Western Art Week in Great Falls, Montana, featured a trinity of auctions with the highest-grossing one, "The Russell," tallying $1.57 million. Popular lots included Grace Carpenter Hudson's (1865-1937) "Wip-on and the Poppies," which sold for $55,000; Ogden Minton Pleissner's (1905-1983) "Poling Up the York" ($65,000); and an Edgar Samuel Paxson watercolor which brought $4,500.

Living artists brought some of the highest prices. The top lot was an Andy Thomas oil, "Stampede! Stampede!" which went for $80,000.

Total figures for the Russell Museum's new "The Russell" fund-raising auction were closely trailed by March in Montana, and the original fundraising sale, the Ad Club's C.M. Russell Auction