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Please note: Posters of Don Bell's piece A Little Ranchy that appeared on the August issue of America's Horse are available by phone. Signed posters are $100 each and unsigned posters are $25 each. Posters are printed on heavy linen textured paper and are 20" x 30". |
| KEITH W. AVERY  Keith W. Avery was well known to many American Quarter Horse people. His paintings appeared on 19 American Quarter Horse Journal covers and he authored many articles for the Journal as well.
A graduate of New Mexico State University, Avery received an honorary doctor of letters from NMSU. He also received the 1994 Governor’s Award for excellence and achievement in the arts. Avery was an avid horseman and won the 1946 National Stock Horse Championship in Chicago. In 1986 he was selected as the first cowboy poet to represent New Mexico at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. Keith died in June 2005. 
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23.5 x 26.5
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| WAYNE BAIZE  At an early age, Wayne Baize learned the value of a good horse and as a youth helped break colts. Later, he and his brother, Arlon, raised American Quarter Horses. Wayne has been a professional artist for more than 35 years and has had his work reproduced on the covers of many magazines, including The American Quarter Horse Journal
He was elected to membership of the Cowboy Artists of America in 1995 and has served as director, vice president and president of the organization. Wayne and his wife, Ellen, live in a small ranch near Fort Davis, Texas.
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30 x 49
| SOLD | 
30.5 x 37
| SOLD | 
33 x 40
| $12,500 |
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| DON BELL 
Don Bell grew up in middle Tennessee, surrounded by horses, livestock and wildlife. It was natural for him to develop early on an eye for evaluating the conformation types of the animals whose images filled his young life. Sculptor Marrita McMillian encouraged Don to develop his art, and Don soon developed his own style, using graphite pencil on a wide range of surfaces: fiberglass, canvas, clayboard and a variety of papers. His work has been showcased in such magazines as The American Quarter Horse Journal, SuperLooper, Western Horseman and Horse & Rider. Bell’s original works have helped raise more than $55,000 for the American Quarter Horse Foundation. He is an AQHA judge and director, and he and his wife, Joetta, own and operate Bell Quarter Horses in Whitesboro, Texas.
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24 x 36
| SOLD | 
11 x 15
| SOLD | 
24 x 36
| $6,500 |
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| TEAL BLAKE
 Like father, like son. So it is with artist Teal Blake and his father, western artist Buckeye Blake. While growing up, the younger Blake was surrounded by western art and the creators of that genre. Viewing Charlie Russell paintings at the Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana, helped the young artist see that cowboys were seldom clean-shaven, their shirts weren’t always creased and clean, and horses’ manes weren’t long. “An artist sees the big picture, rather than the imperfections,” Blake said. “Overall, art is not copying the image in detail, but telling the story with feeling. That’s one of the main attributes of western art – it’s honest.” A few years ago, Teal moved from Idaho to Texas to be more centrally located in the horse world. He has found Texas to be its own country with an immense history and tradition, and he’s grateful for having the opportunity to visit some of Texas’ large ranches, where he works during brandings and fall gathers, experiences that enable him to duplicate the true American West.
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22 x 30
| SOLD | 
10 x 14
| $850 | 
10.5 x 14
| SOLD |
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| LYNN BROWN 
Born in Texas, raised in Arizona, and now back living in Texas, Lynn’s love for horses and the western lifestyle was only natural as she grew up going to rodeos with her father. She married into a ranching family and her life expanded into the world of the working cowboy. Lynn enjoys capturing the beauty of the old time rodeo cowgirls of the early 1900s through the 1940s. For many years she successfully owned and operated a business that incorporated many of the cowgirl images she paints. Moda Fabrics designed a line of fabric using many of her cowgirls, and currently Montana Silversmiths is producing Lynn’s artwork in a line of jewelry, dishes and home products. Lynn’s art has been exhibited in many shows throughout the western United States. She has recently exhibited her work in and The Trappings of the American West and the Phippen Museum Miniature Art Show. Lynn’s art work has been chosen to represent the Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, Santa Clarita, California; The California Cowboy Gathering, Dublin, California; Riding the Rim-The Flagstaff Cowboy Poetry Gathering; and the Prescott Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival. Lynn was included in The Dry Creek Arts Fellowship and Beyond the 98th Meridian traveling exhibit that was featured at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Working mainly in watercolor and oils, Lynn paints to express her feelings for the day-to-day life of the working cowboy, the horse, and the West through her art.
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18 x 21
| $1,775 | 
11 x 14
| $825 | | |
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| STEVE DEVENYNS 
Steve Devenyns has been featured in many prestigious art magazines including Art of the West, Southwest Art, Inform Art, US Art and Western Horseman. He is a multiple gold medal winner at the Phippen Memorial Show in Arizona, and in 2006, he received the People’s Choice Award at the Buffalo Bill Art Show. His shows include the Quest for the West Show at the Eiteljorg Museum, and the Governor’s Show at Cheyenne Frontier Days. Steve’s work is carried by Big Horn Galleries and the Cogswell Gallery in Vail, Colorado.
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12 x 16
| $2,850 | 
8 x 10
| SOLD | | |
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| MIKEL DONAHUE 
Mikel Donahue, the grandson of a rancher and great-grandson of an Oklahoma pioneer of the Cherokee Strip Run of 1893, has lived in Oklahoma all his life. He and his wife, Christie, raise American Quarter Horses at their home in Broken Arrow. He has worked in the advertising/marketing industry as an art director for more than 29 years and began to draw and paint seriously about six years ago. Mikel’s style is true to the people and places that he
portrays. His friendships with working cowboys and involvement in the horse industry give him inspiration and a unique perspective to his art. He works in colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic and oils. Mikel has donated works to benefit the fund-raising efforts of the American Quarter Horse Foundation, Bit by Bit
Therapeutic Riding Center and the Alzheimer’s Association of Eastern Oklahoma. He has been featured in American Cowboy and Western Horseman magazines. His work has been on the cover of America’s Horse and The American
Quarter Horse Racing Journal.
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14.25 x 21.75
| $1,000 | 
21.5 x 20
| SOLD | 
15 x 18
| $4,200 |
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| DYRK GODBY 
Dyrk Godby is an Idaho cowboy, western artist and a singer/songwriter living in Sisters, Oregon. His perspective on art and music came from his upbringing on working horse ranches in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada. He has trained and shown horses with the guidance of his parents as well as professionals Jim Dorrance and Richard Shrake, winning numerous AQHA awards. Dyrk’s work has graced the covers of the finest equine and western publications. His paintings have won numerous Best in Show and People’s Choice Awards in western art shows. He has produced and published 18 signed/numbered, limited addition prints during the past 30 years and has been commissioned to paint world champion horses in cutting, reining, working cow horse and
halter. Dyrk also has been commissioned to do event posters for rodeos, cuttings and stock sales.
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15 x 17
| SOLD | 
22.5 x 19.5
| SOLD | 
38 x 32
| SOLD |
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| BRUCE GRAHAM 
Born in 1961, Bruce Graham’s path to western art was obvious to him even as a young child. His grandfather, an avid collector of significant western art, had owned the famous Two Dot Ranch in Wyoming during the heyday of large ranching operations. The family stories of cowboy life, as well as contact with impressive artwork, left an early and lasting impression on Graham. Trained as an illustrator at Utah State University, Graham became a western artist in 1991. Since that time, Graham’s award-winning oil paintings have been featured in numerous well-known art shows. His work hangs in collections throughout the United States and abroad.
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21 x 24
| $3,000 | 
19 x 22
| $2,400 | 
13 x 11
| SOLD |
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| SHERI GREVES-NEILSON 
Sheri Greves-Neilson has been a professional artist for more than 20 years and has won many awards for her drawings and paintings. Her favorite medium is pencil. She also works in oil. Sheri’s work has appeared on the cover of Western Horseman and inside other magazines. Her art was included in “Colored Pencil 4,” a book published by the Colored Pencil Society of America. She has exhibited at the Tucson Museum of Art; the Phippen Museum in Prescott, Arizona; the Cattle Raisers Museum in Fort Worth; and the Pioneer Museum in Paso Robles, California. Her shows include the Cheyenne Frontier Days Art Show in Cheyenne, Wyoming; the Peppertree Ranch Western Art Show in Santa Ynez, California; and the WRCA Art Show in Amarillo, as well as many competitions. Greves-Neilson says the best part of her job is going on a 60-mile cattle drive in California yearly and traveling to ranches for brandings to gather material. She lives on a small ranch in northern California with her husband, David, along with horses, miniature donkeys, cats and dogs.
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27 x 28
| $2,400 | 
10 x 10
| SOLD | | |
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| DON HAMBRICK 
Don grew up on a cotton farm near Seminole, Texas, wanting to be a cowboy. He learned at an early age that he was blessed with the ability to draw, and he came to enjoy drawing horses, cattle and the cowboys who work with them. Don found inspiration in the works of artists Charles M. Russell and Will James. Don has earned awards at several prestigious art shows, including the acrylic and pencil divisions at the Big Bear Art Show. He has been honored for his acrylic work at the Excalibur Casino Art show during the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, and the Phippen Art Show in Prescott, Arizona. Don is also a writer and poet whose work has been published in The Cowboy and Range magazines. A book of his stories and illustrations has also been published.
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34 x 46
| $6,500 | 
34 x 41
| $4,000 | 
16 x 18
| $800 |
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| HAROLD “H” HOLDEN 
Harold “H”Holden has painted and sculpted the West for more than 35 years. During the past 20 years, “H” has completed 20 public sculptures, including “World Champion” at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds. Also a painter, H has created a U. S. postage stamp and has numerous paintings in the Oklahoma State Capitol. He regularly shows in the Prix de West, Cheyenne Frontier Days and Masters of the American West Art shows. He and his wife, Edna Mae, reside near Kremlin, Oklahoma, where they have a small herd of Longhorns and five American Quarter Horses.
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4 x 5 x 2
| $600 | 
12 x 16 x 5
| SOLD | 
24 x 24 x 12
| $6,800 |
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| RICK JACKSON
 Rick says his 28 years of sculpting have been a continuous learning curve. Other than his participation in a limited number of workshops, and his in-depth study of human and animal anatomy, he is self-taught. Rick’s art has been commissioned by the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Cutter Animal Health, The Bayer Corporation and St. Anthony’s Hospital. His larger sculptures can be seen at Southwestern Adventist College in Keene, Texas; the Cultural Affairs Center and Hendrick Medical Center, both in Abilene, Texas; Lovers Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas; and Clark Gardens in Mineral Wells, Texas. Rick is currently working on a bronze portrait of a family of seven and is about to begin work on a life-size tiger for his hometown high school.
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20 x 21 x 13
| $4,250 | 
14 x 11 x 11
| $2,500 | 
8 x 7 x 7
| SOLD |
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| GREG KELSEY 
Greg Kelsey of Ignacio, Colorado, spent most of his life around two parallel interests, art and ranching. He explains, “Whether it’s buckin’ horses, ropin’ or pushin’ cows, that’s where I get my inspiration for art and for everyday decisions. That’s the current, right there. You get out of the current and all those ideas and abilities seem to pass you by. Get back in the saddle and it’s all there again.” Greg won the Artists’ Choice Award at the C.M. Russell Art Auction in 2001 and People’s Choice Award in 2007. He also earned Best Sculpture honor at the 2003 Night of the Artists in San Antonio, Texas, and Gold Medal Sculpture and People’s Choice Awards at the 2006 Bosque Art Competition. His work has been featured in Western Horseman, Southwest Art, Art of the West and Cowboys & Indians Magazine.
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14 x 31 x 19
| $8,800 | 
14 x 5 x 3
| SOLD | 
13 x 6 x 6
| $1,600 |
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| T.D. KELSEY
T.D. Kelsey grew up on a ranch near Bozeman, Montana, and married his high school sweetheart, Sid, in 1964. He rodeoed for many years in rough stock events and team roping. Presently, T.D. trains and shows his own cutting horses. He worked as a commercial pilot for United Airlines until 1979 when he resigned to devote full time to his art. Kelsey’s work is found in private and public collections worldwide. He is a member of the National Sculpture
Society and was honored with a one-man show at the Thomas Gilcrease Museum and the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum. His piece “Texas Gold” is in the historic Stockyards area of Fort Worth. He also has received corporate commissions for
monumental and garden-size pieces. Kelsey’s work is available in limited editions. Both finished casting and works in progress can be seen in the studio-gallery at his ranch near Pompey’s Pillar, Montana.
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16 x 19 x 9
| $7,700 | 
17 x 13 x 9
| $7,500 | 
16 x 31 x 16
| $12,500 |
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| MARK KOHLER 
Texas native Mark Kohler found the medium of watercolor suited him for images of the contemporary West. A degree in illustration from Southwest Texas State University and several years in the advertising industry served as a training ground for his artistic talents. He has been a full-time artist since 1995, capturing and preserving the images of the modern working cowboy, using bold color, intricate detail and reflected light. Mark won the 2008 Cowboy Artist of America Founders Award at the Phippen Museum Western Art Show and Sale in Prescott, Arizona. He also has shown in the Charles M. Russell Art Auction and Sale in Great Falls, Montana. His work has been displayed, along with editorials on his career, in magazines including Western Magazine, a French publication that celebrates the American West. Mark’s work is in private and corporate collections. He has published a book, “Mark Kohler, Working Cowboys.”
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10 x 7
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| EARL KUHN 
Earl Kuhn’s watercolors depict the story of the contemporary cowboy, his horses, cattle and the landscapes surrounding them. A characteristic component of his paintings is the strong use of light and shadow. Earl’s works have been featured on covers of numerous equine and livestock magazines, including America’s Horse and Western Horseman. He has received the Working Ranch Cowboys Association “Best of Show” prize and has been the featured artist for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo poster. His paintings hang in many private and corporate art collections throughout the United States. Many of his paintings are commissioned.
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20 x 24
| $4,000 | 
24 x 20
| $3,000 | 
19 x 15
| SOLD |
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| MEHL LAWSON 
Mehl Lawson is an artist in three mediums – sculpture, braiding and horses. He is an heir to the proud vaquero tradition of Old California who excels at depicting the devotion between man and his horse, combining the world of horses with that of fine art and rawhide braiding. He has been presented the Remington Award and the Express Ranch Great American Cowboy Award at the Prix de West show at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City. Mehl has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1982. He was honored with the Thomas Moran Gold Medal in 1998 at the Masters of the American West show at the Gene Autry Museum. Mehl lives in Bonita, California. As you enter the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum, you are greeted by The American Quarter Horse, one of Mehl’s works.
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19 x 17 x 8.5
| SOLD | 
5 x 5 x 12
| SOLD | | |
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| JAN MAPES 
Colorado has been home for Jan Mapes since 1969. The western lifestyle suited Jan, as she always dreamed of living with cowboys, horses, cattle, wildlife and the beautiful landscapes of the West. Whether it is painting or sculpting, Jan desires to portray the essence of the moment, being it is a mood, a time, the light, or the movement. Mapes created the National Cutting Horse Association’s official trophy, the All American Limousin Futurity award, the Zane Schute Memorial Award and the Arkansas Valley Regional Medical Center sculpture, to name a few. Mapes’ sculptures and paintings are represented in galleries and museums across the country. She attends multiple shows annually. “I hope to continue to create art to share this human experience, to take it all in, even of the small stuff (well, then there is no small stuff). I thank God for his gifts.”
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14 x 9 x 15
| $4,400 | | | | |
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| GARY MORTON 
Gary began cowboying on different ranches as a teen and ultimately became wagon boss on the historic Bell Ranch in New Mexico. The cowboy life makes Gary more than familiar with his subjects. “I don’t just paint for myself but to honor the working cowboy,” he says. Gary’s paintings are realistic, accurate and his attention to detail allows him to be honest to himself and the people he paints. He has a body of work that reflects a life dedicated to perfecting his God-given talent and portraying the cowboy in its truest form. Gary and his wife, Suzie, are currently running yearlings on the Valles Caldera in northern New Mexico.
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18 x 24
| $6,000 | 
12 x 16
| $1,000 | | |
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| LISA PERRY 
Lisa is a lifelong fan and owner of American Quarter Horses. She and her husband, George, have bred American Quarter Horses for 35 years and are life members of AQHA. Lisa is a full member of the American Academy of Equine Art and recently taught a sculpting class for the Academy at the Kentucky Horse Park. She has sculpted a number of pieces for AQHA, including the larger-than-life bronze of Refrigerator in front of the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame & Museum.
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48 x 52 x 16
| $25,000 | 
48 x 52 x 16
| $22,500 | 
6 x 10 x 5
| SOLD |
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| JASON SCULL 
Jason Scull grew up in a family that farmed and ranched and has a history of doing so for nearly 180 years in Texas. That connection to the land and livestock influenced his art from an early age when he discovered that he liked the fit of a saddle over that of a tractor seat. “I’ve tried to pursue one and avoid the other ever since,” Scull said. “From the time I was old enough to hold a pencil and brush or mold a lump of clay, I’ve never been far away from those materials. Because of my affinity for horses, cattle and the people that work with them, they have been my subject matter of choice.” Scull studied with great western artists early in his career and credits that training coupled with constant observation as being the forces that have driven him to sculpt horses, cows and cow people. His work is in the collection of art
enthusiasts in the United States and abroad, and he accepts private and corporate commissions.
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17 x 10 x 10
| $2,900 | 
8.5 x 6.5 x 7.5
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| JACK SORENSON 
Texas artist Jack Sorenson grew up living the scenes of the West that he now paints. As a child growing up on his father’s dude ranch and frontier town on the rim of Palo Duro Canyon, his jobs included gunfighter, stagecoach driver and horse trainer. He became a full-time painter in 1974. Jack’s paintings have been used as covers for more than three dozen magazines, including The American Quarter Horse Journal and Western Horseman. His life story was featured in The American Quarter Horse Journal in June 2007. Jack is one of the best-selling artists for Leanin’ Tree Greeting Cards & Gifts, with more than 10 million cards sold. His work is published as limited-edition prints and posters. His second book of paintings, “Growing Up Cowboy,” will be published this year.
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22 x 28
| SOLD | 
34 x 39
| $7,250 | 
26 x 30
| $4,500 |
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| EDGAR SOTELO 
Edgar Sotelo’s admiration for the ranching and cowboy heritage is shown in his paintings. He is a self-taught artist who is blessed with a talent passed from both his father and grandfather. As a young child in Mexico, he drew horses, cowboys and Indians. Today, vibrant, accurate depictions of ranching scenes and cowboys are his specialty. Edgar feels honesty and respect are qualities so important in the code of honor true cowboys uphold that he diligently creates only true-to-life scenes in his paintings, created by visiting Texas ranches that allow him to ride along and observe, record and preserve the cowboy way of life.
Experiencing this firsthand has created a deeper respect and
admiration for the vanishing, authentic cowboy way of life.
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40 x 30
| $6,600 | 
24 x 18
| $2,400 | 
10 x 8
| SOLD |
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| BUCK TAYLOR 
Buck Taylor grew up on movie sets, watching his father, celebrated actor Dub Taylor, appear with movie greats John Wayne and Tex Ritter. Buck pursued gymnastics before becoming an actor in the 1950s in television, appearing in “Have Gun Will Travel,” “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” and “Bonanza.” For eight years, he portrayed Newly O’Brien on “Gunsmoke.” Buck began selling his watercolors at the 1993 National Finals Rodeo. He uses the faces of cowboys, Native Americans, horses and homesteaders to tell stories of adventure, nobility, hardship and sacrifice. Buck is in the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame and has received the Spirit of the West Award. In 1981, he was inducted as a trustee in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
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33 x 42
| $6,500 | 
23.5 x 28.5
| $2,000 | 
16.5 x 18.5
| SOLD |
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