SCOTTSDALE ART AUCTION
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Aconsortium 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 Newyork City) and Brad Richardson (Legacy Galleries of Scottsdale 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. Frost has been instrumental in building significant public and private collections of historically important Western art throughout the country. Richardson’s 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 Masters of the American West exhibition and sale at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles.
“Combining our various fields of expertise and taking advantage of our geographic diversity, we should be able to provide a valuable service to collectors and artists throughout the United States,” says Richardson. Highly regarded for his knowledge of significant Western American masters,” Frost says, “Art auctions are fundamental to the art market. 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.”
In recent years, Richardson has noted 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.”
Upcoming Auctions Annual Live Auction
April 12-13, 2024
Online Auction
August 3, 2024