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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Hello Dutch [or] The Bull Was Heap Good (1910)
watercolor and pen & ink on paper
10.25 × 6.75 inches
signed lower right

Hello Dutch is recorded in the C.M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number Cr.ILU.308.

Charles ‘Dutch’ Schatzlein was a close friend of Russell and the first dealer to sell his paintings. According to Brian W. Dippie, “Charlie was prompt to thank friends for gifts of venison, buffalo, and elk–though he would have had to struggle with Schatzlein’s gift of an elk steak since, as he wrote Goodwin in late October, ‘I had all my teeth pooled the other day an right now I havent many more teeth than a hen.’”

LITERATURE:
Ramon F. Adams and Homer E. Britzman, Charles M. Russell The Cowboy Artist (Pasadena, California: Trail’s End Publishing Co., 1948), page 258, illustrated
Catalog, Paintings, Watercolors, Bronzes, Illustrated Letters, Books and Ephemera by Charles Marion Russell : The Collection of Fred A. Rosenstock (New York, New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1972), number 34, illustrated
Brian W. Dippie [ed], Charles M. Russell, Word Painter: Letters 1887-1926 (Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1993), page 142, illustrated

PROVENANCE:
Charles ‘Dutch’ Schatzlein, Butte, Montana
Homer E. Britzman, Pasadena, California
Fred A. Rosenstock, Denver, Colorado
Collection of Sue and Ted Dalzell, Santa Barbara, California

143

Charles M. Russell

1864 – 1926

Hello Dutch [or] The Bull Was Heap Good (1910)
watercolor and pen & ink on paper
10.25 × 6.75 inches
signed lower right
Sold at Auction: $38,025
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