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THE SOUTHWEST’S LARGEST AND FASTEST GROWING AUCTION HOUSE

Specializing in American Western, Wildlife and Sporting Art

A consortium of leading American art dealers has organized a western art auction to be held in Scottsdale, Arizona in the spring of each year. Under the banner, Scottsdale Art Auction, dealers Mike Frost (Bartfield Galleries of New York City), and Brad Richardson (Legacy Galleries of Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico) joined together and presented their first sale on April 2, 2005 at Richardson’s Legacy Gallery on Main Street in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mike Frost, who has been instrumental in building significant public and private collections of historically important western art throughout the country and Brad Richardson whose Legacy Galleries have become a national leader representing several members of the Cowboy Artists of America, National Academy of Western Art, and a number of exhibiting artists from the annual Prix de West in Oklahoma City and Western Masters exhibition and sale at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.

“Combining our various fields of expertise,” Richardson commented, “and taking advantage of our geographic diversity, we should be able to provide a valuable service to collectors and artists throughout the United States.” “Mike Frost is highly regarded for his knowledge of significant western American masters,” he continued, “and Jack Morris of Morris Fine Arts is an established veteran in the field of art auctions.” “Art auctions are fundamental to the art market”, said Frost. “They are the trading floor for the secondary market and, in most cases, help to establish collector confidence and set the market for an artist’s work.” “I have noted, over the past few years”, Richardson added, “that premium works from major collections and artists’ studios have tended to gravitate to the auctions and we believe that we are ideally situated to serve that process.”

MICHAEL FROST

michael@scottsdaleartauction.com

J.N. BARTFIELD GALLERIES
PO BOX 2400, NEW YORK, NY 10021
(212) 245-8890

JACK A. MORRIS, JR.

jack@scottsdaleartauction.com

MORRIS FINE ARTS
79 BAYNARD COVE RD HILTON HEAD
ISLAND, SC 29928
(843) 247-2217

BRAD RICHARDSON

brad@scottsdaleartauction.com

THE LEGACY GALLERY
SCOTTSDALE
7178 MAIN ST., SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85251
(480) 945-1113

SANTA FE
225 CANYON RD, SANTA FE, NM 87501
(505) 986-9833

MANITOU GALLERIES
SANTA FE
123 W PALACE AVE, SANTA FE, NM 87501
(505) 986-0440