Scottsdale Art Auction

A consortium of leading American art dealers has organized a western art auction to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona in the spring of each year. Under the banner, Scottsdale Art Auction, dealers Mike Frost (Bartfield Galleries of New York City), Jack A. Morris, Jr. and J. Ben Whiteside (Morris & Whiteside Galleries of Hilton Head Island, SC) and Brad Richardson (Legacy Galleries of Scottsdale, Arizona and Jackson Hole, Wyoming) joined together and presented their first sale on April 2, 2005 at Richardson�s Legacy Gallery on Main Street in Scottsdale, Arizona. The group was organized by Jack A. Morris, Jr., former owner of Morris Fine Arts in Scottsdale and licensed auctioneer and art dealer in Texas, New Mexico and South Carolina for the past twenty years. Joining Morris is noted western art authority, Mike Frost, who has been instrumental in building significant public and private collections of historically important western art throughout the country and Brad Richardson whose Legacy Galleries have become a national leader representing several members of the Cowboy Artists of America, National Academy of Western Art, and a number of exhibiting artists from the annual Prix de West in Oklahoma City and Western Masters exhibition and sale at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.