Bradford’s Auction Gallery, Codes Longhorn, oil on canvas, ca. 1995, 35 x 35 in., by Ed Mell (1942-2024). SOLD: $96,750 Left: Bradford’s Auction Gallery, Man & Dog #1, acrylic on canvas, ca. 1992, 82 ¼ x 70 ¼ in., by Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937-2005). SOLD: $75,250 Bradford’s Auction Gallery, The Rattlesnake, cast No. 65, Roman Bronze Works NY, ca. 1918, 24 x 17 ½ x 11 in., by Frederic Remington (1861-1909). SOLD: $200,250

Bradford’s Auction Gallery is a leadin Arizona-based auction house specializing in fine art, Western and Native American artifacts, estate jewelry, luxury timepieces, coins and currency, firearms and rare collectibles. Founded in 2019, Bradford’s has rapidly grown into one of the Southwest’s most visible and trusted auction platforms, attracting more than 35,000 bidders across more than 80 countries.

Briscoe Western Art Museum, Logan Pass, oil on panel, 23 x 40 in., by Kyle Ma; Briscoe Western Art Museum, Morning Song, oil on panel, 12 x 9 in., by Eric Bowman; Briscoe Western Art Museum, Mighty Might, bronze, 17 x 9 ½ x 8 in., by Stefan Savides.

The Briscoe Western Art Museum preserves and presents the art, history and culture of the American West through engaging exhibitions, educational programs and public events from the heart of San Antonio’s famous River Walk. The museum is celebrating its 25th annual Night of Artists Exhibition and Art Sale in March, featuring works from today’s leading contemporary artists available through a live auction, a “luck of the draw” sale and a small works sale. The live auction will be streamed online March 27, with bidding available by proxy, by phone and online. Works in the luck-of-the-draw and small works sales may also be purchased by proxy.

Top: The Russell in Great Falls, Montana. Bottom: C.M. Russell Museum, The Beginning of the End, oil, 40 x 60 in., by Luke Frazier. C.M. Russell Museum, Winter Haywagon, oil, 20 x 20 in., by R. Tom Gilleon.

Western Art Week in Great Falls, Montana, is a celebration of creativity, community and legacy—and the C.M. Russell Museum is at its center. Guests are invited to start the festivities at the Art Preview Party, where guests enjoy an exclusive first look at the artwork featured in First Strike and the Russell Live Auction. Feel the energy at Art in Action, the museum’s signature take on the “quickdraw,” where renowned artists create live and share insights into their process. Then, dive into the vibrant world of contemporary Western art at First Strike, an auction dedicated to today’s leading and emerging talents. The week culminates in the highly anticipated Russell Live Auction, showcasing a curated mix of historic masterpieces and contemporary works. This premier event is a must for serious collectors and Western art enthusiasts alike. 

Top: Copley Fine Art Auctions in Pembroke, Massachusetts. Copley Fine Art Auctions, The Hunter’s Return, oil on canvas, 24 x 29 in.,  by Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936). Estimate: $75/125,000. Bottom: Copley Fine Art Auctions, After the Buffalo Hunt, oil on canvas, 29½ x 45¼ in., by William de la Montagne Cary (1840-1922). Estimate: $50/70,000

Copley Fine Art Auctions specializes in 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century American, sporting, Western and wildlife paintings, bronzes and decoys. The firm handles works by Frederic Remington, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bob Kuhn, Philip R. Goodwin, Lynn Bogue Hunt, Carl Rungius, Eanger Irving Couse, Frank W. Benson, Ogden Pleissner, Aiden Lassell Ripley and A.B. Frost, among others. 

Top: Freeman’s, Indians on the Plains, 1903, watercolor and gouache on paperboard, 7 ⅝ x 20 ⅛ in., by Charles M. Russell (1864-1926). Western and Contemporary Native American Art auction, November 2025. Estimate: $150/250,000 SOLD: $191,000. Bottom: Far left: Freeman’s, Distant Village, 1890, gouache on paper, 10 ¼ x 7 ½ in., by Henry Farny (1847-1916). Western and Contemporary Native American Art auction, November 2025. Estimate: $150/250,000 SOLD: $216,400 . Freeman’s, Land of Sage and Cedar, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in., by E. Martin Hennings (1886-1956). Western and Contemporary Native American Art auction, November 2025. Estimate: $120/180,000  SOLD: $152,900

Freeman’s is a premier American auction house offering services in multiple categories including fine art, jewelry, design, books and manuscripts, furniture, decorative arts, antiquities, couture and Asian works of art. With 16 regional locations nationwide, the firm provides auctions, appraisals, private sales and art advisory services, connecting clients to the global art market. The Western and wildlife art department specializes in handling historic and contemporary Western art including works by Western pioneering artists, Taos Society Founders, living and deceased Cowboy Artists of America, New Mexico modernists and established Southwestern artists. Other regional landscape and figural works by artists from the Western states and Colorado are among the firm’s featured consignments. 

Clockwise from far left: Heritage Auctions, Navajo Trader, oil on canvas, 28 x 22 in., by William R. Leigh (1866-1955). Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas. Heritage Auctions, American Portrait with Horse, 1975, oil on canvas, 80 x 68 in., by Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937-2005).

Heritage Auctions is one of the world’s largest and most respected auction houses, renowned for its expertise in fine art, collectibles, jewelry and rare historical artifacts. Heritage has grown into a global leader in the auction industry, operating offices and showrooms across major cities in the United States and internationally. The company is particularly recognized for its innovation in online bidding technology, which has made auctions more accessible to collectors worldwide. Heritage Auctions conducts sales in 49 various categories, including fine art, luxury handbags, coins, comics, sports memorabilia, rare books and entertainment memorabilia (recently selling Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers for a record-breaking $32 million). Among its most dynamic divisions, the Western art department has gained acclaim for showcasing the rich artistic traditions of the American West, featuring renowned painters and sculptors who capture the region’s landscapes, culture and spirit. Through record-setting sales and expertly curated collections, Heritage has become a premier destination for Western art enthusiasts and collectors worldwide. With a commitment to integrity, transparency and customer service, the firm has built a strong reputation among both buyers and sellers. Heritage’s combination of expert appraisers, advanced technology and global reach allows it to achieve record-breaking results and attract a diverse clientele, from seasoned collectors to first-time bidders. 

Top: Jackson Hole Art Auction in Wyoming. Bottom: Jackson Hole Art Auction, Start of the Roundup, 1898, watercolor on paper, 14 ½ x 20 ½ in., by Charles M. Russell (1864-1926).  Estimate: $180/250,000 SOLD: $720,000. Jackson Hole Art Auction, Pronghorn Antelope, ca. 1900, oil on canvas, 29 ¼ x 46 in., by Carl Rungius (1869-1959). Estimate: $200/300,000 SOLD: $780,000

Jackson Hole Art Auction continues to set the benchmark for American art auctions, now under new ownership in its 20th year. With its September 2025 sale achieving record-breaking results, JHAA confirms its position as a market leader and destination for high-quality works in the Western, wildlife, sporting, Native American, landscape and figurative genres. Featuring renowned historical and contemporary artists such as Bob Kuhn, C.M. Russell, Carl Rungius, G. Harvey, Joseph Henry Sharp, John Cowan, Frederic Remington, Billy Schenck, Howard Terpning and Mark Maggiori, among many others. Year-round, the auction house’s expansive 15,000-square-foot Jackson Hole gallery buzzes with auctions, exclusive exhibitions and private sales, giving bidders a front-row seat to the action. 

Top: John Moran Auctioneers, Saguaro cacti in an Arizona landscape, 1944, oil on canvas, 14 x 20 in., by Dale Nichols (1904-1995). Estimate: $6/8,000  SOLD: $22,860. John Moran Auctioneers, Road to the Mountains (Santa Catalina Range), 1943, oil on canvas laid to artist's board, 16 x 20 in., by  Maynard Dixon (1875-1946). Estimate: $50/70,000 SOLD: $88,900. Bottom: John Moran Auctioneers, At the End of the Rope, 1919, gouache, watercolor, and pencil on illustration board, 13¼ x 19½ in., by Charles M. Russell (1864-1926). Estimate: $120/180,000 SOLD: $285,750

Since 1969, John Moran Auctioneers has been uniting buyers and sellers of decorative and fine art, jewelry, fine furnishings and more. Moran’s quarterly California & American Fine Art auctions showcase works by artists like Guy Rose, Edgar Payne, Frank Tenney Johnson, Joseph Henry Sharp, Eanger Irving Couse, Oscar E. Berninghaus, Cyrus Dallin, Edward Borein, Olaf Weighorst, Armin Hansen, Maynard Dixon, Thomas Hill, Sydney Laurence, Oscar Howe, Bill Anton and many others. From humble beginnings more than five decades ago, John Moran Auctioneers has evolved into a trusted, full-service auction house with international reach. The auction house’s team of experienced specialists provides collectors or their clients with the highest level of service. They offer a customizable boutique approach, whether you are seeking a free auction valuation, a formal appraisal or an estate liquidation plan. 

From left: Lone Star Art Auction, Night Sentinel, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in., by Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939). SOLD: $120,000. Lone Star Art Auction, Night Sentinel, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 in., by Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939). SOLD: $120,000. Lone Star Art Auction, The Warmth of Friendships, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in., by G. Harvey (1933-2017). SOLD: $120,000

The Lone Star Art Auction is the largest live art auction in Texas specializing in the best American, Western and Texas fine art of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Presented by Great American West and Phil Berkebile Jr., the Lone Star Art Auction brings buyers, collectors and sellers of historic and contemporary fine art together in Dallas each fall for a highly entertaining two-day event.

Top: A view of the crowd at a past March in Montana. Bottom: March in Montana Auction and Dealer Show, Below the Three Forks, watercolor, 9 ½ x 13 ½ in., by Edgar S. Paxson (1852-1919). Estimate: $8/12,000. March in Montana Auction and Dealer Show, Leopard, acrylic on board, 18 x 26 in., by Bob Kuhn (1920-2007). Estimate: $40/60,000

The 39th annual March in Montana Auction and Dealer Show returns to the Great Falls Elks Club in March 2026, uniting collectors, dealers and art enthusiasts for one of the nation’s leading Western art events. The sale will offer roughly 700 lots and a vibrant dealer show celebrating the art, artifacts and spirit of the American West.

Top: A view of the Old West auction room. Bottom: Las Vegas Old West & Native American Art Show & Auction, Pewter Inlaid Pipe Tomahawk, 24½ in. Estimate: $4/6,000. Las Vegas Old West & Native American Art Show & Auction, Unknown title, depicting a historical meeting of Native American leaders, oil on canvas, 30¼ x 40¼ in., by Astley David Montague Cooper (1856-1924). Estimate: $8/12,000

Morphy Auctions conducts two Old West and Native American art auctions per year. The January event runs concurrently with the re-branded Old West and Native American Art Show, and the Las Vegas Antique Arms Show held in Las Vegas. The summer event is held in Santa Fe and runs in conjunction with the Old West and Native American Art Show and Auction.

Top: Rock Island Auction Company, Battle of Washita, 1888, oil on academy board, by Frederic Remington (1861-1909). SOLD: $323,125. Rock Island Auction Company, Honest Woods, 1909, oil on canvas, by Philip R. Goodwin 1881-1935). SOLD: $76,375. Bottom: Rock Island Auction Company, Colt Single Action Army known as “Black Beauty”, 1888, by Louis D. Nimschke (1832-1904). SOLD: $1.6 million

“Not all art is framed” rings true every day at Rock Island Auction Company. While well acquainted with Western and American artists such as Frederic Remington, L.A. Huffman and Philip R. Goodwin, their offerings more frequently include the artisans who engraved and inlaid fine arms from multiple eras and countries. With a strong emphasis on 19th-century American artists, collectors can expect to find renowned engravers such as L.D. Nimschke, Gustave Young, Conrad Ulrich, Rudolph Kornbrath and many modern artisans who put their work on the steel canvases of Colt, Winchester, Marlin, Smith & Wesson and more.

Santa Fe Art Auction, Rising Moon Over Chimayo, 2013, oil on board, 12 x 9 in., by Kim Douglas Wiggins. Part of the upcoming Art of the West auction. Estimate: $6/9,000. Santa Fe Art Auction, Untitled (Single Yei), monoprint, 49¼ x 33¼ in., by Tony Abeyta Diné (Navajo). Part of the upcoming Native Arts auction. Estimate: $1.5/2,500. Santa Fe Art Auction’s gallery.

Since its inception more than 30 years ago, Santa Fe Art Auction now stands as the oldest, most venerable auction house in the Southwest, positioned in the contemporary Baca Railyard District of Santa Fe—the earliest capital city in the United States and long regarded as the region’s largest art hub. A leader in classic Southwestern, Western and Native American art, as well as contemporary art and photography, Santa Fe Art Auction has consistently set record hammer prices for prominent classic and contemporary artists. Notable artists have included Dorothy Brett, Gerard Curtis Delano, Gustave Baumann, Tony Abeyta, Albert Bierstadt and Fritz Scholder, in addition to European modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and Fernand Léger. With the application of cutting-edge technology, expansion of in-house expertise and 16,000 square-feet of modern open showroom space, Santa Fe Art Auction has serviced collections of increasing size and importance, from the recent presentation of the Collection of John P. Coolidge, director of Harvard’s Fogg Museum, to the collections of Gregory Warren Nelson, Charles Loloma, Christopher Cardozo, Patricia Janis Broder and Joseph Pytka. 

 A consortium of leading American art dealers has organized a Western art auction to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the spring of each year. Under the banner, Scottsdale Art Auction, dealers Mike Frost (Bartfield Galleries of New York City) and Brad Richardson (Legacy Galleries of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, joined together and presented their first sale on April 2, 2005, at Richardson’s Legacy Gallery on Main Street in downtown Scottsdale. Frost has been instrumental in building significant public and private collections of historically important Western art throughout the country, and Richardson’s Legacy Gallery has become a national leader representing several members of the Cowboy Artists of America, National Academy of Western Art and a number of exhibiting artists from the annual Prix de West in Oklahoma City and Masters of the American West at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.

Top: Scottsdale Art Auction, The Master Potter, oil, 24 x 29 in., by Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936). Estimate: $150/250,000. Scottsdale Art Auction, Scourge of the Northern Plains, 27 x 40¼ in., by Frank McCarthy (1924-2002). Estimate: $30/50,000. Bottom: The interior of Scottsdale Art Auction in Arizona.

“Combining our various fields of expertise and taking advantage of our geographic diversity, we should be able to provide a valuable service to collectors and artists throughout the United States. Mike Frost is highly regarded for his knowledge of significant western American masters. Art auctions are fundamental to the art market,” says Richardson. “They are the trading floor for the secondary market and, in most cases, help to establish collector confidence and set the market for an artist’s work. I have noted over the past few years that premium works from major collections and artists’ studios have tended to gravitate to the auctions, and we believe that we are ideally situated to serve that process.” 

Top: Vogt Auction Galleries ready for a sale.Bottom: Vogt Auction Galleries, Punta Alta, oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in., by G. Harvey (1933-2017). Estimate: $30/50,000 SOLD: $46,200. Vogt Auction Galleries, Assiniboine Warrior, 1922, pen & ink with watercolor & gouache on paper, 1922, 10 x 8 in., by Charles M. Russell (1864-1926). Estimate: $15/25,000 SOLD: $33,600

Vogt Auction Galleries is one of the top independent auction houses in Texas with more than $15 million in annual sales. For 50 years, Vogt has been a leader in the growing Texas and Western art auction market, and annually hosts specially curated Texas & Western Art auction events in the spring and fall. Sales often include artwork by Julian Onderdonk, Robert Onderdonk, Jose Arpa, Porfirio Salinas, G. Harvey, Jose Vives-Atsara, Dawson Dawson-Watson, Mary Bonner, Frank Reaugh, John Nieto, Mark Maggiori, Dave McGary, John Coleman, Helen Hunter, Manuel Garza, Rolla Taylor, Robert Wood and more. 

Top: A view of Western Trading Post’s gallery. Bottom: Western Trading Post, Cactus, 2004, horse sculpture, 71 x 87 in. (horse), 36 in. (base), by Simon Donovan. Estimate: 5/$10,000. Western Trading Post, Rare second phase Navajo Chief's blanket, ca. 1870s-80s, 49½ x 56½ in., by an unknown Navajo weaver. Estimate: $25/35,000

Western Trading Post is passionate about preserving and perpetuating the rich heritage and history of the American West. The auction house began its journey in 1877 with an authentic trading post in the Arizona Territory. Today, it is a family-owned and operated auction and gallery with headquarters in Wickenburg, northwest of Phoenix.