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“He’s No Parlor Car Artist”

by | Jul 4, 2010 | Art, Guns and Culture

William Robinson Leigh sets a record as his work nears the million-dollar mark.
“Remington, Russell and Leigh were once as familiar to the art world as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to musicians, or Tinker, Evers and Chance to baseball fans.” That’s how a newspaper from William Robinson Leigh’s home state of West Virginia, the Parkersburg Sentinel, celebrated the artist on May 1, 1954. On May 20, 2010, Christie’s New


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