CHARLIE RUSSELL
Tale-Telling Cowboy Artist
By Lois V. Harris
Charles Marion Russell was the first artist to live most of his life in the West, sketching and painting not only from live subjects, but from actual experience. Becoming a frontiersman at a young age in 1880, he rode and worked with horses on a daily basis, something that no other Western artist had done before. This biography for children is the first of its kind about Russell, and the subject’s own vibrant paintings illustrate his life story. It follows Russell from his school days through adulthood and reveals how he held on to his dreams, living out a child’s cowboy fantasy.
Charlie Russell not only wanted to experience the West, he wanted to replicate it. It took years of hard work and determination to land a job as a cattleman and longer still for him to master his artistic talents. Through stories, paintings, and clay, wax, and bronze figures, he was able to capture that rare spirit of the region and pass it along to others. Russell became a famous artist, author, outdoorsman, environmentalist, storyteller, and beloved Western figure. Today, thousands of his paintings, sculptures, and drawings are held in the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. This book pays tribute to a great Western artist, encouraging every young cowboy to live out his dreams.
About the Author
Lois V. Harris’s fiction, nonfiction, and photography have appeared in children’s magazines and the L.A. Times. The author of Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter, available from Pelican, Harris is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Authors Guild, the University of Washington Alumni Association, and the Seattle Art Museum. She lives with her family and two cats in Anacortes, Washington, and enjoys visiting museums and learning about art.
CHARLIE RUSSELL
Tale-Telling Cowboy Artist
By Lois V. Harris
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Art
32 pp. 11 x 8½
7 b/w photos 23 color illus.
ISBN-13: 9781589807587
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