Ted Turner's son says his Western art collection reflects the media mogul's passion for 'big'

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Ted Turner didn't do small.Whether racing sailboats, building CNN into a global news organization or buying up ranches across the U.S. West to become one of the largest landowners in the nation, the media mogul turned conservationist had a passion for big, his son, Teddy Turner, said in an interview.And so it was with the art lining the log walls of Turner's sprawling Flying D Ranch in south central Montana: Paintings by American masters Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt capture the grandeur and beauty of the early Western landscape when it was still largely untouched by European settlers.Over Turner's imposing stone fireplace was a painting of Yosemite Valley. Elsewhere in his home were images of the Grand Canyon, Oregon's Mount Jefferson and a Bierstadt work titled “Buffalo at Sunset,” depicting a group of bison near a pool of water that reflects a glaring sun.Turner died in May and a collection of the paintings from his Montana ranch are due to be auctioned on