The nation’s top Western art museums provide a window into our past that inspires our present. Art of the American West from old favorites like...
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On the Trail of Charlie Russell
Travel across Montana and discover the state through the life and art of the cowboy artist. Charles M. Russell was 16 when he first arrived in the...
Charlie Russell The Humorist
The legendary Montana cowboy is well known for his cowboy art, but he was also quite funny and sometimes ribald (some would say scandalous!). Here...
Charlie Russell’s Red Sash Russell never wore a belt but wore the sash folded like one. Along with the bison skull, it became one of his distinctive trademarks...
Russell never wore a belt but wore the sash folded like one. Along with the bison skull, it became one of his distinctive trademarks. He began...
The Art of the West
Artists’ interpretations of Western history, then and now.
Charlie Russell, “Waiting for a Chinook”
Charlie Russell came to Montana in 1880 at the age of sixteen where he hired out on a sheep ranch. He later went to work for a former trapper Jake...