Envelope
Artist
Charles Marion Russell
(American, 1864 - 1926)
Recipient
George Speck
DateMay 18, 1923; postmark, May 19, 1923
Mediumpen and ink on paper
DimensionsFrame: 22 1/2 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (57.2 × 40 × 2.9 cm)
Object number11.106.12.B
ClassificationsContainers
Label TextIn the 1920s Charles Russell and his wife Nancy spent winters in California. Geographically in the West, California differed from Montana, and Russell missed the more rustic region. Here Russell updates an old pal, George Speck, about friends from their days in Great Falls saloons, George T. "Cut Bank" Browne and Robert J. "Sporticus" Horton.
ProvenancePurchased, February 24, 1964 through (Edward Eberstadt and Sons, New York, New York) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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