On August 7, Bonhams will present an exceptional auction of California and Western Paintings & Sculpture, which includes 142 California Impressionist, Fauvist and Tonalist styles by artists such as William Wendt, Guy Rose, Joseph Kleitsch, Joseph Raphael, Edgar Payne, Selden Connor Gile, Armin Hansen and Granville Redmond. The Pacific Northwest is also represented in a special collection of early 20th century Alaskan landscapes by Sydney Laurence and Eustace Paul Ziegler, and the American West with works by Joseph Henry Sharp, Maynard Dixon, and Edward Borein. Leading the sale is Patriarchs of the Grove by William Wendt (1865-1946), a painting distinguished by its early provenance and extensive publication history (estimate: $250,000-350,000). Images of Patriarchs of the Grove dominated the art scene of Southern California from just after the Great War until the dawn of the Great Depression. It was reproduced in the most respected pu
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