Department Categories
American Art
Freeman's | Hindman's American Art department specializes in paintings, drawings, and sculpture by artists working in America from the 19th century through the 1970s.
Auctions feature works of Modernism, American Impressionism, Hudson River School, Ashcan, Regionalism, plus other movements and genres. Freeman’s | Hindman sales have achieved exceptional results for renowned artists such as three generations of the celebrated Wyeth family (N.C. Wyeth, son Andrew and daughter Henriette, and grandson Jamie), Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and Jasper Francis Cropsey; icons of American art and illustration like Norman Rockwell; graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, such as Cecilia Beaux and Arthur B. Carles; and notable Philadelphia figures like William Glackens, Jessie Willcox Smith, and the Peale family (Charles Willson, Rembrandt, and Raphaelle).
The Freeman's | Hindman team of American Art specialists brings years of expertise to its auctions, resulting in standout sales. In recent years, the department won the consignment of several major American art collections, including The George D. Horst Collection of Fine Art ($4.4M), The Collection of Dorrance “Dodo” H. Hamilton ($6.1M), and The Ottenberg Collection—all white-glove sales that yielded impressive prices for works by American artists, from Frank Weston Benson and Jonas Lie to Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, and Martha Walter.
Photographs
Freeman's | Hindman's Photographs department sells high-quality photographs, from early 19th century to contemporary works of art.
Freeman’s | Hindman Photographs sales feature works by blue-chip artists such as Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Hans Bellmer, Dawoud Bey, Edward Burtynsky, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Christenberry, Edward S. Curtis, Bruce Davidson, Roy DeCarava, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ernst Haas, Horst P. Horst, Pieter Hugo, Peter Hujar, Chris Killip, William Klein, Joseph Koudelka, Justine Kurland, Dorothea Lange, Saul Leiter, O. Winston Link, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz, Helmut Newton, Ruth Orkin, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, Angela Strassheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, Roman Vishniac, Massimo Vitali, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand and Joel-Peter Witkin.
Recent impressive photography single-owner at Freeman’s | Hindman include Eugène Atget Photographs Sold by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Forever Young: Photographs from the Joe Baio Collection; Expressions of Life: Photographs by Ruth Orkin; and Photographs, including an Important Collection of Ansel Adams.
Post War & Contemporary Art
One of the specialties of the Fine Art department is work by international artists created in the second half of the 20th century and by the leading artists of today’s generation. Post War and Contemporary Art sales include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos by 20th-century masters, including Harry Bertoia, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Peter Saul, and Tom Wesselmann. They are held in Chicago three times a year.
Prints & Multiples
From Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn to Andy Warhol and David Hockney, the artists featured in our Prints & Multiples auctions span over five centuries. These sales prominently feature prints from modern masters such as Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as works by established 20th- and 21st-century artists like Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann. Prints from esteemed studios such as Tyler Graphics, Gemini G.E.L., ULAE, and Crown Point Press are also frequently highlighted in our sales.
The Fine Art department holds three Prints & Multiples auctions annually, along with further curated online sales. Often an entry point for budding Old Master and contemporary collectors, these auctions cater to both clients looking to start a collection and seasoned collectors in search of works of the highest quality. The process of buying and selling prints requires an extraordinary level of service in order to ensure the works and their condition are exactly as described. Our specialists are always available to provide condition reports, auction estimates for works you are interested in selling, or advice on new acquisitions and the growth of your collection.
Western & Wildlife Art
The Western & Wildlife Art department specializes in handling Historic and Contemporary Western Art including works by Western pioneering artists, Taos Society Founders, living and deceased Cowboy Artist of America, New Mexico modernists, and established Southwestern artists. Other regional landscape and figural works by artists from the Western states and Colorado are among our featured consignments. The department also focuses on African and North American Wildlife paintings and bronzes. Our auctions will often showcase other authentic vintage cowboy accoutrement, saddles, furniture by important western designers and other themed material. With the help of all the Hindman regional offices quality consignments and enthusiastic buyers find their way to our Denver saleroom from across the country and abroad.
Old Masters and 19th Century European Art
Freeman's | Hindman is one of the sole auction houses outside of New York that regularly holds sales specifically dedicated to European Art and Old Masters, including paintings and works on paper ranging from the 15th through the late 19th century.
A strong emphasis on selectivity and connoisseurship paired with highly academic and well-researched essays has yielded our consignors consistently strong results by leading artists of the Renaissance, Baroque, Pre-Raphaelites, Barbizon, and La Belle Epoque working in both the UK and the Continent.
Notable successes include works by such leading names as Hubert Robert, Solomon van Ruysdael, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Charles-Amable Lenoir, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin, Léon-Augustin L'Hermitte, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Edward Burne-Jones, Johann Wilhelm Preyer, Rudolph Ernst, and Franz Unterberger.
In recent years, the firm were pleased to bring to market privately consigned major European paintings with impeccable provenance that realized world record auction prices for the very rare late 15th century Netherlandish painter Master of the Embroidered Foliage ($2.47M) and the leading Viennese Successionist Carl Moll ($4.75M), with the latter shattering the artist's previous auction record by almost tenfold.
Impressionist and Modern Art
Following successes in this exciting, and overarching collecting category, Freeman’s | Hindman is proud to announce the creation of an Impressionist and Modern Department, headed by French native Raphaël Chatroux. The inaugural sale will take place in Philadelphia, a city long associated with Impressionism, Surrealism, Fauvism and Symbolism. Bolstered by strong results for works by Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Carl Moll, Robert Delaunay and others, the October event will include works by Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Françoise Gilot and many others.
American Art
Freeman's | Hindman's American Art department specializes in paintings, drawings, and sculpture by artists working in America from the 19th century through the 1970s.
Auctions feature works of Modernism, American Impressionism, Hudson River School, Ashcan, Regionalism, plus other movements and genres. Freeman’s | Hindman sales have achieved exceptional results for renowned artists such as three generations of the celebrated Wyeth family (N.C. Wyeth, son Andrew and daughter Henriette, and grandson Jamie), Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and Jasper Francis Cropsey; icons of American art and illustration like Norman Rockwell; graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, such as Cecilia Beaux and Arthur B. Carles; and notable Philadelphia figures like William Glackens, Jessie Willcox Smith, and the Peale family (Charles Willson, Rembrandt, and Raphaelle).
The Freeman's | Hindman team of American Art specialists brings years of expertise to its auctions, resulting in standout sales. In recent years, the department won the consignment of several major American art collections, including The George D. Horst Collection of Fine Art ($4.4M), The Collection of Dorrance “Dodo” H. Hamilton ($6.1M), and The Ottenberg Collection—all white-glove sales that yielded impressive prices for works by American artists, from Frank Weston Benson and Jonas Lie to Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, and Martha Walter.
Photographs
Freeman's | Hindman's Photographs department sells high-quality photographs, from early 19th century to contemporary works of art.
Freeman’s | Hindman Photographs sales feature works by blue-chip artists such as Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Hans Bellmer, Dawoud Bey, Edward Burtynsky, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Christenberry, Edward S. Curtis, Bruce Davidson, Roy DeCarava, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ernst Haas, Horst P. Horst, Pieter Hugo, Peter Hujar, Chris Killip, William Klein, Joseph Koudelka, Justine Kurland, Dorothea Lange, Saul Leiter, O. Winston Link, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz, Helmut Newton, Ruth Orkin, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, Angela Strassheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, Roman Vishniac, Massimo Vitali, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand and Joel-Peter Witkin.
Recent impressive photography single-owner at Freeman’s | Hindman include Eugène Atget Photographs Sold by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Forever Young: Photographs from the Joe Baio Collection; Expressions of Life: Photographs by Ruth Orkin; and Photographs, including an Important Collection of Ansel Adams.
Post War & Contemporary Art
One of the specialties of the Fine Art department is work by international artists created in the second half of the 20th century and by the leading artists of today’s generation. Post War and Contemporary Art sales include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos by 20th-century masters, including Harry Bertoia, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Peter Saul, and Tom Wesselmann. They are held in Chicago three times a year.
Prints & Multiples
From Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn to Andy Warhol and David Hockney, the artists featured in our Prints & Multiples auctions span over five centuries. These sales prominently feature prints from modern masters such as Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as works by established 20th- and 21st-century artists like Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann. Prints from esteemed studios such as Tyler Graphics, Gemini G.E.L., ULAE, and Crown Point Press are also frequently highlighted in our sales.
The Fine Art department holds three Prints & Multiples auctions annually, along with further curated online sales. Often an entry point for budding Old Master and contemporary collectors, these auctions cater to both clients looking to start a collection and seasoned collectors in search of works of the highest quality. The process of buying and selling prints requires an extraordinary level of service in order to ensure the works and their condition are exactly as described. Our specialists are always available to provide condition reports, auction estimates for works you are interested in selling, or advice on new acquisitions and the growth of your collection.
Western & Wildlife Art
The Western & Wildlife Art department specializes in handling Historic and Contemporary Western Art including works by Western pioneering artists, Taos Society Founders, living and deceased Cowboy Artist of America, New Mexico modernists, and established Southwestern artists. Other regional landscape and figural works by artists from the Western states and Colorado are among our featured consignments. The department also focuses on African and North American Wildlife paintings and bronzes. Our auctions will often showcase other authentic vintage cowboy accoutrement, saddles, furniture by important western designers and other themed material. With the help of all the Hindman regional offices quality consignments and enthusiastic buyers find their way to our Denver saleroom from across the country and abroad.
Old Masters and 19th Century European Art
Freeman's | Hindman is one of the sole auction houses outside of New York that regularly holds sales specifically dedicated to European Art and Old Masters, including paintings and works on paper ranging from the 15th through the late 19th century.
A strong emphasis on selectivity and connoisseurship paired with highly academic and well-researched essays has yielded our consignors consistently strong results by leading artists of the Renaissance, Baroque, Pre-Raphaelites, Barbizon, and La Belle Epoque working in both the UK and the Continent.
Notable successes include works by such leading names as Hubert Robert, Solomon van Ruysdael, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Charles-Amable Lenoir, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin, Léon-Augustin L'Hermitte, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Edward Burne-Jones, Johann Wilhelm Preyer, Rudolph Ernst, and Franz Unterberger.
In recent years, the firm were pleased to bring to market privately consigned major European paintings with impeccable provenance that realized world record auction prices for the very rare late 15th century Netherlandish painter Master of the Embroidered Foliage ($2.47M) and the leading Viennese Successionist Carl Moll ($4.75M), with the latter shattering the artist's previous auction record by almost tenfold.
Impressionist and Modern Art
Following successes in this exciting, and overarching collecting category, Freeman’s | Hindman is proud to announce the creation of an Impressionist and Modern Department, headed by French native Raphaël Chatroux. The inaugural sale will take place in Philadelphia, a city long associated with Impressionism, Surrealism, Fauvism and Symbolism. Bolstered by strong results for works by Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Carl Moll, Robert Delaunay and others, the October event will include works by Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Françoise Gilot and many others.
American Art
Freeman's | Hindman's American Art department specializes in paintings, drawings, and sculpture by artists working in America from the 19th century through the 1970s.
Auctions feature works of Modernism, American Impressionism, Hudson River School, Ashcan, Regionalism, plus other movements and genres. Freeman’s | Hindman sales have achieved exceptional results for renowned artists such as three generations of the celebrated Wyeth family (N.C. Wyeth, son Andrew and daughter Henriette, and grandson Jamie), Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and Jasper Francis Cropsey; icons of American art and illustration like Norman Rockwell; graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, such as Cecilia Beaux and Arthur B. Carles; and notable Philadelphia figures like William Glackens, Jessie Willcox Smith, and the Peale family (Charles Willson, Rembrandt, and Raphaelle).
The Freeman's | Hindman team of American Art specialists brings years of expertise to its auctions, resulting in standout sales. In recent years, the department won the consignment of several major American art collections, including The George D. Horst Collection of Fine Art ($4.4M), The Collection of Dorrance “Dodo” H. Hamilton ($6.1M), and The Ottenberg Collection—all white-glove sales that yielded impressive prices for works by American artists, from Frank Weston Benson and Jonas Lie to Childe Hassam, Martin Johnson Heade, and Martha Walter.
Photographs
Freeman's | Hindman's Photographs department sells high-quality photographs, from early 19th century to contemporary works of art.
Freeman’s | Hindman Photographs sales feature works by blue-chip artists such as Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Hans Bellmer, Dawoud Bey, Edward Burtynsky, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Christenberry, Edward S. Curtis, Bruce Davidson, Roy DeCarava, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ernst Haas, Horst P. Horst, Pieter Hugo, Peter Hujar, Chris Killip, William Klein, Joseph Koudelka, Justine Kurland, Dorothea Lange, Saul Leiter, O. Winston Link, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Misrach, Vik Muniz, Helmut Newton, Ruth Orkin, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Sebastião Salgado, Cindy Sherman, Angela Strassheim, Wolfgang Tillmans, Roman Vishniac, Massimo Vitali, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand and Joel-Peter Witkin.
Recent impressive photography single-owner at Freeman’s | Hindman include Eugène Atget Photographs Sold by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Forever Young: Photographs from the Joe Baio Collection; Expressions of Life: Photographs by Ruth Orkin; and Photographs, including an Important Collection of Ansel Adams.
Post War & Contemporary Art
One of the specialties of the Fine Art department is work by international artists created in the second half of the 20th century and by the leading artists of today’s generation. Post War and Contemporary Art sales include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos by 20th-century masters, including Harry Bertoia, Lee Bontecou, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, Kenneth Noland, Pablo Picasso, Peter Saul, and Tom Wesselmann. They are held in Chicago three times a year.
Prints & Multiples
From Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn to Andy Warhol and David Hockney, the artists featured in our Prints & Multiples auctions span over five centuries. These sales prominently feature prints from modern masters such as Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as works by established 20th- and 21st-century artists like Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, and Tom Wesselmann. Prints from esteemed studios such as Tyler Graphics, Gemini G.E.L., ULAE, and Crown Point Press are also frequently highlighted in our sales.
The Fine Art department holds three Prints & Multiples auctions annually, along with further curated online sales. Often an entry point for budding Old Master and contemporary collectors, these auctions cater to both clients looking to start a collection and seasoned collectors in search of works of the highest quality. The process of buying and selling prints requires an extraordinary level of service in order to ensure the works and their condition are exactly as described. Our specialists are always available to provide condition reports, auction estimates for works you are interested in selling, or advice on new acquisitions and the growth of your collection.
Western & Wildlife Art
The Western & Wildlife Art department specializes in handling Historic and Contemporary Western Art including works by Western pioneering artists, Taos Society Founders, living and deceased Cowboy Artist of America, New Mexico modernists, and established Southwestern artists. Other regional landscape and figural works by artists from the Western states and Colorado are among our featured consignments. The department also focuses on African and North American Wildlife paintings and bronzes. Our auctions will often showcase other authentic vintage cowboy accoutrement, saddles, furniture by important western designers and other themed material. With the help of all the Hindman regional offices quality consignments and enthusiastic buyers find their way to our Denver saleroom from across the country and abroad.
Old Masters and 19th Century European Art
Freeman's | Hindman is one of the sole auction houses outside of New York that regularly holds sales specifically dedicated to European Art and Old Masters, including paintings and works on paper ranging from the 15th through the late 19th century.
A strong emphasis on selectivity and connoisseurship paired with highly academic and well-researched essays has yielded our consignors consistently strong results by leading artists of the Renaissance, Baroque, Pre-Raphaelites, Barbizon, and La Belle Epoque working in both the UK and the Continent.
Notable successes include works by such leading names as Hubert Robert, Solomon van Ruysdael, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Charles-Amable Lenoir, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Eugène Boudin, Léon-Augustin L'Hermitte, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Edward Burne-Jones, Johann Wilhelm Preyer, Rudolph Ernst, and Franz Unterberger.
In recent years, the firm were pleased to bring to market privately consigned major European paintings with impeccable provenance that realized world record auction prices for the very rare late 15th century Netherlandish painter Master of the Embroidered Foliage ($2.47M) and the leading Viennese Successionist Carl Moll ($4.75M), with the latter shattering the artist's previous auction record by almost tenfold.
Impressionist and Modern Art
Following successes in this exciting, and overarching collecting category, Freeman’s | Hindman is proud to announce the creation of an Impressionist and Modern Department, headed by French native Raphaël Chatroux. The inaugural sale will take place in Philadelphia, a city long associated with Impressionism, Surrealism, Fauvism and Symbolism. Bolstered by strong results for works by Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Carl Moll, Robert Delaunay and others, the October event will include works by Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Françoise Gilot and many others.
Department Highlights
Auction Specialists
Zack Wirsum
SVP, Head of Department, Post War and Contemporary Art
Monica Brown
Managing Director, Vice President, Fine Art, Head of Department, Prints and Multiples
Madalina Lazen
AVP, Head of Department, European Art
Mr. Aaron Cator
Senior Specialist, Post War & Contemporary Art
Pauline Archambault
AVP, Senior Specialist, Fine Art
Alexandria Dreas
Specialist, Head of Sale, Western Art, Denver
Raphaël Chatroux
VP, Head of Department, Modern and Impressionist Art
Julianna Tancredi
Senior Researcher, Fine Art
Lauren Colavita
Associate Specialist, Fine Art
Alasdair Nichol
EVP, Deputy Chairman
Adam Veil
VP, Head of Department, American Art
David Weiss
SVP, Fine Art
Adrianne Wolkenberg
Specialist, Business Manager, Fine Art
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