Charles Marion Russell

4  Mourning Her Warrior Dead
4  On the Pond
4 Charles Marion Russell On the Prowl
4  The Bison Trail
4  Waiting and Mad
4  When Shadows Hint Death
5  At Rope-s End
5 Charles Marion Russell Blackfeet Burning Crow Buffalo Range by American art paintings abstract oil painting
5  Bringing Home the Spoils
5  Buffalo Hunt
5  Capturing the Grizzly
5  Carson-s Men
5 Charles Marion Russell Four Mounted Indians (Charles Marion Russell circa 1914) by American oil painting and abstract art
5  Horse of the Hunter aka Fresh Meat
5  In the Wake of the Buffalo Hunters
5  Indian Attack
5 Indians on Plains

Charles Marion Russell
American painter & sculptor
born 1864 - died 1926

Friend of: Olaf C. Seltzer (1877-1957)

Charles M. Russell - Montana's most famous artist, and, along with Frederic Remington, one of the two most famous artists ever to paint the West - was born in St. Louis, Missouri on March 19, 1864. Charles Marion Russell came to Montana in 1880, at the age of 16, just four years after Custer's fatal last stand at the Little Big Horn.

His first job in Montana was sheepherder - and Charles Marion Russell was terrible at it. "I'd lose the damn things as fast as they put 'em on the ranch," Charles Marion Russell said later. Fired from that job, he helped professional meat hunter, Jake Hoover, spending about two years learning about Indians, wildlife, and Montana's past.

In 1882 Charles Marion Russell went to work as a cowboy, working as night wrangler on cattle drives and round-ups. During the bitter cold winter of 1886-1887, Charlie was staying on the O.H. Ranch. In a reply to the owners of the ranch who asked about the condition of their herd, Charlie drew a sketch of a gaunt, starving cow surrounded by wolves, and titled it "Waiting for a Chinook" The sketch was reproduced in the Montana newspapers, and is still today one of Charlie's best-known pictures.

During his days on the range, Charlie always had a sketch pad and some brushes with him, and occasionally Charles Marion Russell tried to make his living as an artist. But Charles Marion Russell always went back to working as a cowboy, saying he'd "rather be a poor cow puncher than a poor artist." But in 1896 his situation turned around. Charles Marion Russell married a pretty young girl named Nancy Cooper, and as soon as she took over the business end of his art career, things began to look up. Within just a few years Nancy was charging collectors what Charlie always called "dead man's prices."- Charles Marion Russell oil painting abstract paintings - Charles Marion Russell oil painting American - Charles Marion Russell Bio, abstract art oil paintings by abstract oil painting supplier of American oil paintings abstract art.

Charlie Russell died on October 24, 1926, of heart failure, and Charles Marion Russell was deeply mourned by the entire state of Montana. In Great Falls, city offices and schools were closed on the day of his funeral. His first roundup boss, Horace Brewster, told the newspaper, "He never swung a mean loop in his life, never done dirt to man or animal, in all the days Charles Marion Russell lived."

Charles Marion Russell was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 19, 1864. Charles Marion Russell was the son of a prominent family that had holdings in coal mines and brick manufacturing. Although Russell was raised with the intention of running the family business, Charles Marion Russell instead developed colorful ambitions toward becoming a cowboy. As a boy, Charles Marion Russell was a proficient rider and he adopted the ways and manners of his western heroes. His other great ambition was to paint. Charles Marion Russell was constantly sketching in his schoolbooks and his principal subjects were cowboys and Indians. In 1880, Russell set out for Montana. Charles Marion Russell arrived in Helena and took a job as a sheep herder. After a short time, Charles Marion Russell befriended Jake Hoover, a trapper and hunter, and spent two years with Hoover in the Judith Basin. All the time Charles Marion Russell continued his painting, spending long hours sketching the wild animals Charles Marion Russell observed in his daily life. Two years after moving to Montana he hired out as a cowboy, to keep watch on horses, and later as a "night hawk" to watch the cattle at night. Russell was constantly sketching during his off hours and was slowly developing a local reputation as an artist. In 1888, Russell had his first national exposure when one of his sketches appeared in Harper's Weekly, his first paid illustration. Russell's years as a cowboy were to be very important in his art. His firsthand experiences and his intimate knowledge of the cowboy's tools and ways were to produce the distinctive realism that is characteristic of his style. Charles Marion Russell portrayed actual events and people in his paintings. Many legends and stories of the West that Charles Marion Russell often used in his works were originally heard by Russell in evening discussions and camp talk during his years as a cowboy. Russell was also a fervent admirer of the American Indian and often portrayed them as heroic figures struggling to preserve their way of life. In the winter of 1888-89, Russell lived with the primitive Blood Indians in Canada. By 1892, Russell was a full-time painter.

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