7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW

*Price Shown is the Sale Price

AUCTIONING HIGH END ARTWORK ON MAY 30TH FROM 5pm to 9pm MST

ARTISTS INCLUDE: N.C.WYETH,  GERALD CASSIDY, DAVID BURLIUK, PATROCINO BARELA, EDITH BRISCOE STEVENS, ELIZABETH CATLETT, PABLITA VELARDE, OLD MASTER DRAWINGS, HUNT DIEDERICH, ANTON MAUVE, WILL HUTCHINS,  MAX LUNA, HOWARD COOK,  HERBERT DUTTON, JOSE DOLORES LOPEZ, NAVAJO RUGS, NELL DORR, EDWARD WESTON, PICASSO, DIEGO RIVERA, JOY LAVILLE, CHARLES DANA GIBSON,  ARTHUR B. DAVIES, MARGARET TAFOYA,   GISELLA LOEFFLER, ANTHONY THIEME, KATHE KOLLEWITZ, EDITH HEAD, KENNETH M CHAPMAN, LEON GASPARD, ALSON CLARK, EUGENE HIGGINS, FREDERIC REMINGTON, HENRI CROSS, CONSTANCE MACKY, WALT KUHN,  JOSEPH SACKS, JULES PASCIN, WARREN ROLLINS, E. I. COUSE

DANIEL HERNANDEZ MORILLO,  EDITH WHITE, GILBERT ATENCIO, MAX KUEHNE, SIGMUND MENKES, JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG, JOHN SINGER SARGENT, JACK WILKINSON SMITH, CARL WOOLSEY, J J ENNEKING,  MICHEL VEDANI, GERALD NAILOR, JOSEPH MEEKER, HARRISON BEGAY, MOSE TOLLIVER, REGINALD MARSH, THOMAS HART BENTON, CHARLES BUCKLES FALLS, OLIVE RUSH, JOHN FERY, ANNA SKEELE,  ARNOLD RONNEBECK, RUDOLPH DIRKS, TONY ABEYTA, GENE KLOSS, HENRY REDMORE,  LOUIS SIEGREIST, SAMUEL FULTON, JULES LEPAGE, BART. ASSTEYN, ARTHUR RACKHAM, ELEANOR COLBURN, PETER HURD, JEAN MANNHEIM, ODA KAZUMA, MAURICE LOGAN, HANNIBAL ALKHAS, JUNIUS SLOAN, MAX LUNA, FRANK PENFOLD, LILLY MARTIN SPENCER

FRANK SHAPLEIGH, JOSEPH SHARP,  WILLIAM SHERWOOD, WALTON LEADER, ROSSO FORINTINO, ILA MCAFEE, CLAUDE HOWELL, ZOLTAN SEPESHY, WILL SHUSTER, LOUISE DE GUIMARD, NELLIE KNOPF,  MAX ARNOLD, ROBERT MARC,  LUKE CLELLEN, NAMPEYO, DULAH KREHBIEL, ALBERT KREHBIEL

7TH ANNUAL SPRING SALE NOW

ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE .............ILA MCAFEE.............'HORSES GRAND CANYON', OIL ON BOARD, 20" x 24".............

STUNNING HORSES IN LANDSCAPE.............

This is a 20" x 24" Original and Vintage oil on board by the important Taos, NM painter Ila McAfee, 1897-1995. This is a view of two horses on the rim of the Grand Canyon. Signed at lower right and again on McAfee's White Horse Studio label on back with the title, along with the label of the art gallery at the Taos Inn. The painting has been in the family of the Taos Inn since the 1940s. Fine condition. Unframed.

The Biography Follows:

Ila Mae McAfee was born near Gunnison, Colorado in 1897 and grew up on a ranch.  From a very early age, she loved horses and began to draw them as soon as she could hold a pencil. She attended classes at the West Lake School of Art in Los Angeles and the Art Institute of Chicago where, writes Robert Parsons, "she studied and worked under the tutelage of Lorado Taft, a noted sculptor, and muralist James McBurney, whose assistant she eventually became. After some years she moved to New York City and attended the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. While in New York McAfee also worked as an illustrator and painted portraits of horses for wealthy owners and breeders."

Parsons continues: "It was during this period that she began receiving her first commissions for murals. But while McAfee must have found pleasure in these successes one imagines that the emotional pull of the west continued to exert a profound influence. While in Chicago McAfee had met and married fellow art student Elmer Turner, who also happened to be from Colorado. So when the pair decided where they wanted to pursue their artistic careers it was the west to which they returned, and found lifelong inspiration." During a trip to California to complete a mural in Los Angeles, the couple stopped in Taos and became so enamored with the beauty of the valley that they moved there soon after. McAfee dedicated her career to capturing the special qualities of the Taos landscape, painting and making prints in that area for 65 years. In 1993, she moved to Pueblo, Colorado, where she died in 1995.

Writes Parsons: "By artistic synthesis McAfee laid claim in an exceptional way to the landscape she had known since childhood. She was distinctive and very much a Westerner. Her long, prolific career exemplifies the trajectory of American art at the time, which was one of moving toward self-discovery, confidence and the delineation of an American aesthetic that embraced American themes. Few accomplished this with more authenticity than Ila McAfee."

As ever this is guaranteed 100% money back, to be as represented.