Western artists we buy
Western artists whose work we buy
Steven Stern Fine Arts has sold Western paintings by each of the 16 artists below, and would like to hear from owners of their work. If your artist isn't listed, get in touch anyway: we look at Western American paintings by many other artists too.
Taos Society and Taos Pueblo painters
Joseph Henry Sharp (1859–1953)
Founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, known for his portraits of Crow, Cheyenne and Taos Pueblo sitters and his Taos landscapes.
Albert Looking Elk Martinez (c. 1888–1940)
Taos Pueblo painter who first worked as a model for the Taos artists and went on to paint views of the pueblo and its surroundings.
E. Irving Couse (1866–1936)
Founding member and first president of the Taos Society of Artists, known for his paintings of Taos Pueblo figures.
Painters of the desert Southwest
Edgar Payne (1883–1947)
California painter of the High Sierra who also made many trips to the Southwest; his Navajo riders in Canyon de Chelly are among his best-known subjects.
Maynard Dixon (1875–1946)
Painter and illustrator of the desert West, known for his mesas, desert ranges and cloud-filled skies, and for Native American and cowboy subjects.
Carl Oscar Borg (1879–1947)
Swedish-born California painter known for his Hopi and Navajo subjects and Southwest landscapes.
Carl von Hassler (1887–1969)
German-born Albuquerque painter of New Mexico landscapes and pueblos, whose murals decorate the KiMo Theatre.
Clyde Forsythe (1885–1962)
Illustrator and painter of the Southwest desert, its prospectors and its skies.
Ed Mell (born 1942)
Arizona painter of stylized, sharply lit Southwest landscapes, clouds and desert flowers.
James Swinnerton (1875–1974)
Pioneering newspaper cartoonist who moved west for his health and became a painter of the Southwest desert.
Cowboys, cavalry and the Old West
Alexander Harmer (1856–1925)
Painter and photographer of Apache, Mexican and early California life.
Charles Schreyvogel (1861–1912)
Painter of the frontier cavalry and the Plains wars.
Frank Tenney Johnson (1874–1939)
Painter of cowboys and the Old West, best known for his moonlit night scenes.
The Rockies and the Northern West
Birger Sandzén (1871–1954)
Swedish-born painter who taught for decades at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, known for boldly colored Rocky Mountain and Western landscapes.
Ralph E. DeCamp (1858–1936)
Helena painter of Montana's rivers and mountains, who painted murals for the Montana State Capitol.
Carl Rungius (1869–1959)
German-born wildlife painter of the big-game country of Wyoming and the Canadian Rockies.