Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Open Range
In Without Knocking
Charles Marion Russell, 1909 · oil on canvas
What it is
A group of cowboys rides their horses up onto the boardwalk and in at a saloon door, guns firing, in Charles Marion Russell’s oil on canvas of 1909.
Why it matters
Russell painted the cattle country of Montana he had known as a young man.
What to notice
One horse goes down on the boardwalk at the right, and the hotel sign hangs over the door they are riding through.
Nobody waited to be asked.
Provenance
- Maker
- Charles Marion Russell, 1909
- Era
- The Edwardian Turf (1901–1914)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1909
- Source
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth · via Wikimedia Commons · 1961.201
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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