AN AMERICAN VISION

Sotheby's presents a two-session sale featuring significant works of traditional and Western historic art

Francis Augustus Silva (1835-1886), The Catskills from the Hudson, 1880. Oil on canvas, 20 x 40 in. Estimate: $40/60,000

On January 24, Sotheby’s kicks off Visions of America, a series of auctions, exhibitions and programming that highlight American craftsmanship at its finest, with Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West. The live sale will feature roughly 100 lots of important American paintings, drawings, photography and sculpture that celebrate prominent artists of American, Canadian and Latin American descent, with a focus on 19th-century landscapes, still lifes, portraiture and historical subject matter. One of the two-session sales is dedicated specifically to Western art, and includes works by Frederic Remington, Albert Bierstadt, Eanger Irving Couse and many others whose illustrations and sculptures embody the American West.