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Your Guide to Gifts of Horse Art
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His artistic skills developed while working as a cowhand and wrangler where he began sketching for the amusement of his companions.
As an artist, Russell was basically self-taught, his art matured year by year until at a point he took up painting full time, opening a studio in Great Falls, Montana.
Most of his adult life was spent in Great Falls, along the Rock Mountain Front, and in and around the Judith Basin, Russell Country as it is known in the Montana tour guides.
Up until his death in 1926, Charles Marion Russell produced a vast number of paintings showing the West of the 1880's, as well as producing a number of fine works of sculpture, for which he is equally famous.
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Clicking on one of these paintings will show an enlarged image with greater detail. You can also view such features as image and frame size, reproduction method, full screen views, and prices plus with the help of the Search Box, view other works by this nad other artists.
And by the way, to view these and other of this artists works up close and personal, next time you are in the vicinity of Great Falls, Montana visit the Charles Marion Russell Museum. You'll be glad you did. And, to make your museum visiting in Great Falls complete, we suggest a trip over to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center on the banks of the Missouri.