Trailblazer: Ted Turner's America

Tylee Abbott serves as Vice President and Head of the American Art department. In addition to overseeing the department, he assists clients with all aspects of art collecting, from acquisition and sales to appraisals.

With a particular affinity for Western American Art, Tylee has played key roles in Christie’s marquee single owner auctions The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection and Visions of the West: American Paintings from the William I. Koch Collection. Notable auction results within these collections include Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth among others. Tylee has also contributed meaningfully to noteworthy results for artists ranging from Alfred Jacob Miller to Victor Higgins and Rebecca Salsbury James.

Prior to joining Christie’s, Tylee held roles across the art world, including with another major New York auction company, as an independent art advisor, and at private galleries. He has also authored over 50 articles on the American and Western American Art markets. Tylee holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Business from Franklin & Marshall College and a Masters in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art – London.

Quincie Dixon is responsible for running Christie’s dedicated American Art auctions, as well as serving her private and institutional clients with their art collecting, selling and appraisal needs. She began her career at another major auction house and spent several years with a prominent American Art dealer before joining Christie’s, where she has held several roles within the American Art department. During her more than ten years in the industry, Quincie has been quoted across a range of financial and art market news outlets and has been featured on NY1.

Quincie has played a role in the department’s most significant achievements and countless world record sales, including the top price ever paid for a work of American Art with the sale of Edward Hopper’s Chop Suey at more than $91million during the Barney A. Ebsworth sale (2018), as well as the record price for a 19th Century work of American Art with the sale of Emmanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware at more than $45million (2022). She has held roles within the department’s most significant single-owner collection sales including The Paul G. Allen Collection, the most valuable collection sale in auction history (2022).

As Head of Sale, Quincie leads the department’s dynamic auctions of 19th Century American Art each January and Modern American Art each April, and holds leadership roles within Christie’s annual Americana Week and Modern New York Week. Quincie played a significant role in producing the most valuable Americana Week on record, in which the department achieved an unprecedented $110million during Christie’s America250 edition sales (2026). Quincie has also played important roles in the rise of the department’s leadership in the Western art market. She was involved in three of the four highest grossing single-owner sales records set by Christie’s, including as Head of Sale for the largest single-owner Western art auction of all time, the blockbuster Visions of the West: The William I. Koch Collection (2026) that achieved over $84million and shattered the previous record for the most valuable Western art collection by more than three times. Visions of the West produced five new artist records including for Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell.

Apart from her role in auctions, Quincie is responsible for the placement of works through Christie’s private sale channel. She has been involved in transactions for a wide range of artists from Thomas Cole to Norman Rockwell, up to the eight-figure price point, and has experience with the placement of works in major institutions.