February 2025 Edition

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Jackson Hole Art Auction | February 14-15, 2025 | Online

Winter Sale

Jackson Hole Art Auction’s online sale offers more than 400 Western and wildlife lots to bidders.

Valentine’s Day will offer Western art collectors a chance to show their love when Jackson Hole Art Auction presents its Winter 2025 Online Auction. The two-session sale will take place on February 14 and 15, with an estimated 435 lots available to bidders.

“Although this is our online auction, it’s comparable to our big sale in September,” says managing auction partner Kevin Doyle. “We will have lots of great material from all the categories we’re known to offer, including wildlife, landscapes, cowboy art and so much more. The beauty of these sales is we offer the same great material, but it’s almost always at a more accessible price point. The average lot is down near the $5,000 price range, so we are expecting to see lots of bidding throughout the sale.”

Bob Kuhn (1920-2007), White-Tailed Jackrabbit and Coyote, oil on board, 15½ x 19 in. Estimate: $15/25,000Doyle adds that the February 2024 online sale broke $1 million and saw a surge of registrants that broke records at the Wyoming-based auction house. “We are expecting to see even more registered bidders for the 2025 online sale,” Doyle adds.

The February sale will feature a wide variety of private consignors, as well as several named collections, including the first part of a collection called Titans of the American West from KSA Industries: A Bud Adams Company. Adams was a prominent Western art collector who owned the Tennessee Titans football team. He died in 2013, and some of his collection went to the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. Other pieces, including works from his corporate collection, have been offered at sales all around the country. Jackson Hole Art Auction will offer 38 works in the February sale with additional pieces, including major works, in the September live sale in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.


Joni Falk, Where Moccasins Tread, oil on canvas, 47½ x 23½ in. Estimate: $10/20,000

Artists from the Adams collection represented in the February sale include Joe Beeler, Tony Eubanks, James Boren and others. The September sale will feature pieces by William R. Leigh, Joseph Henry Sharp and Eanger Irving Couse, among others. “Adams was a phenomenal collector, sort of in the vein of T. Boone Pickens. He knew what he liked and acquired the best examples. We should have some blockbusters from his collection,” Doyle says.

Frank McCarthy (1924-2002), The Coup, 1977, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in. Estimate: $12/18,000

The February sale will feature Bob Kuhn’s White-Tailed Jackrabbit and Coyote, which shows off Kuhn’s ability to create engaging and active compositions that draw the viewer into the action. The work shows a dramatic chase that is built around a twisted tree limb that cuts through the center of the painting. The work is estimated at $15,000 to $25,000. Other wildlife works include Tucker Smith’s 2010 elk painting Crossing the Hoback, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000, and Robert Bateman’s 2015 Ram, estimated at $12,000 to $18,000.

Tucker Smith, Crossing the Hoback, 2010, oil on canvas, 12 x 16 in. Estimate: $10/15,000


Phil Philbeck, Springtime in the Tetons, 2012, oil on canvas, 38¼ x 76 in. Estimate: $20/40,000

G. Harvey, always a bidder favorite, will be represented by Ahead of the Storm,a small work that has many of the quintessential motifs of a Harvey painting: cowboy and horses riding straight toward the viewer, a yellow slicker on the rider and less-than-ideal weather, which reinforces the grit and determination of the cowboy figure. The work is estimated at $10,000 to $20,000.


 Works featuring Native American subjects include The Coup, Frank McCarthy’s 1977 oil painting, estimated at $12,000 to $18,000, and Joni Falk’s Where Moccasins Tread,a narrow 47-inch-tall work showing a winter camp along an icy creek. The Falk painting is expected to fetch between $10,000 and $20,000, though it could easily surpass that based on the quality of the painting.

Robert Bateman, Ram, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 14 x 25 in. Estimate: $12/18,000

Also being offered are two works by Norval Morrisseau, a First Nations artist of the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek Band of the Ojibwe Nation. The modern painter, who died in 2007, will be represented in the sale by two works showing abstracted figures in bold colors: Sacred Bear and the Great Migration (est. $15/25,000) and Mother of Serpents (est. $15/25,000).

The sale will also feature work from the Bob and Curtice McCloy Collection, including pieces by Tim Shinabarger, Tucker Smith, Ken Carlson and others.

Norval Morrisseau (Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek, 1932-2007), Sacred Bear and the Great Migration, acrylic on canvas, 34 x 57 in. Estimate: $15/25,000

The auction will be held entirely online, although there will be a preview in Jackson Hole, where most of the work will be viewable prior to the sale. Contact the auction house for details about previewing the art. The auctioneer will be Doyle, who admits it transports him back into an earlier part of his career. “It’s going to take me back to my training days at Sotheby’s,” he says. “It’s going to be fun.” —

G. Harvey (1933-2017), Ahead of the Storm, 1996, oil on board, 9 x 12 in. Estimate: $10/20,000

Winter 2025 Online Auction
February 14-15, 2025
Jackson Hole Art Auction
130 E. Broadway, Jackson, WY 83001
(866) 549-9278, www.jacksonholeartauction.com 

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