Best in show — and a new personal best for the artist — at $1,562,000 was Oscar Berninghaus’ “The Hunters Taos,” oil on canvas, 35 by 40 inches ($750,000-$1,250,000).

A second-place finish at $702,000 was achieved for Eanger Irving Couse’s “Taos Love Call,” oil on board, 34 by 46 inches. The lot was accompanied by the original leggings and belt from Couse’s studio, which the artist used for this painting ($300/500,000).

The $555,750 realized by “Welcoming the Trade Boat” by John Clymer, 1978, oil on canvas, 30 by 60 inches, puts it in the top-three highest works sold at auction to date ($300/500,000).

Bringing $526,500 from a bidder on the floor was “Indian Boy and Brave Looking at a Blanket” by Eanger Irving Couse, oil on canvas, 50 by 59 inches ($400/600,000).

“Meat Seekers at the Teewinot” by Martin Grelle (b 1954) was one of the most recently painted artworks in the sale to reach the upper echelons of the sale. Made in 2023 in oil on canvas measuring 44 by 58 inches, it closed out at $386,100, the fifth highest recorded auction result ($150/250,000).

The contemplative “Snowflakes” by G. Harvey, oil on canvas, 24 by 36 inches, rose to $292,500 from an estimate of $75/100,000.

One of the highest prices paid by an online buyer was $269,100, for Howard Terpning’s “Buffalo Runners,” an award-winning mixed-media composition, 29 by 46 inches painted in 1983 ($125/175,000).

The highest price sold for a single work by John Coleman is $245,700, for his 2008 bronze “Gall, Sitting Bull, & Crazy Horse, 1876” ($6 5,000).

“Houses Where the Penitentes Live,” is one of several works on the Hispanic peoples of Northern New Mexico, a departure from the peoples of the Taos pueblo and the Crow people of Montana for which Joseph Henry Sharp is most well known. This 20-by-30-inch oil on canvas composition achieved $234,000 ($100/150,000).

The sale featured “Wood Smoke Tales,” a companion piece to “Alouette,” one of John Clymer’s most famous works. A 1976 oil on canvas, “Wood Smoke Tales” measured 30 by 40 inches and achieved $286,650 ($250/450,000).

“Sons of Blue Lake” was the highest price of four works in the sale by contemporary Western artist Mark Maggiori, which found a new home with an online buyer for $175,500 ($50/75,000).

Averaging $670 per square inch, a value Brad Richardson thought might be a new per-inch record for artist G. Harvery, “KCGR Black Gold” realized $128,700. It measured just 16 by 12 inches ($45/60,000).

Sailing to a new world auction record for John Stobart at $128,700 was “San Francisco in 1849 (Vicar of Bray) Unloading in Yerba Buena Cove,” oil on canvas, 30 by 50 inches, which was published in Robert P. Davis’ Stobart – The Rediscovery of America’s Maritime Heritage (Dutton, 1985); a copy of the book accompanied the painting ($45/65,000).

Bill Owen’s “Laying a Heel Trap,” oil on canvas, 20 by 30 inches, set a new personal auction best for the artist at $76,050 ($15/20,000).

The new auction record for CAA founding artist George Phippen is $46,800, established for “Startling Moment,” 1954, oil on canvas, 24 by 30 inches ($10/15,000).