TidbitsEd Archie NoiseCat won Best of Show at Indian Arts Northwest in June in Portland, OR. The winning piece, In the Beginning, is a 6-foot carved wood panel. Craig Tennant has been voted a signature member of the Oil Painters of America after only five months as an associate member.Wyoming painter Daryl Poulin won First Place and Best of Show at the 11th annual Santa Fe Trail Western Art Show, which was held in June at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, CO.Prix de West Invitational Despite a tornado alert that sent artists and patrons to the basement of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, OK, the Prix de West Invitational Exhibition and Sale in June was a success, with sales reaching $1.9 million. The Prix de West Award went to Kent Ullberg for his bronze of two sea otters. The piece, Ocean’s Cradle, will be added to the museum’s permanent collection. Howard Terpning won the Frederic Remington Award for his oil painting The River’s Gift. Fellow exhibiting artists chose Dan Gerhartz as the winner of the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award for his display of four paintings. Curt Walters won the Nona Jean Hulsey Rumsey Buyer’s Choice Award.Show Results American and European Paintings Skinner, Inc. Boston, MA, May 1998Top Lots: George Luks, St. Botolph Street, oil, 301⁄4 x 251⁄8, $112,500Thomas Moran, Colburn Butte,S. Utah, watercolor and gouache on paper/board, 131⁄2 x 9, $101,500Francis Luis Mora, The Toy Boat,oil, 25 x 30, $46,000Charles Henry Gifford, England Coastal Scene, oil, 18 x 24, $37,950Animated View With Ruins and Figures, attributed to Leonardo Coccorante, oil, 73 x 641⁄2, $37,375William Trost Richards, Shoreline With Passing Front, oil, 20 x 40, $36,800Adrianus Eversen, The Merchant Under the Castle Walls, oil,171⁄2 x 141⁄4, $26,450Walter Launt Palmer, Snow and Sunlight, oil, 18 x 27, $21,800Sanford Robinson Gifford, At Play in the Surf, oil, 131⁄4 x 271⁄4, $20,700Emil Bisttram, Taos Mountains, watercolor and graphite,19 x 25, $18,400John Joseph Enneking, Spring Fields, oil, 18 x 24, $14,950Phippen Western Art Show & Sale Phippen Museum Prescott, AZ, May 1998Awards:Jim Tschetter, Best of Show Bradford Williams, Phippen Family AwardD. Michael Thomas, George Phippen Memorial Foundation Award Steven Lang, People’s Choice AwardRed Earth FestivalOklahoma City, OK, June 1998Awards:Tillier Wesley, Grand Award Anthony Lovato, President’s AwardBest of Division winners:Argus Dowdy, cultural items and attireDewayne Mathews, drawing and printmakingDiana Beach, paintingMyron Panteah, jewelryRose Pecos Sun Rhodes, potteryGordon Tonips, sculptureClarence Lee, diversified art forms
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