Collectors, heirs and executors
Sell your Western painting
Here is how Steven Stern Fine Arts handles Western American paintings, from your first email or call to a completed purchase or consignment.
What we buy
- Taos Society of Artists and other Taos and Santa Fe painters, including Taos Pueblo artists;
- cowboy, cavalry and frontier subjects;
- Native American subjects, from portraits to camp and pueblo scenes;
- landscapes of the Southwest and the West: deserts, canyons and mesas, the Rockies, Montana and the Tetons.
See the Western artists whose work the gallery has sold.
What to send us
- the whole front, photographed square-on in even light;
- the entire back, including any inscription, title, place name, date, stamp or label;
- the signature and any date on the front;
- the dimensions of the image area, not the frame;
- what you know about the painting's history: family ownership, purchase records, exhibition or dealer labels, earlier appraisals.
Leave Western paintings and bronzes untouched: no cleaning, no new frames, and no removing tags or labels before we've looked.
How we evaluate a painting
Evaluations are confidential. The gallery looks at authorship, period, subject, condition, provenance, exhibition history, literature and importance within the artist's work.
Your options
- Outright purchase by the gallery.
- Consignment, with the gallery offering the painting to its clients on your behalf.
- Advice and private sale for important single works, estates and multi-artist collections.
Seeing the painting
The gallery's Los Angeles base serves owners of Western art in every state, and Steven Stern regularly travels to see collections.
Western art seller inquiry
Tell us the artist, if you know it, and share a few photos. A rough description is enough to start.
Prefer to talk? Call (310) 570-5679 or email StevenSternFineArts@gmail.com.
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