Charlie russell

Paul Verlaine & Arthur Rimbaud,1873

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Charles M. Russell holds a special place as one of the West’s most beloved visual storytellers. An exciting new book tells the story of his accomplished watercolors. In 1865, the Civil War a freshly minted horror in the fledgling nation’s history, Horace Greeley fueled the dreams of Manifest Destiny by exhorting all young men to “Go West and grow up with the country.” They did, and they did not stop. Fourteen years later, on the easternmost cusp of the trans-Mississippi West, a St. Louis…

"Indian Scouting Party" 28 1/8 x 12 in., 1900 (Click on pic to see entire artwork)

Charlie Russell was living and working for the O-H Ranch in the Judith Basin during the Big Die-up winter of 1886-87. Russell’s Waiting for a Chinook was one of the first paintings the young artist produced from his experiences as a working Montana cowboy.

Among the stories in Ellen Baumler’s ‘More Montana Moments’ is the story of Charlie Russell’s ‘ghost’ pinto, Monte.

Charles Russell, "The Bucker," 1904

Charles Marion Russell, letter to friend bob

Explore Russell's art and life as he witnessed the end of the Wild West open range.