This May, Heritage Auctions will host the spring edition of its American Art sale in Dallas. The approximately 150-lot sale offers masterworks across all genres of American art and across a wide range of values from $5,000 to $500,000. 
Birger Sandzén (1871-1954), Twilight, 1941, oil on canvas, 22¼ x 28¼” Estimate: $25/35,000
“Our upcoming [American art] sale will not disappoint,” says Aviva Lehmann, senior vice president and director of American art at Heritage Auctions. “Following up on our stupendous 2021, seeing our highest sale totals in the category in the company’s history (over $25 million), we continue to demonstrate our position as leaders in the field of American art.”
Among some of the top blue-chip lots in the sale are works of Western art, including a fantastic grouping of works by celebrated contemporary Western painter Ed Mell. The Arizona-born artist is best known for his paintings, posters and bronzes depicting Southwestern sunsets and the cowboy way of life. “We have some killer Ed Mell works in the sale,” Lehmann says.
Maynard Dixon (1875-1946), Trail Song It was a Long and Tiresome Go, 1908, watercolor and pencil on board, 10 x 8¼” Estimate: $7/10,000
Ed Mell, Driving Storm, oil on canvas, 30 x 30” Estimate: $25/35,000
Other major Western lots, Lehmann adds, include pieces by Birger Sandzén, G. Harvey and Maynard Dixon, to name a few. “An American sale at Heritage would never be complete without examples by our collector/client favorites [like] Birger Sandzén (we hold the auction record) and G. Harvey—we [also] hold very strong prices for his work, naturally, as a Texas-based house,” she says.
G. Harvey (1933-2017), Reflection of Old New York, oil on canvas, 20 x 24” Estimate: $40/60,000
Dixon’s watercolor and pencil, Trail Song It was a Long and Tiresome Go, is a sepia-toned scene of a cowboy on horseback wrangling a herd of cattle. Executed in 1908, the Dixon piece has a presale estimate of $7,000 to $10,000. Sandzén’s 1941 oil Twilight depicts the land in Lindsborg, Kansas, just before dusk, rendered in a palette of pinks, blues and purples. The painting is expected to fetch between $25,000 and $35,000. Another Sandzén, In the Mountains, Manitou, Colorado, 1925, is set at $15,000 to $25,000. Harvey’s Reflection of Old New York, an evening scene of the iconic city in times long past, is estimated at $40,000 to $60,000. Another Western lot in the sale is a 1925 woodcut by Gustave Baumann titled Rain in the Mountains, which has a presale estimate of $8,000 to $12,000.
The sale takes place Tuesday, May 10. —
American Art
May 10, 2022
Heritage Auctions, 2801 W. Airport Freeway, Dallas, TX 75261
(877) 437-4824, www.ha.com
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