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lection aretheworksofotherWestern artists. Themuseumcomplex alsofeatures Russell's
house and the log cabin studio in which he produced the bulk of his remarkable work doc-
umenting his times.
CHARLES M. RUSSELL
Born in Missouri in 1864, Charlie Russell had a special fascination with the cowboys
and Indians of the West, which he precociously depicted in his earliest drawings. His
parents, concerned about his indifference to schoolwork, sent Charlie to Montana at
age 15, hoping the visit would cure him of his obsession with the wild frontier. In-
stead, Charles Marion Russell became a rough-and-tumble cowboy himself, and over
the decades he vividly chronicled—in thousands of inspired oils, watercolors, and
bronzes—a way of life that has since faded from the American scene.
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