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Colt 1849 Pocket Model engraved firearm, exhibition grade. Estimate: $40,000-$60,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.

Premier Western art available at ‘March in Montana’ Auction & Show

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Colt 1849 Pocket Model engraved firearm, exhibition grade. Estimate: $40,000-$60,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Colt 1849 Pocket Model engraved firearm, exhibition grade. Estimate: $40,000-$60,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. – You’ve heard of Paris in the spring and autumn in New York, but now it’s time to saddle up and head out West to the March in Montana Auction and Show.

Manitou Galleries is partnering with the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction to conduct the 22nd annual March in Montana event, held March 19-21 at The Townhouse Inn in Great Falls, Montana. The show portion runs from March 19-21, 2009, and will be open for business from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day, while the auction will take place on March 20-21.

Among the auction highlights are several Indian warshirts and dozens of other pieces of Indian beadwork, quillwork and weavings, including several J. B. Moore patterns. Fine art selections include works by Russell, Schwiering, Kleiber, Borein, Poulin, Niblett, Riley, Sprunger, deDecker, Kerswill, O.C. Seltzer and De Yong. Other artists of renown whose works will be auctioned include Swanson, Goodan, Baumann, Fritz, Steve Seltzer, Sharp, Fery, Berninghaus, E. S. Curtis, Scriver, Fechin, Couse, Andy Thomas, Lindneux, Reed, Delano, Swanson, Ken Riley, Clymer, Harry Jackson, Hennings, Grandee, Reiss, Dennis Anderson, Ace Powell, Dave Powell and dozens more

A 3-day dealer show Mar. 19-21 will accompany the event. More than 50 top dealers pf art and “cowboy and Indian” material from across the country will display fine furniture and accessories, vintage clothing and accessories, contemporary and deceased art and sculpture, antique Cowboy items, vintage photography, and Indian collectibles including weavings, basketry, pottery and Indian bead and quillwork. Appraisal and commission services will also be offered.

For additional information, contact Manitou Galleries at 307-635-0019 or e-mail charlajmg@aol.com. Visit their Web sites www.marchinmontana.com or www.manitouartbrokers.com; or The Coeur d’Alene Art Auction at www.cdaartauction.com.

ADDITIONAL LOTS OF NOTE

Feeding Chipmunks, John Clymer (1907-1989). Featured on cover of May 16, 1953 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. John Clymer (1907-1989). Estimate: $20,000-$30,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Feeding Chipmunks, John Clymer (1907-1989). Featured on cover of May 16, 1953 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. John Clymer (1907-1989). Estimate: $20,000-$30,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Navajo Sunrise Klagetoh weaving, one of possibly only three of this size woven by the Navajo in the 1950s. Estimate: $30,000-40,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Navajo Sunrise Klagetoh weaving, one of possibly only three of this size woven by the Navajo in the 1950s. Estimate: $30,000-40,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Handmade plaster and cloth doll with hand-carved wood pipe, by C.M. Russell (1864-1926). Provenance: Richard Flood Collection. Estimate: $15,000-$20,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Handmade plaster and cloth doll with hand-carved wood pipe, by C.M. Russell (1864-1926). Provenance: Richard Flood Collection. Estimate: $15,000-$20,000. Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Circa-1870 beaded Crow warshirt. Estimate: $30,000-40,000) Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
Circa-1870 beaded Crow warshirt. Estimate: $30,000-40,000) Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
When One is Old (White Paint Mountain), Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953). Estimate: $150,000-$250,000). Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.
When One is Old (White Paint Mountain), Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953). Estimate: $150,000-$250,000). Image courtesy Manitou Galleries.