Circle Auction presents Art & Antiques 2026, featuring fine art, decorative arts, jewelry, and furniture 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 paintings including Henry Stull, Samuel de Wilde, Cesare Lapini, and Karl Kaufmann; and American works including Robert Sudlow, Birger Sandzen, and Karl Albert. Also featured are selections of fine jewelry, 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.