DO YOU LIKE C. M. RUSSELL PAINTINGS?

[crazyphil]

I don't have the paintings of course. Just some prints.
My favorite is "Meat ain't meat til it's in the pan".
Probably because it reminds me of some of my own
hunting expeditions.

 

[bruce5781]

Phil,
You need to visit the Rockwell museum in Corning, NY. They have a Russell collection that will knock your socks off.
Page not found – Rockwell Museum

PS the link works.
Regards,
Bruce

 

[shouldazagged]

Yes, I like his work a lot.

 

[forindooruseonly]

Or, if you're down Texas way, check out the Amon Carter Museum of Art, which also has an astounding collection of Carter and Remington paintings and sculptures.

Remington and Russell Project Overview | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

 

[steelslaver]

Living where I do and going to great Falls MT often I am lucky enough to be able to visit the CM Russel museum there a lot. When I was younger it wasn't that unusual for a bar or restaurant to have one of his paintings hanging on the wall.

Growing up in Miles City MT, and having the Haufman photo gallery on the same block as the HS didn't even man a dent in my brain. Now I love to visit places like that and small town museums. The Range Riders one in Miles City has some great guns, Photos and paintings too. Imagine my surprise to turn a corner and find a picture of my Great grandfather staring at me. LOL

 

[ostlund]

I don't have the paintings of course. Just some prints.
My favorite is "Meat ain't meat til it's in the pan".
Probably because it reminds me of some of my own
hunting expeditions.

yes oh yes! I happen to have "Meats not meant til it's in the Pan" along side my bed. One of my favorites. Another is "Christmas Meat" which is above the reloading bench. If you ever make it to Great Falls Montana you must stop at the CMR museum. It is almost a destination point. If so just 80 or so miles away you can see many many more originals at the museum at state capital in Helena. The guy is obviously a hero back home.

 

[ostlund]

Phil,
You need to visit the Rockwell museum in Corning, NY. They have a Russell collection that will knock your socks off.
Page not found – Rockwell Museum

PS the link works.
Regards,
Bruce

thanks for this one.

remember the time probably a couple decades ago when Japanese investors wanted to buy "Exaulted Ruler"? There was a campaign to pull the money together and keep it in state? (CMR museum in Great Falls) Last time there it was front and center walking in the front doors.

 

[Ranger514]

Russell was an outstanding cowboy artist. His attention to detail was superb in capturing the history of MT. He was a western original, who cowboyed and lived with Indians during his younger years. One of my friends and I visited his cabin studio in Great Falls back in the 1980s.

Charlie was quite a character. Until he married a woman who was wise enough to get him to turn his art skills into a business, he paid off his bar bills with paintings. Wish I had one of those hanging on my wall. My wife's uncle gifted us a couple of numbered ink prints that Charlie penned that now hang in our living room.

I'm not sure if his cabin studio is still open to the public, but I noticed there's now a CM Russell Museum in Great Falls that I need to visit. He was commissioned to paint a large mural of Lewis and Clark meeting a group of MT Indians. Charlie chose to depict the Indians viewpoint, which was a common theme he chose. Here's a link to some background information on CM Russell.

Charlie Russell Paints the Meeting | Discovering Lewis & Clark (R)

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't have the paintings of course. Just some prints.
My favorite is "Meat ain't meat til it's in the pan".
Probably because it reminds me of some of my own
hunting expeditions.

Never heard of him but, im an instant fan.

 

[crazyphil]

Never heard of him but, im an instant fan.

Google him and you can probably see some of his paintings.
I would put some up on here but don't know how.

 

[the ringo kid]

Google him and you can probably see some of his paintings.
I would put some up on here but don't know how.

I already found some. He reminds me of other favorites of mine like: Don Stivors, Don Trioni, Dale Galleon and David Pentland.

 

[pawngal]

I have one the late hubby was just certain was an original. He "bought the story" that it came out of a South Dakota bar where he had paid his bar bill with the painting. Had heck of a time convincing him otherwise. It is a older giclee on canvas. I don't remember the name or the subject but now I'm curious, will have to get it out of the closet and see.

 

[df06]

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Living where I do and going to great Falls MT often I am lucky enough to be able to visit the CM Russel museum there a lot. When I was younger it wasn't that unusual for a bar or restaurant to have one of his paintings hanging on the wall.

Growing up in Miles City MT, and having the Haufman photo gallery on the same block as the HS didn't even man a dent in my brain. Now I love to visit places like that and small town museums. The Range Riders one in Miles City has some great guns, Photos and paintings too. Imagine my surprise to turn a corner and find a picture of my Great grandfather staring at me. LOL

I was luck enough to go through this Great Falls Museum about 15 years ago.

 

[BearBio]

I have the "Piegan Indian Man" from the 1953 printing in my bedroom==looks just like my maternal grandmother (LOL)

The Cody Museum had an exhibit on Russell and Remington and had some letters he wrote to hi wife while they were engaged and he was out west. BEAUTIFUL artwork in the margins, often what he had seen and wrote her about.

 

[rburg]

I've got a coffee table book on him. Remember those? Large format really first rate photography. And someone tried to write in captions that aren't up to the art.

Around here some old dead dude named William McHenry Snyder went to the war of northern aggression as a drummer boy. Then he came home and began painting pictures of beech forests over in Indiana. Having a weak mind and no self control, I ended up buying 2 of his original paintings. One hangs over the fireplace where I can see it all the time. The other hangs behind me, and I make a special effort to look at it (its an autumn scene with yellow and orange leaves.

Just because we like guns and knives doesn't mean we can't enjoy art. I'm pretty sure the concept would cause snowflakes to melt down. Right in their mothers basement.

 

[jinx]

I visited the CMR museum many times and am still amazed at how beautiful his work is. Most people have seen prints or copies of his work but nothing compares to up close of the real thing. The colors are outstanding. Also worth the trip to Helena and the capitol building to see his work there.
I worked with a fellow in Great Falls that had several letters from CM Russell. They were written to my buddy's granddad. They had evidently cowboyed together. The letters all had some artwork on them. My friend did not know what to do with them and I suggested to give them the museum. He did and now everyone can view them. Whoever was in charge of the museum then about had heart failure when presented the letters. Pretty nice donation to the CMR museum.

 

[Old TexMex]

Yes, I surely am. I've stood in front of a couple of his works.
Sometimes I just go on the internet and look. Often spend ten minutes or more on a single painting, looking.

Always think he looks like Will Rogers.

 

[Gamecock]

I'm waiting for Brett Maly to tell me what it's worth, and Rick Atkinson to tell me what he'll pay for it.

Big 10-4 on Cody - Whitney Western Art Museum. Add Harry Jackson as a special artist. His Pony Express II is as fine as anything Remington made.

Personal story: I was at Whitney Museum in 2007. Frederick Remington "Coming Through the Rye" on display. #7 of unknown number he did. I was standing close, taking pictures. A volunteer approached me, and essentially said, "Be careful." There were no barriers at all around it. I would have only had to reach to touch it.

When I got back home, I looked it up on the interweb. It said that the last time a numbered, original had come up for sale, it sold for $4,000,000. In 1989. So here is this sculpture worth a gazillion dollars, and it's right there where you could even touch it. Amazin'.

The firearms museum is quite worthwhile, too.

 

[swsig]

+1 on the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. It has what is likely the world's best collection of western art, including this one called "Making Whoope".

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l136/vanrijngo/Charles M Russell/makingwhoope.jpg

I got to see this once during a behind-the-scenes tour at the Amon Carter. It rarely, if ever, goes on display, because it is possible to peel back the flap on the tent, where you can see a self portrait of Russell engaged in a graphic, x-rated act with an Indian maiden. Russell's wife reportedly tried to have this painting destroyed. One has to wonder what it would bring on the open market.

 

[Ed Fowler]

I am named after a man who worked on the same ranch as 'Charlie' as he called him when he was a kid. Heard so many stories, have about every book about him and love his work. His art is real West learned on his own, and there is a reason for everything in his pictures.

The man I am named after (Austin Crakaw) and 'Charley' kept up quite a correspondence writing letters, 'Charlie' drew little pictures on many of his letters, his basement wall was covered with them. He also had an old Winchester rifle that 'Charley' engraved for him using his pocket knife depicting a sow bear and her cubs walking through a meadow.

Austin would take me through books of 'Charley's' work and explain the details. There would be rabbits, rattlers, mice, all kinds of animals included in many of his paintings. The more you look the more you see. Every painting he did has a buffalo skull in it somewhere.

A book called "Trails Plowed Under" has stories written by CMR and is one of my favorites.

Needless to say in answer to your question:Yes I like his work.