Coeur d'Alene Art Auction - July 2021

– 85 – 108 Charles M. Russell (1864–1926) Cowboy on a Bronco (1898) watercolor on paper 13 × 20.5 inches signed lower left: CMRussell [artist cipher] 1898 Cowboy on a Bronco is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.PC.72. According to Russell historian Frederic G. Renner, “Men who made a specialty of riding outlaw horses had a language all their own. Such cowboys were bronc busters, twisters, peelers, or bronc stompers, men who scorned to pull leather as their horse bucked, crawfished, came apart, jackknifed, pitched, rainbowed, sunfished, or tried to chin the moon.” Russell himself shared, “An Injun once told me that bravery came from the hart not the head. If my red brother is right Bronk riders and bull dogers are all hart above the wast band but its a good bet there’s nothing under there hat but hair.” PROVENANCE Katherine Bradford, Hamilton, Massachusetts Present owner, by descent EXHIBITED How the West Was Won , Wildenstein & Co., New York, New York, 1968 Bradford BrintonMemorial Museum, Big Horn, Wyoming, 2011 $150,000–250,000