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December 08, 2017
Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is hard for me to believe that I have been a part of the antique American Indian art business for more than forty years. Beginning as a collector in the ‘70s, I established Morning Star Gallery in 1980 in Santa Fe, New Mexico; was a partner in Grimmer-Roche; and have again become a sole gallery owner. Along the way, I have had the opportunity to help bring antique American Indian art into the — (pdf)
July 26, 2017
H. Malcolm Grimmer Antique American Indian Art will host a show of ledger art Aug 15th-18 at The Antique American Indian Art Show in the Santa Fe Railyard. The show will include drawings from the Amidon ledger book and select pages from multiple other ledger books. For more information email [email protected]. — Continue Reading
July 26, 2017
H. Malcolm Grimmer gallery director Thomas Cleary was recently interviewed in Cowboys and Indians Magazine for their article on antique Native American ledger Art. — Continue Reading (pdf)
June 15, 2017
Check out our interview in the June/July 2017 Blouin Art and Auction Magazine. — Continue Reading
April 28, 2017
The Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association and the School for Advanced Research will present Understanding Cultural Property: A Path to Healing Through Communication, with a full day public presentation by tribal representatives, specialized legal counsel, art professionals, museum personnel and various other interest groups. — Continue Reading (pdf)
April 06, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the promised gift from Charles and Valerie Diker of 91 works of Native American art—a selection of recognized masterworks from the collection they assembled over more than four decades. Joining another 20 works already given by the Dikers during the past two decades, these examples — Continue Reading
September 18, 2016
An exceptional collection of pre-1890 moccasins chronicles their use as both nomadic necessity and artistic canvas. — Continue Reading (pdf)
September 17, 2016
Native American moccasins go back to the time when people needed to protect their feet in harsh climates. Common to all tribes, moccasins evolved over the centuries from simple, stitched hide foot coverings to elaborately beaded works of functional art with structural and stylistic difference from tribe to tribe. — Continue Reading (pdf)
September 01, 2016
Native American ledger art tells stories of Plains Indian life. A question and answer article about contemporary ledger art vs. historical ledger art. — Continue Reading (pdf)
August 07, 2016
“The Path to Beauty: The Art of Plains Indian Moccasins” opening on Tuesday, Aug. 16, showcases about 40 moccasins embellished with the historic beadwork of female artists during the late 19th century. The exhibition/sale is part of the Objects of Art Santa Fe and Antique American Indian Art Show at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. The show runs through Aug. 19. — Continue Reading
July 15, 2016
Among the Native American warriors of the Great Plains, there was no system of military rank. In order to lead in battle, a soldier had to convince his comrades to follow him, to persuade them that he had the best plan ans was the most competent to carry it out. Consequently, the tribes' military clothing was not a uniform adorned with generic stripes but a highly individual expression of personal valor and achievement. — Continue Reading (pdf)
May 23, 2016
H. Malcolm Grimmer: Antique American Indian Art, of Santa Fe, NM, is proud to present, “The Path to Beauty: the Art of Plains Indian Moccasins”, a show celebrating some of the finest historic Plains Indian moccasins extant. The show will be held at El Museo, at the Antique American Indian Art Show, August 16 th – 19 th , 2016, in Santa Fe, NM. — Continue Reading (pdf)
March 10, 2016
Tom Cleary featured speaker at 2016 ASA Personal Property Annual Connoisseurship Conference. — Continue Reading
June 15, 2014
When the 2014 edition of the METRO Show opens for its five-day run on Wednesday evening January 22, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, fairgoers will experience a thoroughly engaging new concept billed METRO Curates. — Continue Reading
June 01, 2014
THE SHERIDAN PAGES: At the heart of the Southern Cheyenne warrior. The Sheridan Pages, a fine collection of c. 1870 ledger drawings, demonstrates the softer side of warriors of the Southern Cheyenne which lay underneath their warlike reputation. — Continue Reading (pdf)
January 24, 2014
[An] amazing collection: a rare group of drawings called “The Sheridan Pages” at H. Malcolm Grimmer. The drawings were made by Cheyenne Indians around 1870 in colored pencil on ledger paper brought into the area by white businessmen to keep track of financial transactions. Originally collected by a lawyer, John L. Sheridan, who was the brother of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan and discovered inside one of John’s books, they show the courtship rituals of a tribe better known as warriors. — Continue Reading
January 25, 2013
H. Malcolm Grimmer has an excellent show of drawings from a recently discovered Sioux ledger book from about 1880. Anonymous Plains Indians carefully drew these scenes of hunting, fighting and courting in pencil and crayon on oblong rectangles of lined paper in books supplied by United States military personnel. — Continue Reading
January 01, 2013
Native American arts specialist H. Malcolm Grimmer of Santa Fe sold twenty-four illustrations from a circa 1880 ledger book of Sioux drawings at the Metro Show in January for prices ranging from about $5,000 to $15,000. — Continue Reading (pdf)
January 01, 2012
The Macnider Ledger Book: Coloring the Plains. The Macnider Ledger Book is a unique historical and artistic document. Drawn in the 1880s by several Sioux warriors, this book recalls Sioux life just before the onset of the Reservation Period. — Continue Reading (pdf)