Contemporary & Modern: Art + Design
Sept. 2026
Circle Auction is currently collecting consignments for our September 2026 Modern + Contemporary: Art and Design auction. The auction will include a contemporary studio pottery collection with works by Kensuke Yamada, Wesley Harvey, Sunkoo Yuh, Richard Notkin, Jim Leedy, Warren MacKenzie, Chris Gustin, Beth Lo, Ron Meyers, Bede Clarke, Soojin Choi, Peter Voulkos, and others.
We are currently accepting consignments of modern and contemporary art, studio ceramics, sculpture, prints, multiples, and mid-century modern design, including furniture and objects by Herman Miller, Knoll, Dunbar, Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, Hans Wegner, George Nelson, Eero Saarinen, Florence Knoll, Paul McCobb, George Nakashima, Milo Baughman, Finn Juhl, Arne Vodder, and other Scandinavian and postwar designers.
We are also seeking works by local, regional, and national artists including Wilbur Niewald, Roy Lichtenstein, Lisa Grossman, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Ferguson, Warren Rosser, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Robert Sudlow, Stanley Lewis, and other artists working in modern, postwar, and contemporary categories.
Questions?
If you are interested in consigning in the auction or have any questions, please reach out to us at:
913-403-0032
Kansas City Collections
Circle Auction is accepting consignments for our upcoming 2026 Kansas City Collections. This signature sale features fine art and regionalist works, with a focus on leading Midwest artists like Benton, Sandzén, Curry, Grant Wood, and Bingham. We are also seeking rare coins, bullion, sterling, bronzes, fine jewelry, rare books, antiques, and other standout pieces. Have something exceptional? We’d love to review it.
The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton: The Decker Collection
A rare single-owner group of Thomas Hart Benton lithographs, collected by Dr. Clarence R. Decker (UKC president, 1938–1953). Many are personally inscribed to Clarence and Mary Decker, reflecting their documented personal connection with Benton in Kansas City. Highlights include Prayer Meeting, commissioned by Decker in 1949 and recorded in Creekmore Fath’s catalogue raisonné. Fresh to market from long-term family ownership.