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2015 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 4946 / 290  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Thurston Held Mona Somewhat Tighter Than He Need to Have Done
watercolor and gouache on paper
16 × 13 inches
signed lower left

VERSO
Various exhibition labels

Thurston Held Mona... is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.PC.294.

The Years of George Montgomery will accompany the lot.

PROVENANCE
The Estate of Nancy C. Russell, 1941
Homer E. Britzman, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Galleries, New York, NY
George Montgomery, 1964, gifted to
The George Montgomery Foundation of the Arts, 1988
Private Collection, Coral Gables, FL, 2003

EXHIBITED
Western Canada Art Circuit, Calgary Allied Arts Council, Calgary, Ablerta
Department of Municipal Art, Los Angeles, CA, Aug 29 - Sept 13, 1957
Historical Society of Montana, Helena, MT, Oct 1 - 12, 1957
C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT, Oct 14 - 26, 1957
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Sept 1957
Selections from the George Montgomery Collection, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Sept 23, 1980 - May 31, 1981
Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, NY, Sept 28 - Dec 31, 1986
Los Angeles County Fair & Exposition Complex, Pomona, CA, Sept 17 - Oct 4, 1987
C. M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT, Jan 1 - Oct 15, 1991
George Montgomery: Actor, Artist, Collector, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA, Nov 20, 1991 - Jan 19, 1992 and
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Mar 6 - July 28, 1996
George Montgomery’s Creations and Collection, Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ, June 28 - Nov 17, 1997

LITERATURE
B. M. Bower, The Lure of the Dim Trails (New York, NY: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1907), facing p. 204, illustrated
Catalog, Private Collection of the Hammer Bros., the works of CM Russell from the collection of Homer E. Britzman in Trail’s End, Pasadena (circa 1957), page 58, illustrated
George Montgomery and Jeffrey Millet, The Years of George Montgomery (Los Angeles, CA: Sagebrush inc., 1981), page 250, illustrated

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Charles M. Russell

1864 – 1926

Thurston Held Mona Somewhat Tighter Than He Need to Have Done
watercolor and gouache on paper
16 × 13 inches
signed lower left
Sold at Auction: $84,825
Condition ReportViewed through glass, paper appears in good condition. Slight mat burn along left and bottom edges at edge of frame.

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