DALLAS – Sheepherders Camp, 1893, the first large, pastel artwork by artist Frank Reaugh to ever appear at public auction could sell for $60,000 when offered Sunday, May 16, in Heritage Auctions’ Texas Art Auction.
LiveAuctioneers.com will provide absentee and Internet live bidding.
“With Sheepherders Camp, Frank Reaugh helped introduce Texas art to the world,” said Atlee Phillips, director of Texas art at Heritage. “It is a testament to the quality and importance of this piece that it was included among artworks selected to represent the United States at the World’s Fair in St. Louis, where it held its own on an international stage. In fact, the public reception was so positive the work also was placed on display at an important retrospective in Chicago.”
The auction also features Julian Onderdonk’s signature Bluebonnets North of San Antonio, Late Afternoon, circa 1919-21 (est. $50,000+).
Also on offer is Onderdonk’s Golden Sunset, Southwest Texas (est. $15,000+), and Valley View of Cloudy Mountain Peak – painted by Julian’s father, Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, – also appears in the auction as a rare double-sided work (est. $6,000+), pictured below.
Leading a selection of postwar examples of Texas art is Porfirio Salinas’ Hunting Season (Fall in Central Texas), 1957 (est. $18,000).
