2013 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 20
20
Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Letter to Lon R. Hoss
watercolor and ink on paper
8 × 6 inches
signed lower right
Letter to Lon R. Hoss is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.NE.789
Lon R. Hoss was the owner and publisher of the Citizens Call newspaper in Philipsburg, Montana, from 1892-1901. He later became the private secretary to then-Governor Joseph K. Toole. Hoss died in 1911.
PROVENANCE:
The Artist
Leonidas (Lon) R. Hoss, Philipsburg, Montana
Present owner, by descent