Now open at the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, is Charles M. Russell: Storyteller Across Media,a new exhibition examining the work of one of the West’s most iconic artists. The exhibition will feature a number of different mediums that Russell worked in, including oil, watercolor, pen and ink, bronze and even wax, which he was fond of sculpting for fun or as a preliminary version to his bronzes.
Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Man’s Weapons Are Useless When Nature Goes Armed, 1916, oil on canvas
“Over his more than 40-year career Russell chronicled his beloved West across paper, canvas, bronze and truly anything he could find to make art out of,” says Scott Winterrowd, director of the Sid Richardson Museum. “Russell adapted stories he heard from his cowboy cohorts, as well as Indigenous acquaintances, turning those narratives into a compelling document of the passing of the Old West.”
Charles M. Russell (1864-1926), Deer in Forest [White Tailed Deer], 1917, oil on canvas board
The Sid Richardson Museum holds 52 works by Russell and also has significant pieces by Frederic Remington. Between the two of them, their paintings and bronzes are some of the most sought-after works in all of Western art.
For more information about the museum, visit sidrichardsonmuseum.org. —
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