LONE JACK, Mo. — An amazing collection of 11 works by Swedish American landscape master Birger Sandzen (1871-1954) provides the focus of Soulis Auctions‘ Winter Fine Art sale on Saturday, February 24. The catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

A native of Sweden, Sandzen received a position at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas in 1894, where he would spend the next 52 years teaching art. During that time, he amassed a highly respected and valuable body of work that performs well with contemporary collectors. The sale’s top-estimated lots are both Sandzen oils. Scene from Rocky Mountain National Park dates to 1936 and demonstrates the artist’s knack for capturing the reflectiveness of water, while Study from the Rocky Mountain National Park is from 1922 and from what is known as Sandzen’s ‘middle period’, in which his technique was to use ‘short, singular, confident strokes’ to his brushwork. Both paintings are estimated at $40,000-$50,000.

The sale includes a number of signed Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) lithographs issued in the 1940s and 1950s by Associated American Artists. Chief among them is a 1955 lithograph titled Running Horses. In the stylized image, a trio of horses keep pace with a steam locomotive passing by in the background. It carries an estimate of $6,000-$9,000.

Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) is a French sculptor who also produced limited editions in bronze. This 1902 example in dark green-brown patination is Le Petite Mediterranee or La Mediterranee, etude. It bears the foundry mark Alexis Rudier, Fondeur, Paris and has the artist’s interlaced AM monogram. The piece is currently in France for authentication. It is estimated at $20,000-$30,000.