2015 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 141219 / 290  •  View Catalog  •   • 

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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Letter to Frank Fulkerson (1903)
watercolor on paper
10 × 8 inches, envelope 3.5 × 6 inches
signed lower right, dated on envelope

Letter to Frank Fulkerson is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.ILU.186.

The leather hondue (lariat slide-piece) referred to in the letter and The Old Gravois Coal Diggings, containing the story behind the letter’s illustration, will accompany the lot.

PROVENANCE
The Artist
Frank E. Fulkerson (his cousin), Jerseyville, IL, 1903
Present owner, by descent

LITERATURE
Mary Jane Boyer, The Old Gravois Coal Diggings (Imperial, MO: Mary Joan Boyer, 1952), pages 19-21, illustrated

141

Charles M. Russell

1864 – 1926

Letter to Frank Fulkerson (1903)
watercolor on paper
10 × 8 inches, envelope 3.5 × 6 inches
signed lower right, dated on envelope
Sold at Auction: $70,200