In the years and decades that followed
the auction in Houston, Acheff would go
on to create some of his most iconic works:
This Song’s For You, which holds his auction
record, set in 2007 for $145,000; Jewel of the
Southwest, a work that features a photograph
by Edward S. Curtis, a favorite subject of the
artist; Hopi View, which hangs at the Eiteljorg
Museum next to the William R. Leigh work
that is painted within it; and two Prix de West
purchase award winners in 1984 and 2004.
And although his career is now in its 50th
year, Acheff, like a donkey reaching for a carrot
on a stick, is still inspired by new ideas and
subject matter. This was abundantly clear at this
year’s Masters of the American West exhibition atthe Autry Museum of the American West, where
he presented Times are Still A-Changin’, a work
that called back to his history in San Francisco.
The piece features Milton Glaser’s famous poster
of Bob Dylan, and underneath it a pot with
daisies and another pot with...well, pot.
“Everyone has seen the poster at some point
in their life. I had heard Dylan’s music in SanWarm
Thoughts
and
Memories,
oil on panel,
9 x 7”