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Howard Terpning – It’s Been a Long Day (1976) · Oil on Canvas, 24 x 34 inches · $321,300
– Courtesy Jackson Hole Art Auction –
Last year, when I recapped 2019 and trends in Western collecting, I focused on the sales of many splendid, comprehensive holdings gathered by discriminating collectors that became available for new owners. Although the tendency continued in 2020, one part of the equation changed due to new rules imposed by COVID-19. Despite hurdles created by the pandemic, dealers and sellers alike found ways to continue through online means and other innovations. Although some of the excitement of live auctions was lost, extraordinary and varied archival materials, art and artifacts brought vicarious thrills to bidders and observers.
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The Hallson Icelandic Lutheran Church was constructed in 1897 and was named for Johann Hallson, who donated the land, bell, altar and money to the congregation. Today, the church has been preserved as part of the Icelandic State Park, just four miles from its original location on Highway 5, near Cavalier, North Dakota.
– Courtesy North Dakota Tourism –
Thank You for Helping Me Through 2020
There aren’t many jobs in which you’re lucky enough to make friends as you work out of your home office, connected only by a telephone.
But this column makes me lucky enough!
It takes me into the world of imaginative folks who respect and appreciate the people and pioneers of the Old West. I love how they take hold and won’t let go just like the folks they’re honoring with their preservation efforts.
By HELEN DALRYMPLE The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis is one of the most significant representations of traditional American Indian culture. Issued in limited edition from 1907 to 1930, the 20-volume set is organized by tribes and culture areas encompassing the Great Plains, Great Basin, Plateau Region, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The online collection presents all 2,226 published images, with comprehensive identifying data, including plate numbering, dimensions and the original captions by Curtis. The source materials for this collection are housed at Northwestern University Library.
The career of Irving Fine (1914-1962), composer conductor, writer and academic, is documented in the Library of Congress Music Division by approximately
5 to See: Digital Shows
From Taipei to Istanbul, these shows deal with themes of empathy, common perception and communication across borders. Experience global art and culture this winter with
Aestheticaâs selection of five must-see online exhibitions.
, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
This yearâs Taipei Biennial, co-curated by philosopher Bruno Latour, explores the increasingly fractured ways in which different cultures experience ideas of the global â whether they conceive of the world on ecological, economic or nationalist terms, for example â and the need to resolve these differences in an era of gathering ecological catastrophe. For Latour and his collaborator, curator Martin Guinard, âit is as if there were several versions of Earth, with properties and capacities that are so different that they are like distinctive planets.â The physical exhibition takes the form of a âplanetariumâ, with different sections conceptualised as different versio