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C.M. Russell Museum

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C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
C.M. Russell Museum
Phone:
+1 406-727-8787

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Charles Marion Russell , 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 and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. Known as 'the cowboy artist', 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. 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, Texas. Russell's mural titled Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flathead Indians hangs in the state capitol building in Helena, Montana. Russell's 1918 painting Piegans sold for $5.6 million at a 2005 auction.
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