Artist charles russell biography graphic organizer
Students watch biographical accounts of three artists of the West: Charlie Russell, George.
Biography.!
Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926),[1] also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in addition to bronze sculptures.
Known as 'the cowboy artist',[2] Russell was also a storyteller and author. The C. M. Russell Museum Complex located in Great Falls, Montana houses more than 2,000 Russell artworks, personal objects, and artifacts.
Russell's mural titled Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flathead Indians hangs in the state capitol building in Helena, Montana.
Founded in , its collections include: Buffalo Bill and the West he lived and loved, historic photographs and documents, firearms, natural history of the.Russell's 1918 painting Piegans sold for $5.6 million dollars at a 2005 auction.[3]
Childhood
Art was always a part of Russell's life. Growing up in Missouri, he drew sketches and made clay figures of animals. Russell had an intense interest in the wild west and would spend hours reading about it.
Russell would watch explorers and fur trad
