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Western Paintings and Sculpture including Contemporary Native American Art Session I
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- Sale 835
Live
| Denver
May 6 | 8:00 AM MDT
Live
| Denver
Sale 835
| Denver
| Denver
Estimate$3,000 – $5,000
Provenance:
Settler's West, Tucson, Arizona
Private Collection, acquired from the above in 2008
“There is a lot of truth in ‘Paint what you know,’” David Halbach says, and taking this advice has served him well throughout his career. Halbach studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles under Millard Sheets, and, after a stint in the Navy, went to work as a Disney animator, where he counted Lady and the Tramp among his credits. Halbach turned to teaching and easel painting and has made a particular study of Hopi ceremonies in his atmospheric watercolors that find echoes in artists as disparate as Donald Teague and Peter Moran. The Laqan, or “Squirrel” Katsina, appears in dances and can also “challenge any woman to take anything from him that she thinks worth having.” (Wright, Kachinas, p. 112)
-James D. Balestrieri
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