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Marion Russell (Aimée Hercht) was born on 30 November, 1882 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American artist. Discover Marion Russell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

Popular As Aimée Hercht
Occupation writer
Age 43 years old
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Born 30 November 1882
Birthday 30 November
Birthplace St. Louis, Missouri
Date of death 24 October, 1926
Died Place Great Falls, Montana
Nationality United States

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His wife is Nancy Cooper Russell (m. 1896–1926)

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1864

Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West.

He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures.

He is known as "the cowboy artist" and was also a storyteller and author.

He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana.

1882

After a brief visit in 1882 to his family in Missouri, Russell returned to Montana, and lived and worked there for the remainder of his life.

1886

He worked as a cowboy for a number of outfits, and documented the harsh winter of 1886–1887 in a number of watercolors.

Russell was working on the O-H Ranch in the Judith Basin of Central Montana at the time.

The ranch foreman received a letter from the owner, asking how the cattle herd had weathered the winter.

In reply, the foreman sent a postcard-sized watercolor that Russell had painted of a gaunt steer being watched by wolves under a gray winter sky.

The ranch owner showed the postcard to friends and business acquaintances, and eventually displayed it in a shop window in Helena, Montana.

After this, the artist began to receive commissions for new work.

Russell's caption on the sketch, Waiting for a Chinook, became the title of the watercolor.

Russell later painted a more detailed version of the scene which became one of his best-known works.

1888

Beginning in 1888, Russell spent a period living with the Blood Indians, a branch of the Blackfeet nation.

Scholars believe that he gained much of his intimate knowledge of Native American culture during this period.

1889

When he returned to the Judith Basin in 1889, he found it filling with settlers.

1892

He worked in more open places for a couple of years before settling in the area of Great Falls, Montana, in 1892.

There he worked to make a living as a full-time artist.

1896

In 1896, Russell married his wife Nancy.

He was 32 and she was 18.

1897

In 1897, they moved from the small community of Cascade, Montana to the bustling county seat of Great Falls.

Russell spent the majority of the remainder of his life there.

He continued with his art, becoming a local celebrity and gaining the acclaim of critics worldwide.

As Russell was not skilled in marketing his work, Nancy is generally given credit for making him an internationally known artist.

She set up many shows for Russell throughout the United States and in London, creating many followers of Russell.

1912

His 1912 mural Lewis and Clark Meeting Indians at Ross' Hole hangs in the House chambers of the Montana Capitol in Helena, and his 1918 painting Piegans sold for $5.6 million at a 2005 auction.

1916

In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation.

The C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Great Falls, Montana houses more than 2,000 Russell artworks, personal objects, and artifacts.

Other major collections are held at the Montana Historical Society in Helena, Montana, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth.

1955

In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

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 traders who frequently came through Missouri.

He learned to ride horses at Hazel Dell Farm near Jerseyville, Illinois, on a famous Civil War horse named Great Britain.

Russell's instructor was Col. William H. Fulkerson, who had married into the Russell family.

At the age of sixteen, Russell left school and went to Montana to work on a sheep ranch.

Russell left the sheep ranch and found work with Jake Hoover, a hunter and trapper who had become a rancher.

He owned land in the Judith Basin.

Russell learned much about the ways of the West from him, and the two men remained lifelong friends.