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The Western Art of Charles Russell on Cd 150+ Beautiful full color and b&w paintings, bronze sculptures, wax and clay figures

We have updated our very popular Charles Russell art book cd with larger images.
All 300 dpi scans now average 1280 x 1024 screen resolution.
150+ Larger images allowing you more viewing and printing options.

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	The Greatest Western Art
Relive the spirit of the American West through the hand of Charles Russell. The Wild West - While the Eastern United States was beginning to experience the Second Industrial Revolution (which started around 1871), the frontier was beginning to fill up. In the early days of the wild west, a great deal of the land was in the public domain, open both to livestock raising as open range and to homesteading. Throughout much of the Old West, there was little to no local law enforcement, and the military had only concentrated presence at specific locations. Buffalo hunters, railroad workers, drifters and soldiers scrapped and fought, leading to the shootings where men died "with their boots on."   ***AN ORIGINAL COLLECTION AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH ARTISTLIGHT***

 

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Charles Marion Russell was born on March 19, 1864, near St. Louis, Missouri. Russell was an accomplished painter, sculptor and Illustrator whose fascination with the American West resulted in over 2500 works of art.
Russell's family was of some prominence in business and public affairs and had strong ties to the West. A great-grandfather , Silas Bent, had been in charge of surveying the Louisiana Territory and was later an eminent Justice. Four great-uncles, William (married into the Cheyenne indians), Charles (appointed the first American govenor of New Mexico), George and Robert Bent, had been fur traders on the upper Missouri and builders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas in 1828.
Shortly before turning 16, Russell was sent by his parents to Montana, in hopes it would settle him down and prepare him for the family business back home. He spent the next eleven years working various ranching jobs. He sketched in his free time and soon gained a local reputation as an artist. His firsthand experience as a ranch hand and his intimate knowledge of outdoor life contributed to the precise realism characteristic of his style.
Russell achieved national recognition after he married Nancy Cooper in September, 1896. With her guidance, support and natural business sense, Russell sold his paintings for thousands and tens of thousands of dollars and began a successful career as an Illustrator.

150+ Russell works include; accurate depictions of early life in the west using gouche, pencil, watercolor and oils on canvas and wood. Russell himself was a cowboy who identified with the subjects he created. Beautiful portraits of indian life on the plains, in addition to struggles with the white man. Also, early scenes of western expansion with Lewis and Clark. Russell's humorous side are revealed in "The Tenderfoot," one of many illustrations he painted for Century magazine and Sports Afield. His whimsical wax and clay figures and his amazing bronze sculptures are also represented.

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