NEW YORK, N.Y.- American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture brought $24,557,750 at Sotheby’s New York, above a low estimate of $22.3 million* and with 71.2% percent of the lots sold. The auction was highlighted by a group of four paintings of Native Americans by 19th century artist George Catlin, on offer from The Field Museum in Chicago and originally in the collection of Benjamin O’Fallon – nephew of William Clark and the ‘United States Indian Agent’ for the Missouri River Tribes. Together the works brought $4,576,000, led by Interior of a Mandan Lodge that sold for $1,538,500 above a high estimate of $1.2 million. Five determined bidders drove Marsden Hartley’s Untitled (Still Life) to a remarkable $3,218,500, more than three times the high estimate of $900,000 and the single highest price in today’s auction. The work was on offer from the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg