Lot # | 99 |
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Estimate | 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD |
Group - Category | Art - Paintings |
Lead | John Swan (b. 1948) |
Description |
Tails
signed "John Swan" lower right
oil on canvas, 20 by 30 in.
John Swan is the 2017 Featured Artist for The Bonefish and Tarpon Trust. 50% of the proceeds from the sale of "Tails" will go directly to BTT, whose mission is to conserve and enhance global bonefish, tarpon, and permit fisheries and their environments through stewardship, research, education, and advocacy. The BTT serves as a repository for information on the life history of these species and works internationally with anglers, guides, scientists, regulators, and the public to nurture and enhance fish populations.
John Swan was born and raised in Maine and studied at the University of New Hampshire. In the 1980s, Swan was painting local rural landscapes until he completed a fly fishing painting that appeared on the cover of "Gray’s Sporting Journal". This early success with a sporting scene ensured that hunting and fishing subjects would be an integral part of Swan’s work in the years to come.
Considered one of America’s foremost sporting and wildlife artists, Swan is equally adept in watercolor and oils. His paintings bring to life fishing and hunting trips to places as far afield as the bonefishing mecca of The Bahamas and Canada’s Gaspe Peninsula, also a favorite sporting haunt of renowned impressionist Frank W. Benson (1862-1951). “I paint wherever I can fish,” he admits. The result is a body of spectacularly immediate works set in the world’s premier sporting destinations.
Based on firsthand experience, and often created en plein air, Swan’s paintings are imbued with freshness: the energy of a tarpon struggling against the line or the quietude of a hunter’s early dawn preparations.
Among his distinctions are one-man shows at the American Museum of Fly Fishing, the King Gallery of New York, and the Stephen O'Brien Jr. Fine Arts Gallery of Boston. His awards include being named Artist of the Year three times by the Atlantic Salmon Federation as well as being the Ducks Unlimited International Artist of the Year in 1987. He has illustrated numerous books including Joseph Bate’s classic "Atlantic Salmon Fishing" and Thomas McGuanes’s anthology "Live Water".
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Name | The Winter Sale 2017 |
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Auctioneer | Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC |
Type | Internet Absentee Bidding |
Date(s) | 2/17/2017 |
Auction Feb. 17, 11 AM | |
Preview Date/Time | Preview Feb. 17, 8:30-10:30 AM |
Checkout Date/Time | Check out is during the sale 11 AM to auction end. |
Location | The American Theater
446 King Street Charleston, SC 29403 |
Buyer Premium | Buyer's Premium 20% |
Description |
The Winter Sale 2017
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Bid Amount | Bid Increment |
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0.00 - 1,000.00 | 50.00 USD |
1,000.01 - 3,000.00 | 100.00 USD |
3,000.01 - 5,000.00 | 250.00 USD |
5,000.01 - 10,000.00 | 500.00 USD |
10,000.01 - 30,000.00 | 1,000.00 USD |
30,000.01 - 50,000.00 | 2,500.00 USD |
50,000.01 - 100,000.00 | 5,000.00 USD |
100,000.01 - 9,999,999.99 | 10,000.00 USD |
Currency | USD |
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Buyer Premium | Buyer's Premium 20% |
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