DALLAS, TX.- Five records were set to help drive the final total for Heritage Auctions’ American Auction to $5,323,688 Nov. 1 in Dallas, Texas. The sale achieved particularly strong results in Golden Age Illustration Art.

“This auction is further evidence of Heritage’s position as a leader in the field of Golden Age Illustration Art,” Heritage Auctions Vice President and American Art Director Aviva Lehmann said. “Artists like Norman Rockwell, Andrew Wyeth, Christian Leyendecker and Howard Pyle are enormously popular among collectors, and all were well-represented in this sale. Aside from works by blue chip artists, we also established new records for other Golden Age Illustrators, with masterworks by Thorton Utz and George Hughes. We offered quality material, and our audience appropriately responded.”

Multiple bidders drove Frederic Remington’s The Bronco Buster to a final selling price of $615,000. The rare 1.5-scale work is one of just 19 casts made from a large-scale plaster model of his iconic sculpture; others can be found in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.

Andrew Newell Wyeth's Coldspell, 1965 also drew numerous bids before closing at $250,000. Originally painted for his wife, Betsy, Coldspell hung in the artist’s bedroom until 1966, when the consignor’s grandmother bought it directly from the artist.

Frederick Carl Frieseke’s En Promenade, 1908 and Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s Ice Skaters, The Popular Magazine cover, March 1909 each caught the attention of several bidders before finishing at $225,000.

Heritage continues to draw top prices from Golden Age Illustration Art, as was the case with Norman Rockwell The Night Before Christmas (Santa Peering over Chair at Sleeping Child), Literary Digest magazine cover, December 22, 1923, which brought $375,000, Joseph Leyendecker’s Ice Skaters ($112,500 – a record for the highest price at auction for the artist’s works that did not appear on a Saturday Evening Post cover) and Howard Pyle’s Becky Sharp and Lord Steyne, Pictures from Thackeray at $96,875.

Of the records that were set, four were in Illustration Art. The new records included:

• $206,250: Thorton Utz Love's Lost Child at the Information Booth, The Saturday Evening Post cover, December 20, 1958 – a new auction record for the artist.

• $112,500: Leyendecker’s Ice Skaters – a record price for the artist for work that did not appear on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.

• $87,500: George Hughes Dinner Party, The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 11, 1961 – a new auction record for the artist.

• $58,750: John Stobart San Francisco Cowell's Wharf, 1981.

• $30,000: Harold Anderson Kitchen Haircut, The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 11, 1933 – a new auction record for the artist.

Other top lots included, but were not limited to:

• Milton Avery’s Mexican Woman, 1949: $200,000.

• G. Harvey's When the Cowboys Come to Town – Houston 1900, 1983: $162,500.

• Milton Avery Agua, 1946: $137,500.

• Howard A. Terpning’s Jicarilla Apache Raiders, 1975: $125,000.