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Western & Contemporary Native American Art
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- Sale 1239
Live
| Denver
Nov 1 | 10:00 AM MDT
Live
| Denver
Sale 1239
| Denver
| Denver
Estimate$8,000 – $12,000
Provenance:
Sold: Jackson Hole Art Auction, Jackson, Wyoming, September 15, 2012, Lot 12-124
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited:
Prix de West Invitational, National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2002
John Moyers is one of the preeminent contemporary painters of the American West. Moyers studied in California, but a workshop in British Columbia taught by Robert Lougheed, where he painted animals en plein air set his course. It was there that Moyers met his future wife, Terri, an exceptional artist in her own right. The son of Cowboy Artists of America painter William Moyers, John Moyers is himself a longtime CAA member and past president of the organization. Unlike many Western artists, John Moyers paints both the historic and present-day West. In Solitary Song, however, the viewer feels the subtle influence of the Taos Founders—Bert Phillips and E. Martin Hennings most of all—in the lyrical treatment of the flutist and the impressionistic yellow aspens that surround him. Moyers seems to want us to get as lost in the scene—and in the past—as the musician is lost in his melody.
- James D. Balestrieri
Framed dimensions: 71 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches
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Alexandria Dreas
Specialist, Head of Sale, Western and Contemporary Native American Art
