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Western Art, including Contemporary Native American
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- Sale 951
Live
| Denver
Nov 4 | 10:00 AM MDT
Live
| Denver
Sale 951
| Denver
| Denver
Estimate$100,000 – $200,000
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Danica Farnand
Vice President, Head of Department, Native American Art
Provenance:
Saks Galleries, Denver, Colorado
This painting will be included in Phyllis Braff, Melissa Speidel Webster and Stephen Good's forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist's works.
Thomas Moran visited Zion, then in the Utah Territory, only once, in July, 1873, while on his way to join John Wesley Powell’s U.S. Geological Survey Expedition to the Grand Canyon. The artist would travel to and paint the Grand Canyon many times, often annually, but Zion was somewhat off the beaten path and not as readily accessible by train. Still, scenes from Zion in watercolor and oil punctuate Moran’s entire career. Moran’s onsite sketches and small watercolors of the Kolob and Zion Canyons, and photographs taken by expedition photographer John K. Hillers proved an ongoing wellspring of inspiration for the artist. It is as if Zion, for Moran, was at once a place and a kind of unfinished canvas in a recurring dream, one on which Moran could project and paint an inner vision, a dreamscape, as it were, of a remote, otherworldly West.
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Bart Monson is the director and specialist of Western & Wildlife Art at Hindman.
Mr. Monson brings a decade of experience in his specialization to Hindman Auctions. He began his career working with Western, Wildlife and American Art in gallery settings in Jackson Hole, WY. While moving into Private Sales of Post War and Contemporary Art as well over the past several years, he has continued to serve his clients in more traditional genres. Over the course of his career, he has worked closely with private collectors, museum curators, art investment funds, and family office clients.
