VERSO
Label, A. J. Kollar Fine Paintings, Seattle, Washington

An Indian Lookout is included in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as number CR.DR.233. A copy of a letter of authenticity from Ginger K. Renner will accompany the lot.

In 1910, Charles M. Russell was commissioned to illustrate a picturesque memoir of the Old West by Carrie Adell Strahorn titled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage. In addition to seventeen paintings, Russell completed sixty-eight pen and ink drawings for the book. His reputation as an illustrator was already firmly established and he was eagerly sought after by such leading authors of the day as Owen Wister, Theodore Roosevelt, Bret Harte, and Emerson Hough.

LITERATURE
Carrie Adell Strahorn, Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911, p. 127, illustrated