Charlie Russell Revisited

POKER GAME FUELED BY WHISKEY EXPLODES A wounded cowboy falls from his horse, his foot hung up in a stirrup, while his two buddies open fire on the gambler who shot him. The gambler is hit as well, falling back against the rough wall of the saloon, as a smoking six-shooter dangles from his hand. Panicked horses scramble at the shooting, desperate to get away. It’s all captured in oil on canvas in , another action-packed painting of the Old West, from the brush of the legendary cowboy artist Charlie Russell. Today, you can stand exactly where that painting was created, in Russell’s restored historic log cabin studio in Great Falls, Montana.