About W Steve Seltzer

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Steve Seltzer, William Steve Seltzer
  • Biography

    The following, submitted February 2005, is from Mary Scriver of Valier, Montana.
    She is the widow of Bob Scriver, western sculptor and sponsor of the Scriver Award at the C.M. Russell Auctions.

    On February 7, 2005, in Great Falls, Montana, $21 million in compensatory damages was awarded to Steve Seltzer, artist. The defendants were Steve Morton, Dennis Gladwell, and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, a prominent 800 member California law firm.

    Seltzer's grandfather, O.C. Seltzer, and Charles M. Russell were contemporaries who liked to paint together, often addressing the same subjects. Some thought their work was enough alike for each to be mistaken for the other guy. When the boom in "cowboy art" came,...

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