CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (1864-1926)
CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (1864-1926)
CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (1864-1926)
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CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (1864-1926)

A Disputed Trail

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CHARLES MARION RUSSELL (1864-1926)
A Disputed Trail
signed and dated 'copyright by/CM Russell/1908' with artist's skull device (lower left)
watercolor and gouache on paper
24 ½ x 18 ¾ in. (62.2 x 47.6 cm.)
Executed in 1908.
Provenance
(Possibly) A.M. Grenfell, London, 1912.
James Wheeler Davidson, Calgary, Alberta, circa 1915.
Joseph T. O'Connor, Vancouver, Canada, by 1982.
Estate of the above.
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Hayden, Idaho, 28 July 2001, lot 90.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
H. McCracken, The Charles M. Russell Book, Garden City, New York, 1957, pp. 160, 206, illustrated.
B.W. Dippie, Looking at Russell, Fort Worth, Texas, 1987, p. 121.
B.W. Dippie, ed., Charles M. Russell, World Painter: Letters 1887-1926, Forth Worth, Texas, 1993, p. 378, illustrated.
B.W. Dippie, Remington and Russell: The Sid Richardson Collection, College Station, Texas, 1994, p. 146.
B.W. Dippie, The 100 Best Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell, Fort Worth, Texas, 2008, p. 208.
L.L. Peterson, Charles M. Russell: Photographing the Legend, Norman, Oklahoma, 2014, p. 91.
R. Stewart, Charles M. Russell Watercolors: 1887-1926, Fort Worth, Texas, 2015, p. 347.
Exhibited
New York, Folsom Galleries, The West That Has Passed, April 12-May 6, 1911.
(Probably) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Ninth Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, November 13-December 17, 1911, p. 79, no. 1007.
(Probably) Calgary, Canada, The Stampede, Paintings by Charles M. Russell, 1912, n.p., no. 16.
St. Louis, Missouri, Museum of Western Expansion, Charles M. Russell: American Artist, April 2-August 29, 1982, p. 53, illustrated.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch, August 31-November 13, 2005, pp. 98, 110, 123, illustrated.
Further Details
The present work has been assigned number CR.PC.89 by the Charles M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné Committee.

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