Wulf Barsch (1943 - )
untitled, 1986
lithograph
22 x 20 inches
Retail Price $400
Holiday Sale $350
Conrad Buff (1886-1975)
Zion, 1931
lithograph
12.50 x 17.25 inches
Retail Price $5,000
Holiday Sale $4,000
Born and raised in the conservatism of nineteenth-century Switzerland, Conrad Buff spent a restless youth seeking an outlet for his artistic spirit. His talent would flourish in the majestic landscape and creative individualism of the American West. In the opening decade of the new century, his arrival in California coincided with the flowering of a dynamic movement in American art. Sketching and painting en plein air, Buff was inspired by the grandeur of the High Sierras and the drama of the wind-sculpted desert. In a long and prodigious career he bridged the coloration and brushwork of impressionism with the abstraction and structure of modern art. (Source: The Art and Life of Conrad Buff, by Libby Buff, George Stem, Will South) In the 1920s, a Los Angeles art critic wrote, “Conrad Buff comprehends the enormity of the West. More than that, he adds thereto a discernment of the stylized and conventionalized forms in which the West abound. Not one artist in a hundred grasps the significance of the West’s dynamic forms.”
Lee Deffebach (1928 - 2005)
Pacific Heights, 1982
Watercolor
9h x 12w inches
Retail Price $ 2,500.00
Holiday Sale Price $2,250
Lee Deffebach
Two Chimneys at Tuscarora, 1986
Oil on canvas
7.50 x 9.50 inches
Retail Price $ 2,000.00
Holiday Sale $1,800
Lee Deffebach (1928-2005)
untitled, 1974
acrylic on canvas
55h x 44w inches
Retail Price $15,000
Holiday Sale $13,500
Lee Deffebach (1928-2005)
A Visit to Moab, 1989
monotype
6 x 6 inches (site)
Retail Price $900
Holiday Sale $850
Lee Deffebach (1928-2005)
Art Song, 1994
found metal
11.50 x 8 inches
Retail Price $450
Holiday Sale $250
Lee Deffebach (1928-2005)
Avalon, 1996
found metal
10.50 x 8 inches
Retail Price $450
Holiday Sale $250
Lee Deffebach (1928-2005)
untitled, 2000
wood
7.5 x 5.25 inches
Retail Price $200
Holiday Sale $150
Lee Deffebach (1928-2005)
Odd-Lot System, 1964
Collage
27.75 x 32.5 inches
Retail Price $ 1,500
Holiday Sale $950
Lee Deffebach (1928-2005)
Untitled, 1965
Collage
18h x 23w inches
Retail Price $ 1,500
Holiday Sale $950
Maynard Dixon (1875 - 1946)
Snake Kiva-Oraibi, 1902
pastel on paper
11 x 8 inches
Price Upon Request
In 1902 Dixon accepted a commission for illustration work from the Santa Fe Railroad. In addition to being a source of income, it was an opportunity to retun to AZ, with which he had become enthralled on his first trip there in 1900. He accompanied photographer Frederick I. Monson in Los Angeles on his assignment to photograph the Hopi on their remote mesas.
It was, and remains, extremely rare for Anglos to be invited to reside with and observe the Hopi. Dixon spent considerable time in Hopi country, including a 1923 trip in which he convalesced for four months, living with Namoki, one of the snake priests, and his blind brother, Loma Himma. Dixon earned the trust of his Native American acquaintances and subjects through the years through showing them respect and displaying a genuine interest in their beliefs, practices, and cultures. Even though he worked an an illustrator of western subjects, he had disdain for romanticized, condescending depictions of all westerners. Here he has created an honest and admiring imaged of the Hopi village adobe architecture and ceremonial structure of the kiva.
James T. Harwood (1860 - 1940)
Old Brigham Young Mill Liberty Park, 1885
etching
3 x 4 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Retail Price $1,500
Holiday Sale $1,250
Harwood produced several paintings and etchings of the former farm and mill of Mormon colonizer Brigham Young, which later became Liberty Park in Salt Lake City. This lovely, gem-like etching recalls the French Barbizon School training that Harwood received in Paris, and which he successfully translated into a celebration of rural life in Utah. A late afternoon sun lights the cultivated fields, and on the mill's western adobe wall, as the days sets on land that is now part of an urban oasis.
Sekino Jun'ichiro (1914-1988)
Blue Roof Tops
27.375 x 18.375 inches
Woodblock Print
Retail Price $1,950
Holiday Sale $1,500
Biography
Junichiro Sekino, a painter, graphic designer and a woodblock* print maker was one of the noted artists of the Sosaku Hanga* movement, an important current of Japanese art.
Sekino was stylistically and technically diverse: he easily switched from figurative to abstract art, from black and white compositions to colourful expression. He was also flexible with subjects. Sekino sometimes resorted to mixing Western and Japanese techniques in his works.
He grew up in Aomori City alongside Shiko Munakata, the future 'Japanese Picasso', studying printmaking and oil painting. 1936 brought him a Bunten award for his etching*, awarded by the government. In 1939 he moved to the capital, where he came across the Sosaku Hanga movement and studied under one of its fathers: Koshiro Onchi. He kept a dual direction of his studies: traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques as well as Western ones, modeling himself on the great artists of Japan and West.
During the war Sekino worked in a factory producing ammunition, as artistic life in Japan in those harsh years had literally reached a standstill. After the war, Sekino struggled to survive producing book illustrations. The 1950's were a better time for Sekino, and he launched his first show in Tokyo in 1953.
His works were also exhibited outside Japan and bought internationally by such European and American entities as the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York and The Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
In 1958 he received an invitation from the Rockefeller Foundation and the American Japan Society. From then on Sekino traveled and taught around the world. From 1965 he held a position at Kobe University." Source: Askart
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)
Temple, 1964
lithograph
23.75h x 17.75w inches
Retail Price $ 15,000.00
Holiday Sale $13,500.00
J. Henri Moser (1876 -1951)
Bear Lake, Utah, 1950
Oil on board
9h x 12w inches
Retail Price $ 6,000
Holiday Sale $5,400
Don Olsen (1910-1983)
Enigma Variation, 1976
acrylic on canvas
72h x 60w inches
Retail Price $20,000
Holiday Sale $18,000
Don Olsen 1910 - 1983
UTICA, 1978
acrylic on paper
24.50 x 21.25 inches
Retail Price $5,000
Holiday Sale $4,500
Birger Sandzen. (1871-1954)
The Old Mill, Logan, Utah, 1929
Oil on canvas
22 x 28 inches
Price Upon Request
A view of a red mill before a poplar grove, set in the rugged Western landscape of Logan, Utah, applied in thick impasto typical of Sandzen's signature style. The mill also served as the subject of another Sandzen oil, The Red Mill (1929), in the Wichita Art Museum's permanent collection, as well as a watercolor in the collection of the Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery.
Birger Sandzen (1871 - 1954)
The Red Canyon, 1927
lithograph
17 x 22.25 inches
Retail Price $3,000
Holiday Sale $1,500
DESCRIPTION
Pencil-signed and titled The Red Canyon is a view of the Colorado River, near Moab, Utah.
SIGNATURE
Pencil signed - title lower left and signed lower right. Printed signature and dated lower right.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Charles Pelham Greenough, The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 2001, L - 117
Sven Birger Sandzen (1871-1954)
Arroyo with Trees, 1925
lithograph
12h x 18w inches
Retail Price $ 2,750
Holiday Sale $1,800
Birger Sandzen (1871 - 1954)
Utah Poplars, 1930
lithograph
20 x 16 inches
Retail Price #3,000
Holiday Sale $1,500
Description
A pencil-signed and titled lithographic composition of tall poplar trees.
Birger Sandzen 1871 - 1954
Timberline Snow, 1925
lithograph
9 7/8 x 13.75 inches
Retail Price $ 2,000
Holiday Sale $1,500
DESCRIPTION
A pencil-signed and titled vista of Pike's Peak, with cedars in the foreground. Executed on cream laid paper, in a wooden frame.
Ito Shinui 1898 - 1972
Soshun no Yoshida ( Early Spring in Yoshida), c. 1938
woodblock print
10.75 x 15.75 inches
signed and sealed Shinsui
Retail Price $2,000
Holiday Sale $1,200
An oban yoko-e print of Soshun no Yoshida (Early Spring in Yoshida), from the series Izu hakkei no uchi (Eight Views of Izu), of fields with Mount Fuji in the distance, publisher Watanabe Shozaburo seal (G: 1942-45), printer Ono Gintaro;
Frank Anthony "Tony" Smith
Scarecrow, 1983
43 x 55 inches
acrylic on canvas
Retail Price $10,000
Holiday Sale $7,500
One art curator wrote that, "Tony Smith’s paintings are works in motion…abundant in visual and psychological intrigue…imbued with magic, possibility, and surprise.” A professor at the U of U from 1966 - 2001, uses illusionism, light, and color to create magical moments. Smith remarked that, “What is important to me is magic, literal magic, a sense that the world is changeable, surprising, that it’s more than you think."
V. Douglas Snow (1927 - 2009)
The Road to Fruita
Oil on canvas
40h x 60w inches
Retail Price $22,500
Holiday Sale $19,500
V. Douglas Snow (1927 - 2009)
untitled, 1982
Oil on canvas
36h x 48d inches
Retail Price $15,000
Holiay Sale $13,500
Sherry Tafoya (1956 - )
Santa Clara Carved Blackware, 1985
Clay
9.5 x 9 inches
Signed on base
Retail Price $1,500
Holiday Sale $1,250
Born in Santa Clara Pueblo in 1956, Sherry Tafoya is the daughter of potter Mida Tafoya, a grand-daughter of Christina Naranjo, and a great-grand-daughter of Serafina Tafoya. She carries on the family artistic and stylistic tradition with sharply incised black and redware.
Incised black and redware pottery is one of the most recognized and celebrated styles of puebloan pottery. It emerged as a signature method of manufacture and design within the Santa Clara Pueblo, though its origins can be traced to the Ancestral Puebloan people whose pottery-making traditions can be traced back thousands of years.
Contemporary potters such as Sherry Tafoya follow the traditional hand-coil method of rolling wet clay into snakes and coiling the snakes on top of each other. As the coils piled up, they are pinched together, then scraped on the inside and out to smooth the surfaces and remove extra clay. Decoration is applied by brushing darker or lighter colors - red, black, and white over the surface. The carving of the decoration takes place before firing in a wood-burning kiln structure.
Sherry Tafoya's work is characterized by deliberate and shaply formed carved edges, yielding especially crisp designs. Her pottery is illustrated on page 233 of the book "Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery."
Linda Tafoya (1962-)
Santa Clara Carved Blackware Jar, 1985
Clay
10.5 x 8 inches
Signed on base
Retail Price $1.500
Holiday Sale $1,250
Linda Tafoya is the granddaughter of Santa Clara Pueblo pottery matriarch Margaret Tafoya, and the daughter of Lee and Betty Tafoya. She began making pottery at age 12, with her father teaching her to make the vessels and carve the designs, and her mother teaching her how to sand and carve the vessels. She learned how to manipulate the firing process to create a deep, black color, and uses family heirloom stones to perfect the polishing effect. Although she has received many accolades, Linda is most proud of praise she once received from her renowned potter grandmother Margaret Tafoya: "You do good pots."
William Wendt 1865 - 1946
untitled (canyon landscape)
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Price Upon Request
