When an auction is called the C.M. Russell Auction, you pretty much know who the main attraction is going to be. But at this year’s event, another Russell almost beat out the famed cowboy artist. Charlie Russell’s painting, Judith Basin Cowboy, did hammer in for the auction high at $160,000. But trailing close behind was an oil painting by Russell Chatham. Part of a fixed-price sale, a new addition to the auction, Rain Sweeping Over Sweet Grass Basin sold for $140,000—a record price for
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