Lot #141: ROBERT RUSSELL (XX - XXI): "DOUBLE BULGER"
Acrylic on canvas, 65 x 76 in., signed, titled and dated 3/77 on verso.
Estimate: $ 500.00 - $ 700.00 Sold at $550

Lot #142: EMERSON WOEFFLER: UNTITLED
Lithograph in colors, 30 x 22 1/4 in. (image, sight), signed and dated '77 and numbered 10/20.

In "Art in America" in 1993, Michael Duncan wrote: "A West Coast artist with roots in Abstract Expressionism, Emerson Woelffer has for 50 years explored ever new ways of combining formal structure and gestural impulse.

The bombastic scale and relentless machismo of the Abstract expressionists seem completely out of step with today's scaled-down, antiheroic art world. Yet those formal and conceptual innovators clearly paved the way for contemporary abstract artists. Therefore it seems the right moment to consider the work of a more modest practitioner belonging to that movement, Emerson Woelffer, who has been left out of the history books despite an ongoing 50-year career that has won him praise from such big guns as de Kooning, Rothko and Motherwell. A worthy member of the New York School, Woelffer just happened to live 3,000 miles out of town. In Los Angeles this winter three concurrent shows honored Woelffer on his retirement after 30 years of teaching; his students have included Ed Ruscha, Larry Bell, Joe Goode and Roy Dowell. The first full retrospective of Woelffer's works on paper dating from 1940 to 1992 was held at the Otis School of Art and Design, where he headed the painting department. Augmenting this show were joint exhibitions of Woelffer's paintings, ranging in date from 1947 to 1977, at the Manny Silverman and James Corcoran galleries."
Estimate: $ 400.00 - $ 600.00 Sold at $500

Lot #143: RON SLOWINSKI (b. 1932): UNTITLED (PRAYER-STONE SERIES)
Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 in., signed and dated '77 on verso.

His work is shown at the Canfield Gallery in Sante Fe and the Leedy-Voulkos Art center, Kansas City. Slowinski says that the Santo Domingo Pueblo and their dances have made a profound influence on his works.
Estimate: $ 600.00 - $ 800.00

Lot #145: TOM GEISMAR (XX - XXI): GEOMETRIC GRID
Silkscreen in colors, 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in., signed, dated '78 and numbered A.P.
Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Sold at $125

Lot #146: LEE NEWTON (XX - XXI): DOUBLE-SIDED PAINTING
Oil on glass, 17 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (image, sight), signed and dated '78.
Estimate: $ 200.00 - $ 300.00 Sold at $400

Lot #147: ROBERT RUSSELL (XX - XXI): "OBSIDIAN"
Acrylic on canvas, 65 x 75 1/2 in., signed, titled and dated 1978 on verso.
Estimate: $ 1000.00 - $ 1500.00

Lot #148: LEE NEWTON (XX - XXI): BLACK #2
Mixed media on paper, 26 1/4 x 43 1/4 in. (sight), signed and dated 1977.
Estimate: $ 300.00 - $ 500.00 Sold at $150

Lot #149: PAT COLVILLE (XX - XXI): "FALLEN HORSE #20"
Mixed media drawing, 22 x 30 in., signed, titled and dated '78.
Estimate: $ 100.00 - $ 200.00 Sold at $50