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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Charles Marion
Russell, also known as C. M. 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', 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 entitled 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 dollars at a 2005
auction
