Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The Open Range
Smoke of a .45
Charles Marion Russell, 1908 · oil on canvas
What it is
Riders wheel their horses in a dusty street outside a feed store while gunsmoke drifts across, in Charles Marion Russell’s oil on canvas of 1908.
Why it matters
Russell made the horse carry the action in his street scenes, and here every horse is mid-turn.
What to notice
A man lies in the street at the right, and the pale horse in the centre turns on its hocks.
One shot, and every horse turns.
Provenance
- Maker
- Charles Marion Russell, 1908
- Era
- The Edwardian Turf (1901–1914)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Made
- 1908
- Source
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth · via Wikimedia Commons · 1961.205
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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