Bringing in close to 100 dealers from all across the country, the Great Southwestern Antique Show has always been about diverse offerings. While the annual event is known for emphasizing Native American art and artifacts-as well as Western and Southwest objects-it also offers collectors the chance to explore tribal and ethnographic art, vintage jewelry, Mexican art and more.
Attendees explore art and artifacts during a past Great Southwestern Antique Show.
“We’ve been very fortunate since we’ve had a 22-year track record of being a successful show, and we have new dealers coming in from Pennsylvania, Florida, Missouri, California and one from Arizona,” says show owner Terry Schurmeier. “So we’re getting some new dealers that offer more diversity to the show, which is exciting for us…While it’s called the Great Southwestern Antique Show, we’ve always exposed people to all kinds of arts and antiques from around the world.”
Left to right: 1880s Hisat (or one who no longer appears), 12"; 1920s Two Horn variant, 10”; 1950s Jimmie Koots, Heart of the Cosmos, 11”; Gerry Quotskuyva Black Ogre, 2020, 15”. Courtesy Buffalo Barry’s Indian Art.
Among the many Native American treasures that can be found at the 2022 event are historic Hopi katsinam from Buffalo Barry’s Indian Art, a circa 1860 Plains buffalo horn headdress from Cowboy Legacy Gallery, a woven Navajo serape from around 1870 to 1875 from Smoot Antiques and an Inuit rawhide and sealskin kayak from the Ragman Antiques. Other dealers of Indigenous art and artifacts participating this year include Cowboys & Indians Antiques, Miles and Miles Trading, Toadlena Trading Post and Barry Friedman Blankets, to name a few.
Plains buffalo horn headdress, ca. 1860, sinew-sewn buffalo hide cap; horns attached at side using hide thongs; band of red and white quilled slats at brow, 20 x 8¼". Courtesy Cowboy Legacy Gallery.
“We’re really proud to be the kick-off event for August in New Mexico and really celebrating the diversity of art and antiques that we provide,” says Schurmeier.
Navajo woven serape, ca. 1870-75, indigo and rabbit brush yellow lightning bands with three centrally placed sawtoothed diamond clouds, all on a salmon field of aniline red wools recarded with natural white. Courtesy Smoot Antiques.
The Charity Preview takes place Friday, August 5, from 1 to 6 p.m., with all proceeds going to New Mexico PBS, for educational and arts programming. The show opens Saturday, August 6, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m, and continues through Sunday, August 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Children gain free admission to both the Charity Preview and the general show.
August 6-7, 2022
Great Southwestern Antique Show
Lujan Center, Expo New Mexico, 300 San Pedro SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108
www.gswevents.com, (505) 255-4054
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