Circle Auction presents KC Collections: Art, Antiques, and Jewelry, featuring curated selections from consignors around the region. Included among the fine art selections are Regionalist prints including Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry; European and American paintings including Henry Stull, Samuel de Wilde, and Robert Sudlow; and sculpture including Hippolyte Moreau. Fine jewelry and watches including Rolex, Cartier, and Julius Cohen; sterling silver, porcelain, antique French furniture, Continental decorative arts, and movie and comic collectibles.
Circle Auction is proud to offer an outstanding collection of lithographs by artist Thomas Hart Benton, assembled by the late Dr. Clarence R. Decker, the president of the University of Kansas City from 1938-1953. Under Decker's tenure in that position, he helped to grow the university many times over, and he played an instrumental role in its accreditation. Decker created a program inviting visiting artists including Benton. Creekmore Fath's catalogue raisonne of Benton prints notes that Decker commissioned the lithograph "Prayer Meeting" (1949), circulated by the UMKC bookstore.