 Charles M. RussellFine Art Western Prints and Greeting Cards
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Charles M. "Charlie" Russell completed more than 3,500 works of art during his lifetime. Known as the first “Western” artist to live most of his life in the West, Charlie knew cowboys, Indians, and the West intimately, setting the benchmark later adopted by many western artists. Charlie and his wife Nancy were married in 1896 and were residents of Montana for 46 years. He had moved to Montana in 1890 at the age of 16 and worked as a night wrangler for 11 years. This gave him time during the day to sketch and observe cowboys at work. Later he painted and sculpted in his log cabin studio adjacent to his home, filling it with his collection of Indian clothing, utilities, weapons, cowboy gear, “horse jewelry,” and other western items reminiscent of the Old West It was in this log cabin, constructed in 1903, that Russell completed all of his major paintings. Charlie Russell greatly admired the American Indians, particularly those
of the Northern Plains, and spent a summer of his youth in 1888 visiting
with the Blood Indians in Alberta, Canada. This experience affected him
for the rest of his life, and can be seen in the many detailed works he
created of Plains
To view fine art prints by Charlie Russell, Click Here! Charlie Russell's prints and greeting cards on now on exhibit at the HMS Crown/Fields Gallery at 332 Kit Carson in Taos, New Mexico.
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