Visual Art | Wanted List

Thomas Minckler Fine Art combines both an aesthetic and intellectual approach to acquiring paintings and prints. Art celebrates the explorative spirit of the American West and the emotional energy put forth in the 19th and first half of the 20th Century. Our inventory encompasses three aspects of paintings, watercolors, drawings, etchings and lithographs executed during this period.

Firstly, the classical artists who recorded early exploration and expeditions of the West as exemplified in the work of George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, William Cary, Thomas Moran, and Alfred Jacob Miller.

The second category consists of artists that encapsulated the different lifestyles emerging in the American West. There were the Cowboys and Indians painted by C.M. Russell, Bill Gollings, Ed Borein, Frank Tenney Johnson and Will James. In addition, there were the artists Phillip R. Goodwin and Carl Rungius that captured the emerging sporting life and Henry Farny and W.R. Leigh who painted the Native American Indians.

Thirdly, there were the artists such of the Taos School of Art including J.H. Sharp, Ernest Blumenschein, E.I. Couse and others that responded to having access to remarkably different subject matter. These new landscapes and people provided them the opportunity to differentiate themselves from their European counterparts. All of this diverse creative output reflects the pioneering spirit of the American West.