Charles Marion Russell
AMERICAN (1864 -1926)
Finding the Gold that Made Virginia City Famous
Circa 1911
Pen and Ink
14 x 11 inches
Signed lower left: CMR
Provenance:
The Frederic G. Renner Collection
Private Collection; circa 1990 - present
Illustrated:
Strahorn, Carrie Adell; Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage, page 99, 1911.
Phoenix Art Museum; Charles M. Russell, The Frederic G. Renner Collection, page 10, 1981.
Note:
This drawing commemorates the discovery of gold on Alder Creek, May 26, 1863, one of the greatest strikes in Montana history.
A letter of authenticity by Ginger K. Renner dated April 13, 1990 accompanies this work.
Long Range Guns were often the White Man’s Passport
1922
Watercolor, Pen and Ink
8.25 x 11 inches
Signed and dated lower left: C M Russell 1922 with Monogram Buffalo Skull
Inscribed lower right: To Roy Page Jr on his / first Christmas from/ CM Russell 1922
Inscribed verso: Long Range Guns were often the white man’s passport (likely in the hand of Nancy Russell)
Note: A letter of authenticity by Ginger K Renner dated October 17, 1987 accompanies this work.
Indian Scout on a Bluff
1911
Pen and Ink
10 x 13 inches
Signed lower left: CMR with Monogram Buffalo Skull
Illustrated:
Strahorn, Carrie Adell; Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage, lead in illustration for Chapter XI, page 127, 1911.
Note: A letter of authenticity by Ginger K. Renner dated July 11, 1995 accompanies this work.
Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman in Stetson Hat
1910
Pen and Ink
5 15/16 x 7 1/8 inches
Signed lower right: CM Russell (skull)
Note:
A letter of authenticity by Frederic G. Renner dated Febrary 15, 1985 accompanies this work
Mounted Police Patrol Captures American Whiskey Runners
Circa 1920
Pen and Ink
9.75 x 19.75 inches
Signed lower left: C M Russell
Note:
A letter by R.F. Morgan dated August 13, 1997
Note:
This work was one part of the series Backtrailing on the Old Frontier written and published by Wm. Cheely and Percy Raban of Great Falls, Montana. This episode is one of fifty-one narratives syndicated to some seventy newspapers coast to coast. The “Backtrailing” series was assured of success when Russell agreed to illustrate the narratives, glimpses of early Northwest and Montana history, which ran for a year.
Indian Attack on a Stagecoach
Watercolor en grisaille heightened with gouache
11.25 x 8.25 inches
Signed lower left: CM Russell with Monogram Buffalo Skull
Illustrated :
Trent’s Trust by Bret Harte
Kennedy Quarterly Vol V, No. 3, May 11, 1965, page 246.
Note: A letter by R.F. Morgan dated August 13, 1997, accompanies this work.