Show COt BOY ARTIST R TO 10 FAME E Montana Herder Once Sent Pictures Instead of Written Reports GREAT FALLS r Mont reb leb 1 17 17 j- j Charles Charlos SI M l Rusell oC ot Great Ia t Mont whose sale sile ot of a paintinG to lb Pi of oC Wiles for tor or has caused comment was early known as the th tl Cowboy Cowboy Artist and Is rated by hi his friends the beat bet painter of oC western toda today Mr Ir Russell ell has bas itel 1 helIn In Montana since he was a 11 tl years 01 Coming here fL horn om St Louis toul ilo aio lo alon aion alonas as a IJ JO bo bov and working orkin at cow eow on the ranges for tor many year years lIe He Ih- Ih liv lived ed d with the Blood Indians Indian north of ot the theline th tholine line t two 0 sears ears and no Knows s the Indian Indiano n 1 01 of oC the old drys In to detail Ot 0 While riding the th rang In the ml middle ot of o the as a 0 cowboy cow cow- cowboy cow cowboy boy for a a Helena cattle firm Rus Russi Ruai It frequently would s n sent send tho the firms s draw draw- drawIngs drawings drawings ings Instead ad of ot writing One s steers winter Or winter practically wiped out the ran o rattle business In rr a tim and and Russell sent Rent In the picture or of a asO cow sO standing humped In the snow sno- a CO coyote ote for or her to todie todie die dic and the legend The Tho Lat La t of the The picture re was as n dra whit th a pencil but It Il made mado Russell Hussell h- h ti In the west est ov might and there there- thereafter thereafter after he followed follo painting as LS a 11 voce OCIL lion mixing his own o paints and being belne hi his 0 own n Rf or ONLY LY ONE OE TIt Dr Seward Webb sew ew York Tork mil mil- mil millionaire inC mC mc Russell In Great fills lifter after and got sot tho the latter to go so to Ne Nei I York to study painting as his Russell In Now ew York TorI a 1 month return returned d to the w west st and con con- continued con continued his work Ws Ills studio In Gna Gr a l Falls alls Is a log loff cabin of ot the old day days It It fireplace and old od time furnish furnishings ings Mr Air Russell Hussell has sold many paint paintings Ins ings abroad and 1 exhibited In Cano h London and In Ne New YorK a con coffin con IQ number of his works bean In English art collections collect ns |