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The Coeur D’Alene Art Auction

The Illustrators at Auction

For every illustration that ever graced the cover of magazines like Harper’s, Field and Stream, Collier’s and The Saturday Evening Post, there is an original work of art in a collection or museum attesting to the veracity and story telling capacity of the artist. Here are just a few that will be sold at the rollicking, painting a minute, Coeur D’Alene Art Auction in Reno on 21 July 2012.

Philip R. Goodwin (1881-1935), In Troubled Water, 1908, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in. $40,000-60,000. Credit: Coeur D’Alene Art Auction

Philip R. Goodwin (1881-1935), Unexpected Guests, n.d., oil on canvas, 24 x 33 in. $60,000-90,000. Credit: Coeur D’Alene Art Auction

W.H.D. Koerner (1878-1938), Waiting for His Return, 1918, oil on canvas, 36 x 26 in. $40,000-60,000. Credit: Coeur D’Alene Art Auction

Frank Stick (1884-1966), On Alert, 1919, oil on canvas, 30 x 35 in., $8,000-12,000. Credit: Coeur D’Alene Art Auction

Image of the Day - Vintage Photo, June 2, 2012

Passionate Kisses, 1930s. Vernacular photograph of the West from the My-West.com photography collection.

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Get real. The best fashion statement — authenticity. Handmade in New York, these bags epitomize a true western aesthetic.

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Image of the Day - Vintage Photo, May 23, 2012

The Photographer, 1938. Vernacular photograph of the West from the My-West.com photography collection.

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Image of the Day, May 18, 2012

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 1^st 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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