Artist After Charles [Charlie] Marion Russell
Title Ambush of a Pack Train
Media oil on canvas
Size 24.5 x 35 in. / 62.2 x 88.9 cm.
Frame Size 32 x 42.5 x 2.25 in.
Sold $1,500
Estimate $2,000 - $2,500
Notes
bears artist's name lower left; in hand carved frame
Reference
lot includes a copy of letter stating 'this painting was examined by Mr. and Mrs. F.G. Renner of Paradise Valley AZ and Doctor Morgan, former curator of the Montana Historical Museum at Helena, Montana' which was attached to the back of this painting
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
After Charles [Charlie] Marion Russell ~ [1864-1926] American
see Good Medicine, by C.Russell, Doubleday and Co., 1929; The Charles M. Russell Book, by H.McCracken, Doubleday and Co., 1957; Charles M. Russell, by C.Renner, Amon Carter Museum, 1966; Charles M. Russell in the Renner Collection, by J.Ballinger, Phoenix Art Gallery, 1981; Charles M. Russell, Sculptor, by R.Stewart, Amon Carter Museum, 1994; Charlie Russell and the First Calgary Stampede, ed. Melanie Kjorlien, Glenbow Museum, 2012;see Who Was Who in American Art, by P.H.Falk, Vol. 3, pg. 2858, Sound View Press, 1999