Museum News
The board of trustees of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society and its Cheney Cowles Museum in Spokane, WA, has named Jane Johnson to replace Glenn Mason as chief executive officer. Johnson assumed her new position July 1. She was formerly vice president for university advancement at Eastern Washington University in Spokane.
The Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles has announced the appointment of John Gray as executive director. He replaces Joanne Hale, who continues as president of the museum’s board of directors. Gray was a senior executive with the Small Business Administration in Washington, DC.
Tidbits
Texas-based artist David Bates has been commissioned by the Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. and Forbes magazine to create a signed, limited-edition print that is given to recipients of the 1999 Business in the Arts Awards on October 6 in New York, NY. Bates is known for still-life, figurative, and landscape paintings. The national awards are presented annually to recognize businesses and business executives for their exemplary support of the arts.
Rio Grande Valley Farmlands by Susan Amstater-Schwartz has been chosen as the image for the 1999 Santa Fe Opera poster. The artist resides in Santa Fe, NM, and El Paso, TX.
Museum News
The board of trustees of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society and its Cheney Cowles Museum in Spokane, WA, has named Jane Johnson to replace Glenn Mason as chief executive officer. Johnson assumed her new position July 1. She was formerly vice president for university advancement at Eastern Washington University in Spokane.
The Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles has announced the appointment of John Gray as executive director. He replaces Joanne Hale, who continues as president of the museum’s board of directors. Gray was a senior executive with the Small Business Administration in Washington, DC.
Tidbits
Texas-based artist David Bates has been commissioned by the Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. and Forbes magazine to create a signed, limited-edition print that is given to recipients of the 1999 Business in the Arts Awards on October 6 in New York, NY. Bates is known for still-life, figurative, and landscape paintings. The national awards are presented annually to recognize businesses and business executives for their exemplary support of the arts.
Rio Grande Valley Farmlands by Susan Amstater-Schwartz has been chosen as the image for the 1999 Santa Fe Opera poster. The artist resides in Santa Fe, NM, and El Paso, TX.
Show Results
California, Western, & American Paintings, Drawings & SculptureChristie’sLos Angeles, CA; April 1999Overall sales: $2,811,958
Top lots:Guy Rose, San Gabriel Wash, oil, 24 x 29, $277,500William Wendt, Mountain Infinity, oil, 40 x 50, $200,500John Marshall Gamble, Poppies and Lupine, oil, 30 x 40, $173,000Henry F. Farny, The Ford, watercolor,9 1/2 x 6 1/2, $173,000Theodore Wores, A Relic of the Past, oil, 16 x 24, $134,500Eanger Irving Couse, Ute Waterbottle, oil, 24 x 29, $101,500Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, Crystal Craig at Lake George Near White Lodge, watercolor, 36 x 28, $74,000Herman Wendelborg Hansen, Attack on the Wagon Train, oil, 36 x 50, $68,500Olaf Carl Seltzer, The Brand Rustlers, oil, 20 x 30, $63,000Raymond Dabb Yelland, Mt. Hood, Columbia River, oil,28 x 48, $63,000
American & European PaintingsSkinner, Inc.Boston, MA; May 1999Overall sales: $911,311
Top lots:Norman Rockwell, Organ Grinder, oil, 22 1/2 x 22 1/2, $145,500Emile Munier, La Petite Fille, oil, 25 1/2 x 20 3/4, $74,000Frederick Childe Hassam, Rain and Mist, Gloucester Harbor, watercolor, 14 x 20, $40,250Everhardus Koster, Des Pecheurs de Schevninger Dans L’Attente, oil, 22 x 39, $32,200John Joseph Enneking, Spring Pastures, oil, 22 x 30, $29,900George Loftus Noyes, Gloucester Harbor, oil, 25 x 24, $28,750Thomas Buttersworth, Boats of H.M.S. ‘Diana’ Capturing American Pirate Schooner ‘Topaz’ Macao Roads 8th August 1807, oil, 22 1/4 x 34 3/4, $28,750Alice Ravenal Huger Smith, Flying Egrets, watercolor,20 5/8 x 15 7/8, $25,300Walter M. Brackett, Trout, Rod, and Reel on a Riverbank, oil, 20 x 32, $18,400Emile Albert Gruppe, On Fish, oil, 20 x 24, $13,800
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