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In 1913 Charlie Russell was inducted as an Honorary Lifetime Member of Great Falls Elks Lodge #214. The certificate commemorating this honor is now on display at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa ...
Her family persuaded Lolly not to marry Russell and he married Nancy in 1896. A new coffee table book, “Montana’s Charlie Russell,” was published by the Montana Historical Society.
For the next 20 years Elks Lodge #214’s connection to Charlie Russell remained a point of pride, but the lodge had little contemporary connection with the cowboy artist or the sale of his works.
In declining health herself, Nancy Russell began directing her energies toward preserving Charlie’s work in 1938, to guarantee a collection of her husband's art at a major intuition.
A group of some of the most respected Charlie Russell scholars will gather in Helena later this week, June 18-20, for a symposium on his work and his legacy: “Montana’s Charlie Russell, 21st ...
For 28 years Montana's candidate for the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall has been its late, beloved cowboy artist, Charles M. Russell, famed for his bucking broncs, whooping Indians, buffalo ...
Charlie Russell impersonator, historian and now author Raphael Cristy will speak about his new book "Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art" at the Montana Historical Society at noon Monday, Nov.
Thousands of people packed into theaters and community centers across Montana in September and October to see the three-hour documentary on the iconic Montana artist C.M. Russell.
Over the next decade Charlie Russell continued to build upon his reputation as an artist, so that by 1908 the couple owned a home and art studio in Great Falls and could afford to buy land and a ...