2017 Autumn Art Auction

Saturday, October 28, 2017
Social starts at 6:30 pm
Live auction starts at 8 pm
Member tickets: $40
Non-Member tickets: $50

Tickets can be purchased at the Museum
by calling 701.777.4195
or

 

 

Free event parking

Auction Preview
Thursday, October 26 until the Auction.
Museum Hours:
Monday – Friday, 9 to 5 pm
Saturday – Sunday, 1 to 5 pm

Auction Walk-about
Thursday, October 26, 7 pm. Laurel Reuter, Auction Curator, will lead an informal discussion about works in the Auction.

 

Welcome to the twentieth annual Autumn Art Auction. The Museum originally started the auction in order to build a regional support system for the artists who live in our region. Galleries were few and far between; there wasn’t an established regional market. Thankfully, this has changed in North Dakota, especially in Grand Forks and its surrounding communities. Auctions and sales have become commonplace. Original art is the norm in locally owned restaurants. Young people are filling their homes with art from our own artists.

This Auction set the regional precedent for paying artists before paying ourselves. We never ask artists to donate art—although some do. For the first 17 years of this auction, we allowed artists to set a minimum price, which they were guaranteed to receive. Work that didn’t reach the artist’s minimum was brought in by the Museum and returned. Any amount over the reserve was split 50/50 between the artist and the Museum. Finally, we feel confident that the prices for art have stabilized. The artists and the Museum will split the sales 50/50 in the 2017 Art Auction.
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Others in the region have adopted our policy of paying artists. Instead of always being asked to donate, artists can expect actual income from auctions sponsored by art entities. And, bless you buyers for not forgetting that this is also a benefit for the Museum. We value your generosity.

Remember, when you buy through the Auction, the price includes framing. Frames are often custom made by the artists or framed by the Museum staff with archival materials. This adds significant value to most artworks, often as much as $400 in the Grand Forks market but considerably more elsewhere. Please note that sales tax is charged on all art that stays in North Dakota.

 

 

Click here to download Rules of the Auction
 
Click here to download Absentee Bid Form
 
Click here to view archived Autumn Art Auction catalogs

 

 

Underwriter – $5000

 

Lois Wilde

and

Altru Health Systems

 

 


Patrons – $1000

All Seasons Garden Center
Altru Advanced Orthopedics
C&M Ford
HB Sound and Light
Hugo’s Marketplace
Minnesota Public Radio
News Radio 1310 KNOX
Plains Chiropractic and Acupuncture P.C.
Rhombus Guys
William F. Wosick, MD


 

Supporters – $500

ACME TOOLS
AE2S
Avant Hair and Skin Care Studio
Badger-Tanabe Dental Group
Blue Moose Bar & Grill
Bremer Bank
Crary Real Estate
Edgewood Healthcare
Empire Arts Center
First State Bank
Grand Forks Country Club
Ground Round
Helix Wine & Bites
Icon Architectural Group
Julie Blehm
Little Bangkok
Museum Café
North Dakota Eye Clinic
Prairie Public
Reichert Armstrong Law Office
River City Jewelers
Sky's
Trojan Promotions
Truyu
Walls Medicine Center
Waterfront Gallery, Northern Plumbing Supply
 

 

 


 

Lot #1
Emily Lunde
One Room Schoolhouse, c. 1980
Acrylic on canvas
23.25 x 29.25 inches
Range: $500 – 800

 

 

 

 

Lot #2
Jon Offutt
Fargo, North Dakota
Handblown Glass Bowl,
2017
6.6 height x 18.25 diameter inches
Range: $300 – 400

 

Lot #3
Lisa York
Frederick, Maryland
Bowl Set, 2014
Ceramic and wood
6 x 24 x 7 inches
Range: $400 – 600

Lot #4
Mollie Douthit
Joey, 2016
Charcoal on paper
9.8 x 7.8 inches
Range: $200 – 250

Lot #5
Mollie Douthit
Grand Forks, North Dakota
BV Cow, 2016
Pencil on paper
9.8 x 7.8 inches
Range: $200 – 250

Lot #6
Ned Krouse
Haslett, Michigan
Ride the Badlands, 2017
Wheel thrown, slip decorated, raku fired
8 x 6 x 6 inches
Range: $350 – 450


Lot #7
Lynne Allen
Brookline, Massachusetts
Wind Woman (Ita ta win), 2006
Digital Print, woodcut (printed intaglio style)
22 x 22 inches
Range: $800 – 1,200
 

 

Lot #8
Pirjo Berg
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Left Behind, 2017
Oil and paper on board
6 x 6 inches framed
Range: $200 – 300
 

Lot #9
Pirjo Berg
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Passes #1, 2017
Oil and paper on board
6 x 6 inches framed
Range: $200 – 300

 


Lot #10
Pirjo Berg
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Spring Memory, 2017
Oil and paper on board
6 x 6 inches framed
Range: $200 – 300

Lot #11
Meghan Duda
Fargo, North Dakota
Hatbox Studies, 2016
Silver gelatin photograph
6.5 x 24 inches, 11.25 x 29 inches framed
Range: $200 – 300
 

 

Lot #12
Brock Davis
Fargo, North Dakota
Firepit, 2017
Steel
33 x 28 x 28 inches
Range: $400 – 650

Lot #13
Bill Harbot
Minot, North Dakota
Bingo, 2017
Mixed media collage on panel
32 x 48 inches
Range: $650 – 800

 


Lot #14
Vivienne Morgan
Bemidji, Minnesota
Bladder Campion, 2017
Tea toned cyanotype photogram
30 x 22 inches
Range: $400 – 500


Lot #15
Dan Jones
Fargo, North Dakota
Still Life with White, 2017
Oil on linen
14 x 11 inches framed
Range: $650 – 1,000

Lot #16
Jack Dale
St. Paul, Minnesota
The Sun in Winter, 2015
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
Range: $500 – 800

 

 

Lot #17
Marley Kaul
Bemidji, Minnesota
Out of the Sun, 2016
Egg tempra on panel
15.5 x 27.5  inches framed
Range: $2,700 – 3,200

Lot #18
Lewis Ableidinger
Harvey, North Dakota
Ice Fishing near Eckelson, North Dakota, 2016
Archival inkjet photograph
24 x 30 inches framed
Range: $300 – 500

 

Lot #19
DeborahMae Broad
Hawley, Minnesota
Without You, 2016
Wood engraving
Edition 7 of 15
24 x 18 inches, 31.5 x 25.5 inches framed
Range: $600 – 900
 

Lot #20
Arduina Palanca Caponigro
Cushing, Maine
Tree and Flock, Open edition
Pigmented ink on coated archival rag paper
12 x 12 inches, 22 x 22 inches framed
Range: $1,000 – 1,500

Lot #21
Arduina Palanca Caponigro
Cushing, Maine
Red Dress Jump, Open edition
Pigmented ink on coated archival rag paper
12 x 12 inches, 22 x 22 inches framed
Range: $1,000 – 1,500

Lot #22
Arduina Palanca Caponigro
Cushing, Maine
Tree and Boat, Open edition
Pigmented ink on coated archival rag paper
12 x 12 inches, 22 x 22 inches framed
Range: $1,000 – 1,500

 

Lot #23
Dyan Rey
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Chinese Vase, 2017
Collage on paper
29.5 x 21.5 inches
Range: $700 – 800

 

 

 

Lot #24
Catie Miller
West Fargo, North Dakota
Temptation, 2016
Clay and paint
9.5 x 14 x 5inches
Range: $200 – 400


Lot #25
Eve Sumsky
Tentstrike, Minnesota
Nantucket Style (medium Canister), c. 2016
Rattan reed, walnut wood
6.75 inches high x 6.5 inches in diameter
Range: $200 – 400 each

Lot #26
Marlon Davidson & Don Knudson
Bemidji, Minnesota
Polycitrome Pipes, 2017
Acrylic and uretatin on wood
42 x 56 x 2.5 inches
Range: $800 – 900

 


Lot #27
Amanda Heidt
Fargo, North Dakota
Still, 2010
Lithograph on Kitakata paper
Edition 2 of 10
22 x 16 inches
Range: $300 – 400

Lot #28
Guillermo Guardia
St. Paul, Minnesota
Princess Ocllo, 2016
Painted stoneware
24 x 14 x 12 inches
Range: $2,500 – 3,500

Lot #29
Tim Schouten
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Jackson and Queen, 2016
Oil, pigment, beeswax, microcrystalline wax, dammar resin on birch panel
48 x 36 inches
Range: $800 – 1,200

 

Lot #30
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Broadside: Standing Rock, Coming of the Black Snake, 2017
Archival color ink print made on an Epson printer reproducing the image of Christopher Benson's painting. Letterpress text of a Sitting Bull quote designed and printed by Peter Kock Printers of Berkeley, California.
Edition 75
28 x 18.75 inches
Range: $400 – 600

Lot #31
Adam Kemp
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Lincoln Park, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
72 x 52 inches
Range: $2,000 – 2,400


Lot #32
Zhimin Guan
Fargo, North Dakota
Waterlilies, 2013
Watercolor on paper
42 x 62 inches
Range: $1,200 – 1,500


Lot #33
Kelli Nelson
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Virga, 2017
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 inches
Range: $1,200 – 1,400

Lot #34
Kelli Nelson
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Shepardess (after Joshua Reynolds, Lady Mary Leslie, 1764), 2017
Oil on linen
16 x 12 inches
Range: $700 – 800

 

Lot #35
Kelli Sinner
Moorhead, Minnesota
Cloud Vase, 2013
Stoneware
9 x 8 x 4 inches
Range: $150 – 200


Lot #36
Kelli Sinner
Moorhead, Minnesota
Cloud Vase with Purple Handles, 2013
Stoneware
11 x 9 x 6 inches
Range: $150 – 200

 

 

Lot #37
Albert Belleveau
Puposky, Minnesota
Red Rock Turtle, 2017
Stone and steel
5 x 10 x 14 inches
Range: $200 – 400

 


Lot #38
Alexander Hettich
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Long Horns, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
Range: $500 – 700

Lot #39
Alexander Hettich
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Trees, Trees, 2017
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Range: $500 – 700

     

 

Lot #40
Jessica Matson-Fluto
West Fargo, North Dakota
Disperse, 2015
White charcoal on paper
18 x 29 inches framed
Range: $400 – 500
          

Lot #41
Eleanor McGough
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Billowing, 2013
Acrylic on panel
30 x 40 inches
Range: $550 – 650
 

Lot #42
Paul Gronhovd
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Caprock, 2016
Archival inkjet print
10.5 x 16.5 inches, 19 x 25 inches framed
Range: $300 – 500

 

Lot #43
Rena Effendi
Istanbul, Turkey
Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone Tree in Room, December 2010
31.5 x 31.5 inches
Range: $1,500 – 3,500

Lot #44
Rena Effendi
Istanbul, Turkey
Chernobyl: Still Life in the Zone Veggies, December 2010
31.5 x 31.5 inches
Range: $1,500 – 3,500


Lot #45
Chris Walla
Moorhead, Minnesota
Passing, 2014
Wood, Plexiglas, ball chain, chandelier crystals
72 x 24 inches wide and 10 inches deep
Range: $900 – 1,300

 

 

Lot #46
Mélanie Rocan
Arnes, Manitoba
Cat Walk, 2009
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 inches deep
Range: $3,000 – 5000

 

Lot #47
Gretchen Kottke
Cooperstown, North Dakota
The Gleaners, 2017
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 inches
Range: $400 – 800                                                             

 

Lot #48
Milena Marinov
Fargo, North Dakota
Eve's Offering, 2017
Oil on panel
9.5 x 7.5 inches, 19.5 x 17.5 inches framed
Range: $300 – 500

                                                                                                                       

Lot #49
Milena Marinov
Fargo, North Dakota
African roots: Shimmering Savannah 1, 2017
Ink on paper
10.5 x 13 inches, 17.5 x 21.5 inches framed
Range: $300 – 500

Lot #50
Butch Thunderhawk
Bismarck, North Dakota
Horse Effigy, 2017
Cedar branch, acrylic paint, brass tacks, horse hair, buckskin pouch and reins, tooled leather feather
Range: $1,400 x 1,600

Lot #51
Walter Piehl
Minot, North Dakota
Heart River: Sweetheart of the Rodeo, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
Range: $5,000 – 6,500

Lot #52
John Lembi
Bemidji, Minnesota
Home, 2014
Oil on canvas
24 x 24 inches framed
Range: $800 – 1,000

Lot #53
Carlos Rene Pacheco
Fargo, North Dakota
Flatland #5, 2016
Archival photo on rag paper
12 x 12 inches
Range: $150 – 225

Lot #54
Carlos Rene Pacheco
Fargo, North Dakota
Flatland #6, 2016
Archival photo on rag paper
12 x 12 inches
Range: $150 – 225

Lot #55
Carlos Rene Pacheco
Fargo, North Dakota
Flatland #7, 2016
Archival photo on rag paper
12 x 12 inches
Range: $150 – 225

Lot #56
John Miyazawa
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Waiting, 2017
Fired clay
36 x 12 x 13 inches
Range: $800 – 1,300

Lot #57
Lin Hao
Fujian, China
Still Life with Boot, 2017
Pastel on paper
19 x 24.5 inches
Range: $1,000 – 2,000