Charles Marion Russell

inscribed CM Russell and with the artist’s skull insignia (on the base); inscribed with the foundry mark Roman Bronze Works.N.Y. (along the base)

height: 10 ⅞ in.  (27.6 cm.)

Museum of Western Art, Denver

R.D. Hubbard, Ruidoso, New Mexico (acquired in 1994)

Private Collection, Santa Fe

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Memorial Exhibition: Charles Marion Russell, ‘Painter of the West’, 1927, no. 73, another cast mentioned

“Life of the Cowboy in Paint and Bronze,” Boston Evening Transcript, 21 November 1928, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., Boston, Robert C. Vose Galleries, Charles Marion Russell, ‘Painter of the West’, 1928, no. 40, another cast mentioned

Frank Geritz, “The Old West in Charles Russell’s Statuary,” Touring Topics, vol. 21, June 1929, p. 44, illustration of another cast

Karl Yost, Charles M. Russell, The Cowboy Artist: A Bibliography, Pasadena, 1948, p. 174, another cast mentioned

Homer E. Britzman, “Genius in Chaps: The Life and Works of Charlie Russell,” Arizona Highways, vol. 25, November 1949, p. 28, illustration of another cast

Homer E. Britzman and Lonnie Hull, Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles, 1949, p. 107, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Fort Worth Art Association, Bronzes by Charles M. Russell, 1950, no. 9, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., Tulsa, Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, An Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, 1950, another cast mentioned

Frederic G. Renner, “Forgeries of the Works of Charles M. Russell,” Westerners Brand Book, vol. 12, February 1956, p. 95, another cast mentioned

Harold McCracken, The Charles M. Russell Book, Garden City, New York, 1957, p. 189, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Great Falls, Montana, Trigg-Russell Memorial Gallery, Bronzes of C. M. Russell, 1957, no. 60, another cast mentioned

Will Rogers, “An Honest-to-God Human Being,” Montana The Magazine of Western History, vol. 8, October 1958, p. 38, illustration of another cast

“The American Scene Presents the Works of C. M. Russell in the Gilcrease Institute of American History,” American Scene, vol. 3, 1960, p. 23, illustration of another cast

John Dewar, “The Charles M. Russell Bronzes,” Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly, vol. 19, Winter 1960-61, p. 15, illustration of another cast

Buffalo Bill Historical Center, ed., Preserving the Heritage of the Old West, p. 18, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, Charles M. Russell Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture, 1954, another cast mentioned

C.M. Russell Bronzes from the McNair Collection, New York, 1962, p. 225; illustrated on the cover

Montana Historical Society, ed., The Works of Charles Marion Russell in the Permanent Collection of the Historical Society of Montana, 1962, p. 20, another cast mentioned

George J. Mitchell, “The Wm. S. Hart Museum,” Films in Review, vol. 13, August-September 1962, p. 40, illustration of another cast

“C. M. Russell’s Bronze Masterpieces of the Old Frontier,” Montana The Magazine of Western History, vol. 12, January 1963, p. 50, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Helena, Montana Historical Society, C. M. Russell and His Bronze Masterpieces of the Old Frontier, 1963, no. 49, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Remington and Russell, 1963, mention of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, Hammer Galleries, The Charles M. Russell Centennial Exhibition, 1864-1964, 1964, no. 6, illustration of another cast

Ke Mo Ha and Patrick Patterson, The Woolaroc Museum, 1965, p. 43, illustration of another cast

Frederic G. Renner, Charles M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon G. Carter Collection, Austin and London, 1966, p. 123, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Columbus, Ohio State University, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, 1967, another cast mentioned

Frank Harding, A Livestock Heritage: Animals and People in Art, Geneva, Illinois, 1971, p. 58, illustration of another cast

Karl Yost and Frederic G. Renner, A Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles M. Russell, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1971, pp. 30, 34, 46, 51-57, 59, 63, 66, 73-77, 82, 86, 91, 94, 103, 114, 120, 167, 258, another cast mentioned

Earl C. Adams, “The Most Valuable Russell Bronzes,” Persimmon Hill, vol. 3, 1973, p. 65, illustration of another cast

Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 418, another cast mentioned

Frederic G. Renner, Charles M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum, New York, 1974, p. 78, illustration of another cast

R. W. Norton Foundation, ed., Charles M. Russell (1864-1926): Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture in the Collection of the R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1979, p. 47, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Phoenix Art Museum; Great Falls, Montana, C. M. Russell Museum and Denver Art Museum, Charles M. Russell: The Frederic G. Renner Collection, 1981, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., St. Louis, Museum of Westward Expansion, Charles M. Russell: American Artist, 1982, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Lexington, Massachusetts, Museum of Our National Heritage, C. M. Russell: Artist of the American West, 1984, another cast mentioned

Exh. Cat., Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Charles M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, 1985, another cast mentioned

Rick Stewart, Charles M. Russell: Sculptor, New York, 1994, no. R-38, pp. 85, 87, 99, 102, 131 note 131, 324 and 375; pp. 318-323, illustrations of other casts in color