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Charles Marion Russell

"Charlie Russell" redirects here. For other uses, see Charlie Russell (disambiguation).
Charles M. Russell
Russell in 1907
Born(1864-03-19)March 19, 1864
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
DiedOctober 24, 1926(1926-10-24) (aged 62)
Great Falls, Montana, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting, bronze sculpture

Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926),[1][2] also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. He is known as "the cowboy artist"[3] and was also a storyteller and author. He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana. In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation.

The C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Great Falls, Montana houses more than 2,000 Russell artworks, personal objects, and artifacts. Other major collections are held at the Montana Historical Society in Helena, Montana, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth. His 1912 mural Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross' Hole hangs in the House chambers of the Montana Capitol in Helena,[4] and his 1918 painting Piegans sold for $5.6 million at a 2005 auction.[5] In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[6]

  1. ^ Dates and locations taken from Charles M. Russell, pg.1 & 318
  2. ^ Opitz, Glenn B., ed. (1987). Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of american Painters, Sculptors & Engravers. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo Book. pp. 1047. ISBN 0-938290-04-5.
  3. ^ Dippie, Brian W. (2005). "Russell, Charles Marion". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  4. ^ "Montana Historical Society Museum Collections Online". Montana Historical Society Museum Collections Online. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
  5. ^ "2005 auction results". Coeur d'Alene Art Auction. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008. Retrieved July 26, 2008.
  6. ^ "Hall of Great Westerners". National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Retrieved November 22, 2019.

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