The hammer falls May 25
Bidding online now, live auction begins 7 p.m. Tuesday
You know how it goes. After a long winter as you’re opening up the house, letting the crisp spring breeze waft through the open windows and doors, you look around and think to your self, “How in the name of all that’s holy did I accumulate so much stuff?!”
Add all of the items you’ve collected during the pandemic and the mountain just seems higher.
Same thing happens to businesses and nonprofits. In an email, Ron Usherwood of Taos Estate Sales said the company is partnering with Taos Habitat for Humanity, The Taos Community Foundation and local estates for a spring Taos Arts and Artifacts Auction.
“As leading nonprofits in the Taos community, Habitat for Humanity and Taos Community Foundation are often given beautiful, high-quality and collectible pieces of art from local patrons and artists to sell in support of their charitable programs,” Usherwood stated. “Both organizations have allowed Taos Estate Sales a chance to offer some of their donated pieces at auction.”
Additionally, over the past year Taos Estate Sales said it has accumulated some “fine examples of contemporary Taos and Northern New Mexico art. When holding an estate sale there are invariably items left over that are too precious to sell on the cheap. Those items are either returned to the owners or, as in the case of Taos Estate Sales, taken to their shop in an effort to find the best homes for the pieces. So, now that it’s spring it’s time for that crisp wind to blow through the shop as we try to find new owners for these great artworks.”
Included in the auction are such artists as William Acheff, John Suazo, Maria Martinez, Randall LaGro, RC Gorman, Mary Wood, Doug West, Peter Chinni, Dawning Pollen Shorty, Robert Daughters, Joe Garcia, Kathleen Smith, Andersen Kee, JD Challenger, Dolores Lewis, Lloyd Albright, Amado Pena, Ed Natiya, Thom Wheeler and many others. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will go to The Taos Community Foundation to support their granting programs and Taos Habitat for Humanity to support building affordable housing in the Taos community.
The online auction is open now for viewing and bidding and “the hammer falls” (translation: the actual sale begins) Tuesday (May 25) at 7 p.m. A special in-person, live preview of the art is going on now through May 24 at Taos Estate Sales’ shop, located at 226C Paseo del Pueblo Norte, in downtown Taos. For questions or if you need more information about the auction bidding process, you can go to the Taos Estate Sales website, taosestatesale.com or call the shop at (575) 613-0998.