biography
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Russell, Charles (Marion)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1864–1926)
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| biography:
| Painter, sculptor, and illustrator, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Growing up fascinated with sketching and modelling cowboys, Indians, and animals, he went to Montana at age 16 and settled there. He worked as a hunter and cowboy, lived one winter with the Blood tribe of Canada, and decided in 1892 to devote himself to art full-time. Entirely self-taught, working with oils, water colours, pen-and-ink, and clay, he captured the authentic drama and details of the classic American West, but he never quite gained the standing of his contemporary, Frederic Remington. |
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