PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCULPTURE
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 9:56PM Tweet Get real. The best fashion statement — authenticity. Handmade in New York, these bags epitomize a true western aesthetic.
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Credit: abknyc.com
Credit: abknyc.com
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 9:29PM Tweet The Photographer, 1938. Vernacular photograph of the West from the My-West.com photography collection.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 12:28AM Tweet By Donna Poulton
Demand for Henry Farny’s (1847-1916) best work is consistently driving prices at auction beyond the high estimate ... way beyond. On May 1st Farny’s Southern Plains Indian Warrior (1894) sold for $362,500, a surprising $162,500 above estimate.
Credit: Bohhams & Butterfields San FranciscoPainting at the same time as Remington and Russell, Farny concentrated on daily activities of Native Americans in North Dakota, Montana and Arizona. Reported to be a lively storyteller, he counted Teddy Roosevelt and General Ulysses Grant among his good friends. An illustrator during the early part of his career for the leading magazines of the day, he turned to easel painting in 1890.
In 2002, his painting “A Moment of Suspense” sold for $889,500 and in 2003, a gouache on paper sold for $466,000 above the high estimate of $700,000.
A Moment of Suspense, 1911, oil on canvas, 24 x 16 in. Credit: Phillips, de Pury & CompanyHenry Farny’s, Song of the Talking Wire, 1904 is, perhaps his most famous painting.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 9:32PM Tweet Howard, c. 1940s. Vernacular photograph of the West from the My-West.com photography collection.
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1940s, South Dakota, Vacation | in Vernacular Photograph, Vintage Photograph Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 10:37PM Tweet Photographed by David F. Barry (1854-1934), “Sitting Bull,” mounted albumen print. Lakota chief and holy man, Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was famous for his 1876 victory over George A. Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in southern Montana.
Credit: Bonhams D. F. Barry had a studio in Bismarck, North Dakota. From there he travelled to photograph Lakota, Apsolooke, Cheyenne, Arikara and other tribes.
The cabinet card of Sitting Bull, photographed in the 1880s is for sale at Bonhams, San Francisco, June 5th 2012 at 10:00 a.m. (although the web site reads June 4th at 12:00). Estimated sale price: $2000-3000.
