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Birth
1864 (St. Louis, Missouri)
Death
1926 (Great Falls, Montana)
Lived/Active
Montana/California
Self portrait - Charles Marion Russell - Self Portrait
Often Known For
Indian-frontier genre painting, sculpture
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Categories of Interest
Sculptors
Illustrators
Western Painters
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Born in St. Louis, Charles Russell became a legendary painter and sculptor of frontier activities of the American West. Unlike his well-known counterpart, Frederic Remington, he preferred to paint the Indian and the Cowboys rather than the cavalry men.
He was fascinated with western life from an early age when he had heard stories of Indian fighting about his great uncle, Will Bent. Russell's earliest paintings were of war bonneted Indians on horseback. Not interested in school, he left (showing 500 of 27604 characters). |
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