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Spirit of the West: Premier March Native American & Western Auction

Sat, Mar 14, 2026 11:00AM EDT
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Lot 93

Paul Krapf Mission Church at Laguna Watercolour

Estimate: $750 - $1,500
Starting Bid
$150

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Featured in this lot is an Original Signed Paul Krapf Watercolour "Mission Church at Laguna Pueblo", dated 1971. This watercolour painting displays the historic white-washed San Jose de la Laguna Mission and Convento in Laguna, New Mexico. The adobe building dating from 1699, is one of the best preserved buildings of its type in the United States. Spanish colonial missions were communities built by Spanish Catholic friars to convert Indigenous peoples to Catholicism and Spanish culture. Paul Krapf (1927-2019) was a wildlife and landscape artist from Gardiner, Montana at the southern end of the beautiful Paradise Valley north of majestic Yellowstone National Park. His house and studio were built along the Yellowstone River 11 miles north of the park. The inhabitants of Yellowstone National Park were his frequent subjects. He also produced coastal views, especially Oregon’s, as well as Western scenes and landscapes. This beautiful watercolour painting is in very nice condition overall, fragments from having been previously mounted attached to reverse of paper, signed and dated on bottom right. corner. Measures 15.25"W x 22.25"L.*

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