Huge T. Allen Lawson painting finds its forever home
T. Allen Lawson’s 97-inch-wide mixed media piece Black Angus has been sold to a private collection in Texas. The painting’s origins were with a cow skeleton offered to the artist by his neighbors. Once Lawson started working on it, he made the image lifesize so he could take bones and hold them up to the painting to check the cow’s scale and shape. One of the mediums he used was a water-soluble graphite pencil, as well as charcoal and a few strokes of oil pastel. “I can honestly say I learned more from approaching this project than any project I have attempted to date,” Lawson says. “I will never look at a cow in the field the same way. My understanding of what I’m looking at has been greatly enhanced.” Once it was purchased, the work had to be shipped to the client in a moving van due to its size.
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C. Michael Dudash painting is top sale at Settlers West show
On November 19, Settlers West Galleries in Tucson, Arizona, held the annual Great American West Show featuring hundreds of works available in a by-draw sale. One of the top sales from the evening was C. Michael Dudash’s Hey Oh!! My Brother, My Friend, an oil measuring 40 by 30 inches. The work, priced at $25,000, features a Native American rider raising his rifle in the air and signaling an unseen person down a rock-lined river. —
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