About This Auction

Freeman's June auction of Western and Wildlife Art, Including Contemporary Native American Art features a robust selection of works from prominent estates and private collections. The sale is led by exceptional examples from the Estates of Henry V. Nickel (Potomac, Maryland) and Richard and Deanna Freeland (Fort Wayne, Indiana), and includes masterworks of classic Western and Southwestern art by Hermon Atkins MacNeil, Henry F. Farny, Henry Mervin Shrady, and Eanger Irving Couse. Other highlights include Sunburst Crow Reservation, an important landscape by Joseph Henry Sharp; an attractive group of oils by John Neito; and offerings from Charles Schreyvogel, G. Harvey, Martin Grelle, and Richard Schmid. Paintings by western stalwarts Frederic Remington, Oscar Berninghaus, and Gerard Curtis Delano are also of note. The sale is rounded out by a broadly appealing group of contemporary and Native works by Allan Houser, Earl Biss, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.