Ted Turner’s Son Says His Western Art Collection Reflects the Media Mogul’s Passion for ‘Big’ – WTOP News
The sale will fund the Turner Foundation’s habitat and species restoration work, and the collection includes paintings by Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt.
- On January 20, Christie's will auction a collection of Western paintings from late media mogul Ted Turner's Montana ranch, featuring American masters Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt capturing early landscapes.
- Proceeds from the sale will benefit the Turner Foundation to support habitat preservation and species restoration on Turner's 178-square-mile properties where bison herds now number 45,000.
- Ted Turner's son, Teddy Turner, said his father viewed the art as perfection, seeking works depicting a bygone West. "They were always in the great rooms," Teddy Turner said of their central role in family life.
- The collection includes images of the Grand Canyon, Mount Jefferson, and a Bierstadt work titled "Buffalo at Sunset," alongside a painting of Yosemite Valley that hung over the ranch fireplace.
- Teddy Turner noted that replacing the Bierstadt over the mantel would be difficult, joking that "I think maybe some Pulp Fiction posters?" would not suffice as the family acknowledges the art will be sorely missed.
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Ted Turner’s son says his Western art collection reflects the media mogul’s passion for ‘big’ – WTOP News
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Ted Turner didn’t do small. Whether racing sailboats, building CNN into a global news organization or buying up ranches across the U.S. West to become one of the largest landowners in the nation, the media mogul turned conservationist had a passion for big, his son, Teddy Turner, said in an interview....
Ted Turner's son says his Western art collection reflects the med
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Ted Turner didn’t do small. Whether racing sailboats , building CNN into a global news organization or buying up ranches across the U.S. West to become one of the largest landowners in the
Ted Turner’s American views can be yours
By Choire Sicha, CNN (CNN) — A slew of paintings that once belonged to Ted Turner will go on sale in January. The works, by Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran, are sweeping views of the American landscape by immigrants who came to love the natural land even as it was bloodily becoming a country. To
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