Charles Marion Russell (1864 - 1926)

Born in St. Louis, Charles Russell became a legendary painter and sculptor of frontier activities of the American West. Unlike his well-known counterpart, Frederic Remington, he preferred to paint the Indian and the Cowboys rather than the cavalry men.

He was fascinated with western life from an early age when he had heard stories of Indian fighting about his great uncle, Will Bent. Russell's earliest paintings were of war bonneted Indians on horseback. ~AskArt.com