October Sale at Lone Star Art Auction Features Works of George Molnar, William Aiken Walker, and More

The upcoming sale at Lone Star Art Auction will offer some of the finest examples of American, Western, sporting, wildlife, and Texas fine art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the top lots is a George Molnar painting titled Cowboy and Calf. An Arizonian artist, George Molnar is revered for his lifelike and realistic portrayal of Native Americans, the Navajo Indians. Although Molnar offers impressive technical mastery in both surface and color, it is the spiritual presence of his images that has the greatest impact on the viewer. There are no indications of restoration on the available oil on canvas. Another notable piece in the auction is The Cotton Plantation by William Aiken Walker. A genre painter, Walker is best known for his depictions of cotton fields, plantations, African Americans, and dock scenes. In The Cotton Plantation, the artist provides a vivid depiction of sharecroppers engaged in cotton farming on a plantation.

Beyond fine art, the auction will present James Cox’s The Cattle Industry of Texas and Adjacent Territory Historical and Biographical 1895, a classic among cattle books. This compendium provides a comprehensive overview of the cattle industry in American society following the Civil War. The first edition contains 293 pages of historical information regarding the cattle industry, although most of the book, about 400 double-column pages, is dedicated to the biographies of 449 cattlemen. To view the complete catalog of the Lone Star Art Auction and to find other online auctions, visit Bidsquare.