Steven Stern Fine Arts · Los Angeles
We buy Walter Ufer paintings
Do you own a painting by Walter Ufer (1876–1936), or are you handling an estate that includes one? Steven Stern Fine Arts would be glad to look at it. The appraisal is free, inquiries are confidential, and we will explain the choices for selling or consigning before you decide anything.
Wondering what it might be worth? See how Ufer paintings are valued.
Why owners call us
A Western art specialist for your Ufer
Familiar with Taos painting
The gallery handles paintings by members of the Taos Society of Artists, including Joseph Henry Sharp, and has sold Ufer's own work.
Free, confidential appraisal
Families and collectors who own a Ufer can write to us in confidence, and the appraisal is free. Owner and buyer names are never made public.
Purchase, consignment or private sale
A Ufer can be bought by the gallery, consigned, or placed privately, depending on what suits the picture and its owner.
The process
How a Walter Ufer sale works
Send photographs
The front, the whole reverse and the signature, plus any title, date or exhibition label on the back.
Confidential review
We consider subject, period, size, condition and history, and whether it is a Taos picture or earlier work.
Choose a route
We set out purchase, consignment and private placement for your Ufer; the decision is yours.
Viewing
For a major Ufer figure painting or a group of works, the gallery can see it in person.
Recent placements
Walter Ufer painting we have sold
One October Evening
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Who collects Walter Ufer?
Ufer is collected above all by collectors of Western American art and of the Taos art colony. He was a member of the Taos Society of Artists from 1917, and his best-known pictures show Pueblo people at work and travelling through the New Mexico landscape, painted outdoors in brilliant sunlight. In 1920 he became the first Taos artist to win a prize at the Carnegie International.
Before Taos he trained in Germany, worked in Chicago and studied again in Munich, and those earlier landscapes and portraits interest a somewhat different group of buyers. Because his output is varied, the right way to sell depends on the specific picture. Our past sales page and the biography give more background.