Art of the American West
Sale Starts
Aug 12
12pmSale Ends
Aug 26
10amTerms & Conditions
https://www.johnmoran.com/conditions-of-sale/
John Moran Auctioneers
Description & Details
John Moran Auctioneers is pleased to present Art of the American West, featuring 349 lots of fresh-to-market material. Highlights include fine Pueblo pottery by renowned artists, Navajo silver jewelry, and vibrant 19th-century textiles, including Germantown weavings. Notable artworks include bronzes by Dave McGary and Western-themed paintings by Edward Borein, Carl Oscar Borg, Gary Carter, Ira Yeager, Dennis Doheny, Albert Groll, and Grace Carpenter Hudson, along with an extensive offering of Western wildlife art. Selections from the personal collection of Robert Day feature prominently, complemented by a selection of California and Southwest basketry, beadwork, storyteller figures, Hopi katsina and Civil war photography.






















![23
A group of Southwest Pueblo blackware pottery
Three works:
Anita L. Suazo (b. 1937, Santa Clara Pueblo)
A blackware melon bowl, late 20th century
Signed to base: Anita L. Suazo / Santa Clara Pueblo / [artist's cipher]
The low wide bowl with rounded ridges
3" H x 6.25" Dia.
Cavan Gonzales Tse-whang "Eagle Tail" (b.1970, San Ildefonso Pueblo)
A blackware jar with pictorial band, late 20th/21st century
Signed to base: Cavan Gonzales / "Eagle Tail"
The tapered jar with a band of slip-painted motifs including feathers, with scattered diminutive motifs to bodym and an inset coral bead
3.25" H x 4.5" Dia.
Lupita Martinez (1919-2006), San Ildefonso Pueblo)
A blackware jar with geometric band, mid/late 20th century
Signed (faintly) to base: Lupita Martinez
The tapered jar with slip-painted motifs to shoulder
3.25" H x 4.375" Dia.
3 pieces
Estimate: $400 - $600](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/5ef674dc-22b7-4550-b5cc-642c31a05aa5.jpg)









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Dan Namingha
(b. 1950, Hopi-Tewa)
"Ancient Images," 1980
Lithograph in colors on paper
Edition: A "bon a tirer" [good to pull/print] impression aside from the numbered edition of 100
Signed, titled, and inscribed "B.A.T.," all in pencil along the lower sheet edge; dated by repute; Stephen Britko of Naravisa Press, Santa Fe, NM, prntr./pub., with his blindstamp in the lower left corner
Image/Sheet: 15.25" H x 22.25" W
Estimate: $100 - $200](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/fe082ae6-c49e-4239-bc24-70be9312f091.jpg)








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A Roanhorse Navajo sterling silver and turquoise cuff bracelet
Late 20th/21st century, Diné
Stamped: Roanhorse / Sterling / 925 [likely for Henry Roanhorse or Calinda Roanhorse-Bowling]
A sterling three-wire cuff with a large cluster-set plaque featuring sawtooth bezel-set turquoise
7" total inner C x 3" H, with a 1.375" gap
103.0 grams gross
Estimate: $400 - $600](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/2c729258-a8d1-4a9a-8e62-4db038f46190.jpg)









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Grace Medicine Flower (b. 1938, Santa Clara Pueblo) & Camilio "Sunflower" Tafoya (1902-1995, Santa Clara Pueblo)
A polychrome sgraffito blackware and redware jar, late 20th century
With etched signatures to base: Grace Medicine Flower [flower cipher] / and / Camilio Tafoya
A shaped rounded jar or possibly seed pot with curvilinear etched serpent/wolf motif and redware etched medallions with mask motifs
3" H x 5" Dia.
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/e2c3fcfd-2b43-4583-96ed-dad9d7f2a8c7.jpg)


























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A. Kelly Pruitt
(1924-2009)
"A Time to be Old," 1968
Patinated bronze on rotating wood plinth
Signed, dated, and numbered in the casting: A. Kelly Pruitt / 1968 / 4-36; foundry mark: Hoka Hey [feather cipher]
Bronze: 14" H x 12" W x 8" D; Overall: 16" H x 14" W x 8.75" D
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/d2288f84-8b9a-4dbd-9a78-39c368338776.jpg)






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20th Century Taos School
Taos Indians on horseback with foal, in the style of Walter Ufer
Gouache and ink on sturdy, teal-colored, card stock
Signed with a stylized monogram in the lower left corner: LZS [?]
Sight: 19.5" H x 24.5" W
19.875" H x 25" W
Estimate: $600 - $800](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/07622631-40de-4c48-915e-cfb336662377.jpg)
![87
A Gustav Stickley music cabinet, no. 70
Circa 1912-1916; Eastwood, NY
With Stickley shop mark [joiner's compass]
The oak wood cabinet of mortise and tenon construction with splined panels, featuring an upper gallery above a single cabinet door with "hammered" amber glass panes between the mullions, with copper pull and lock escutcheon, revealing five adjustable shelves mounted on pegs
47.25" H x 20.25" W x 16.5" D
Estimate: $700 - $900](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/54f07413-a60a-41ab-99df-03a8fc58c134.jpg)
![88
A pair of Dirk Van Erp Pair hammered copper urns
Circa 1915-1977; San Francisco, CA
Each base signed: Dirk van Erp / San Francisco [open-box mark]
Each footed vessel with opposed lug handles
2 pieces
Each: 17.125" H x 6.625" W x 6" D
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/2b4dc84b-e3c2-4233-9b18-adbd9bdbef9c.jpg)







![96
An Hermès Brasilia leather saddle and accessories
Mid/late 2000s, France
Stamped to underside: E. Hermès / 45 491 [serial number] / Made in France; stamped to leather straps: Hermès / Paris; stamped to stirrups: Hermès; pad with label: Hermès / Paris
The saddle custom-made of natural tanned full grain leather, with branded grommets, rounded and padded flap, rounded cantle, branded stirrups and contoured orange quilted fabric pad, 16" seat, girth belt (125cm), four fixed martingale bridle leather straps, and two original Hermès dust bags and a saddle cover, together with a wood saddle stand bearing the D Arrow brand
Seat: 16"; Gullet width: 3.5"; Flaps: 13.5" H; Stand: 31" H x 18" W x 30" D
Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/364e33a8-9a93-40ae-ab7c-c908fc8a7ce8.jpg)

























































































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Marcia "Ant Woman" Fritz Rickey (1918-1991, Hopi-Tewa)
A polychrome pottery low bowl, early 21st century
Inscribed to underside: Marcia Fritz / [ant cipher] / Class 5 / Premium No. 501 / Award / Exhibitor No 18
The three-color bowl with red and brown parrot motif over a white slip ground to interior and brown and white banded feather motifs to exterior over a red wash
2.625" H x 10.625" Dia.
Estimate: $500 - $700](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/35fadf78-efe8-401d-a4ad-757bd7ba736e.jpg)


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Garnet Pavatea (1915-1981, Hopi-Tewa)
A polychrome pottery jar, mid/late 20th century
Signed to underside: Garnet Pavatea / Sichomovi / (Hopi) / [flying ant cipher]
The large three-color olla form jar with a wide band of curvilinear and geometric motifs
7" H x 9.25" W
Estimate: $500 - $700](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/0d2735a4-904b-4e23-b483-5ac2dd235fe7.jpg)








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Tayron Polequaptewa
(b. 1969, Hopi Sun Clan)
A Hopi Pueblo Honiwa Brown Bear katsina
Polychrome painted cottonwood, feathers, shearling, suede, shells, corn husk
With miniature shell and leather cord lacing, large feather headdress and bear paw claw motifs, signed to underside: Tay Polequaptewa / [artist's cipher]
14" H x 8" W x 4.5" D
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/b6449343-a15b-49e7-a9d2-b192b43d5c2f.jpg)
























































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A Hopi Salako Mana katsina
Late 20th/21st century; Hopi Pueblo
Signed to base: KM X [unknown artist]
In polychromed cottonwood with green mask, thread earrings, and three-point stepped tableta with elaborate feathers
16" H x 10" W x 3" D
Estimate: $200 - $300](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/442e0f98-0f5a-4993-a872-a4246f52b39b.jpg)



![259
Two Hopi Pueblo katsinas
Two works:
Clark Tenakhongva (b. 1956, Hopi-Third Mesa)
A Road Runner katsina, late 20th/21st century
Signed to underside: C.W.T. / !!
In polychromed cottonwood with attached feathers and fur to top of mask
12" H x 3.5" W x 3.5" D [including feathers]
Raynard "Tawma" Lalo (b. 1984, Hopi-Third Mesa)
A Bear katsina, early 21st century
Signed to underside with artist's Spider web cipher
In polychromed cottonwood with attached feathers to mask
12" H x 4" W x 3" D [including feathers]
2 pieces
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/290e177e-b2ee-40c6-a66f-a032aceb5dfb.jpg)
![260
A group of large Southwest katsina figures
Late 20th century
Three works:
Evelynnita Willie (b. 20th century)
A "Zuni Rain Priest" dancer figure with bow and arrow
Signed and titled to underside: Evelynnita Willie
In polychrome painted wood, with feather, fur, shell, and leather accents
22" H x 12.25" W x 11" D
Jacida Loley (b. 20th century, Navajo/Diné)
A "Medicine Man" dancer with feather fans
Signed, titled, and numbered to underside: Jacida L / 637934
In polychrome painted wood with feather, fur, and leather accents
18.5" H x 11.5" W x 8" D
F. Willie (b. 20th century, Navajo/Diné)
A "Hoop Dancer" katsina-style figure with elaborate feathers
Signed, titled, and numbered to underside: F. Willie / 401932 / [cipher]
In polychrome painted wood with feather, turquoise, fur, horsehair, and leather accents
18.5" H x 17" W x 13" D
3 pieces
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/cd5bb693-0472-4fdb-a87a-21cbf8345314.jpg)











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A small Zia Pueblo pottery dish
Mid-20th century
Unsigned, with faint pencil marks to underside: Zia / [illegible]
The three-color dish with roadrunner figure to interior and scalloped accents to rim interior
1" H x 5.125" Dia.
Estimate: $500 - $700](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/371c2e24-9d54-4bc9-aae1-b5552965efcb.jpg)


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Tina Garcia (1957-2005, Santa Clara Pueblo/San Juan Pueblo Ohkay Owingeh)
A large redware jar, late 20th century
Incised to underside: Tina Garcia / San Juan / Santa Clara / [cipher]
The ovoid form jar with three bearpaw motifs
6.5" H x 10" Dia.
Estimate: $600 - $900](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/81a1dbb1-4b9f-4487-945e-fbdd83c8aa95.jpg)







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Paula Estevan (b. 1967, Acoma Pueblo)
A polychrome pottery jar, early 21st century
Signed and inscribed to underside: P. Estevan / [four dot cipher] / Acoma, NM [illegible]
The three-color jar with wide body and red and black repeated triangle motifs in a swirling color schema, over a white slip ground
5.5" x 5.875"
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/ca2947ac-90ca-4851-ae42-3e43128d7dc9.jpg)






















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Robert Tenorio (b. 1950, Kewa/Santo Domingo Pueblo)
A polychrome pottery jar, late 20th/early 21st century
Incised to underside: [stars] Robert Tenorio / Santo Domingo Pueblo / NM
The three-color jar with orange and black banded feather and cloud motifs on a white slip ground
5.5" H x 8.375" Dia.
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/2bc573c9-78fb-43a1-b37e-c21fc77a9bab.jpg)









![316
A set of Mexican sterling silver and amethyst jewelry
Mid-20th century
Stamped: FD / Mexico / Sterling / 1026 [design number]
Comprising a sterling silver collar necklace with scrolled links set with carved amethyst mask motif teardrop and oval accents, with a pair of matching earrings
3 pieces
Necklace: 17" L x 1.75" H; Earrings: 1.75" H
131.8 grams gross
Estimate: $400 - $600](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/dde224b4-002f-4d2e-838a-d5bd37929331.jpg)
![317
A group of Southwest Zuni-style sterling silver and turquoise jewelry
Late 20th century
Three works:
A set of Henry Morris Navajo cluster-set turquoise jewelry
Henry Morris (b. 20th century, Diné)
Each stamped: HTM [conjoined] / Sterling
Comprising a cluster-set turquoise squash blossom-style link necklace with a central medallion and ten "blossoms" joined by paperclip silver links, with a matching cluster-set ring, 2 pieces
Necklace: 29" L x 2" Dia.; Ring: size 8
A pair of Zuni-style cluster-set turquoise earrings
Each stamped: VJP / Sterling
Each with a central medallion suspending a half plaque dangle, 2 pieces
Each: 2" H
4 pieces total
107.2 grams gross
Estimate: $500 - $700](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/e32ea7a3-1de3-474b-8309-029f2006a7c4.jpg)
![318
A Willie Yazzie Navajo storyteller silver concho belt
Willie A. Yazzie, Jr. (b. 20th century, Diné)
Late 20th/21st century
Stamped with medicine man's dipper picto mark verso [shared with father Willie Yazzie, Sr, d. 1999]
A long link belt with sixteen Hopi-style round sterling silver overlay/shadowbox "conchos", each depicting various Southwest figural motifs and landscapes, including deer, turtles, roadrunners, a butterfly, Rainbow Guardian, katsina dancers, and bearpaw motifs
41" L x 2" Dia.
182.1 grams gross
Estimate: $300 - $500](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/a5919e2b-0101-4b53-80fd-619d7e1c1564.jpg)
















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A group of Southwest silver and turquoise jewelry
Late 20th/21st century
Variously marked for maker and for sterling: AB / CFD 90 / Claudine [likely Pentakewa; etched] Zuni / Cliff Jamon
Seven works comprising two bracelets by Cliff Jamon (b. 1953, Zuni), including a delicate three-wire cuff with narrow set needlepoint turquoise, and a narrow flat wire bangle with spaced needlepoint turquoise, together with a Claudine [Pentakewa] Zuni delicate single wire and turquoise needlepoint set cuff, a Zuni-style needlepoint butterfly ring, a needlepoint cross pendant,
as well as two pairs of earrings, one pair with nugget turquoise dangles and one pair with sterling silver storyteller figures
9 pieces
Cuffs: each 6.25" inner C; Bangle: 8.25" inner C; Ring size: 6.25; Pendant: 1.375" H; Earrings: 2" H & 1.5" H
45.3 grams gross
Estimate: $500 - $700](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/44f1759e-08fc-4a58-94c7-385ece062b44.jpg)

![337
A collection of miniature Southwest-style pottery
Late 20th century
Five variously marked for maker
Comprising a Denny Guiterrez 1991 Santa Clara Pueblo blackware shouldered jar, A Lucero Santa Clara incised blackware jar, an Anita Lowden Acoma Pueblo black-on-white small face motif handled jar, a polished fire-clouded beige tapered lidded jar/deed pot with "howling wolf" lid/stopper, as well as two small green-glazed modernist-style miniature ashtrays, including one with notch marked Cohn, and one olive green unmarked, and a small lidded basket
7 pieces
Largest: 4.25" H [with lid] x 2.875" Dia.; Smallest: 1.5" H x 2" Dia.; Basket: 1.25" H x 1" Dia.
Estimate: $200 - $400](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/40636f79-eb2f-427c-86f9-04a430a114f2.jpg)







![345
A group of Southwest pottery vessels
Mid-20th century
Four works:
Maria Martinez (1887-1980, Santa Clara Pueblo)
A blackware pottery seed jar
The jar with black on black banded raincloud motif to rim
1.625" H x 3.125" Dia.
Caroline G. Loretto (b. 1953)
A redware seed pot
The pot with banded avian motifs to shoulder
3.25" H x 3.625" Dia.
A blackware wedding jar
Incised to underside: Margaret [likely Margaret Garcia (1943-2016, Santa Clara Pueblo)] / Sta. Clara [illegible]
The two-spouted jar with black on black stepped and cloud motifs
6.25" H x 5.5" W x 3.5" D
A canoe-form blackware bowl
With black on black kiva step and geometric motifs to sides
2.75" H x 7.5" W x 2.75" D
4 pieces
Estimate: $100 - $200](https://picturescdn.estatesales.net/4607376/1-2/e2c0a23e-6849-4a88-92fe-ad374d473bfb.jpg)




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