Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Open Range
In the Enemy’s Country
Charles Marion Russell, 1921 · oil on canvas
What it is
A war party leads its horses quietly across a grassy ridge high above a wide valley, in Charles Marion Russell’s oil on canvas of 1921.
Why it matters
Russell painted it five years before his death in 1926.
What to notice
The riders walk beside their horses rather than ride, and the valley opens out to the far hills behind them.
Quiet, on someone else’s land.
Provenance
- Maker
- Charles Marion Russell, 1921
- Era
- The Interwar Record (1914–1930)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1921
- Source
- Denver Art Museum, Gift of the Magness Family in memory of Betsy Magness · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01. Wikimedia Commons licence tag, read 2026-11-01: PD-Art|PD-old-auto-expired|deathyear=1926. The maker died in 1926.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 27x41" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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