bank for verification of funds. I understand that my bids are subject to Scottsdale Auction, LLC Terms and Conditions of Wu,ArtBenjamin..........................................................35 eed, Marjorie..............................................112, 113 Art Auction, LLC cannot guarantee the execution of an Sale, as stated in this catalogue on page 4 and that Scottsdale absentee bid, but will make all reasonable efforts. I also understand that my bid, if successful, will be subject to the Wygant, Bob............................................................32 Rich, Jason...............................................................43 standard Buyer’s Premium, as stated in the Terms and Conditions, and any applicable taxes.

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Signature __________________________________________________Date Riddick, R.S.. .................................................8, 42, 80

Riley, Kenneth.........................................................78 Lot #

Description

Rodriguez, Alfredo.......................................45, 46, 47 Rogers, Howard.................................................65, 66 Ryan, Tom......................................................107, 108

Maximum Bid (Does not include Buyer’s Premium)

*Eligible for the Scottsdale Art Auction Award of Merit. See page 3 for more details.

Saubert, Tom...........................................................82 Schenck, Bill......................................................22, 23 Seltzer, W.Absentee Steve.......................................................85 bidding arrangements must be made no later than 5:00pm, Friday, April 4.

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As a courtesy to Absentee Bidders, Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC will execute your bid if you are unable to be present at the auction. Please complete this form and forward it to a member of our staff. A disinterested party will bid on your behalf, not necessarily to your maximum bid, but to the next bid above what is offered, provided that your bid is in excess of the reserve, if any. In the event of identical bids, the first bid received will take precedence. Mailed or faxed bids should be confirmed by email at info@scottsdaleartauction.com Absentee Bidder Information: Name _______________________________________________________________________________________ Address______________________________________________________________________________________ City ______________________________________________________State __________Zip _________________ Email _______________________________________________________________________________________ Phone ______________________________________Fax _____________________________________________ Shipping Information: (if different than above) Address______________________________________________________________________________________ City ______________________________________________________State __________Zip _________________ Credit Card Information: Card Number___________________________________________________Expiration Date _________________ The above listed credit card is to guarantee the bids placed.

Billing address: Same as Bidder Same as Shipping An invoice will be provided after the auction and the opportunity to change the card or payment method.

Please bid on my behalf for the following lots up to the bid stated. I have made arrangements with my bank for verification of funds. I understand that my bids are subject to Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC Terms and Conditions of Sale, as stated in this catalogue on page 4 and that Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC cannot guarantee the execution of an absentee bid, but will make all reasonable efforts. I also understand that my bid, if successful, will be subject to the standard Buyer’s Premium, as stated in the Terms and Conditions, and any applicable taxes.

Signature __________________________________________________Date

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Description

Maximum Bid (Does not include Buyer’s Premium)

Absentee bidding arrangements must be made no later than 5:00pm, Friday, April 4.

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As a courtesy to Telephone Bidders, Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC will arrange for telephone lines on lots with a minimum estimate of $5,000 and over. For lots under $5,000, please use our Absentee Bid Form. Please complete this form and forward it to a member of our staff. Bidders are encouraged to make arrangements early as telephone lines will be allocated on a first come basis.

Telephone Bidder Information: Name _______________________________________________________________________________________ Address______________________________________________________________________________________ City ______________________________________________________State __________Zip _________________ Email _______________________________________Fax _____________________________________________ Phone ______________________________________Alternate Phone __________________________________ Shipping Information: (if different than above) Address______________________________________________________________________________________ City ______________________________________________________State __________Zip _________________ Credit Card Information: Card Number___________________________________________________Expiration Date _________________ The above listed credit card is to guarantee the bids placed.

Billing address: Same as Bidder Same as Shipping An invoice will be provided after the auction and the opportunity to change the card or payment method.

Please bid on my behalf for the following lots up to the bid stated. I have made arrangements with my bank for verification of funds. I understand that my bids are subject to Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC Terms and Conditions of Sale, as stated in this catalogue on page 4 and that Scottsdale Art Auction, LLC cannot guarantee the execution of an absentee bid, but will make all reasonable efforts. I also understand that my bid, if successful, will be subject to the standard Buyer’s Premium, as stated in the Terms and Conditions, and any applicable taxes.

Signature __________________________________________________Date ______________________________

Lot #

Description

Maximum Bid (Does not include Buyer’s Premium)

Telephone bidding arrangements must be made no later than 5:00pm, Thursday, April 3.

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Writer: James Balestrieri Photography: Rob Kaufman Hilton Head Island, SC (843) 290-8883 www.kaufmanphotography.com Design & Production: Cindy & Paula Moser Ridgeland, SC (843) 441-3686 www.xmsdesigns.com Printing: O’Neil Printing Phoenix, AZ (602) 258-7789 www.oneilprint.com

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