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Collectors will have the opportunity to own one
or all three Larry Zabel pieces, one being an 18"
x 24" oil on canvas titled Happy Hour at Jake's
Camp. ese pieces of Zabel's work are considered
all-time collectors' favorites.
Zabel focused on cowboys and American Indians
and painted a wide variety of wildlife in Montana,
where he lived until he died in 2012. Zabel's
art, prints, and posters earned him numerous
awards, including Best Painting at the Charlie
Russell Auction Show and Artist of the Year at the
Southern Maryland Wildlife Festival.
Harvey omas Dunn's High Country, an
illustrative art piece, is expected to garner lots of
aention from bidders. e painting was featured
in the Saturday Evening Post, January 1908 edition.
Dunn grew up on a homestead in South Dakota
where work was hard from sunrise to sunset. He
earned money by plowing neighbor's fields with
horses, saving enough money to enroll in college.
He worked his way through several art schools in
the following years and came across one professor
who encouraged him to take up illustration for
magazines. He caught a break with the Saturday
Evening Post where he had an affiliation for years.
During World War I, he joined the Army and went
to France as an Army illustrator, capturing the
action on the front lines. Even when he returned
to the states in 1919, he continued to paint war
pictures that had been etched in his mind.
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Bob Scriver (1914-1999)(CA) - Lewis & Clark
17" x 12" x 12" Bronze
Harvey Thomas Dunn (1884-1952)
High Country • 36" x 24" Oil on Canvas
Don Oelze (b. 1965) - Unwelcome Guests • 34" x 48" Oil on Canvas
