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Description: PAINTING IS CENTERED AROUND A MUSTACHED MOUNTIE ON HORSE. ON THE RIGHT AND SIDE THERE ARE THREE NATIVE AMERICANS WITH 3 HORSES. THERE ARE ALSO TWO MOUNTIES ON HORSES IN THE BACKGROUND BUT ARE QUITE FAR BACK IN THE DISTANCE. UNDERNEATH THE PAINTING, THERE IS A METAL PIECE WHICH READS, '' 'THE QUEENS WARHOUNDS' BY CM RUSSELL TO OUR LETHBRIDGE FRIENDS, GREAT FALLS AREA CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE."

History: *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST, C.M. RUSSELL, WAS DEVELOPED WITH INFORMATION FROM THE WEBSITE OF THE C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM, LOCATED IN GREAT FALLS, MONTANA. CHARLES MARION RUSSELL WAS BORN ON MARCH 19, 1864 IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, AND DREW SKETCHES AND CREATED CLAY FIGURES OF ANIMALS DURING HIS CHILDHOOD. FROM AN EARLY AGE HE HAD AN INTEREST IN THE WILD WEST AND COWBOYS, AND AT THE AGE OF 16 HE LEFT SCHOOL TO WORK ON A SHEEP RANCH IN MONTANA. RUSSELL STAYED IN MONTANA FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE, WORKING ON RANCHES AND FOR A TIME, LIVING WITH MEMBERS OF THE BLOOD TRIBE. IN 1892 HE MOVED TO GREAT FALLS IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE A LIVING AS A FULL-TIME ARTIST. RUSSELL'S WIFE NANCY IS OFTEN GIVEN CREDIT IN MAKING RUSSELL AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN ARTIST, AS HE WAS NOT SKILLED IN MARKETING HIS WORK. SHE ORGANIZED EXHIBITIONS OF HIS WORK THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND IN LONDON. C.M. RUSSELL DIED ON OCTOBER 24, 1926 IN GREAT FALLS. THE C.M. RUSSELL MUSEUM ENCOMPASSES THE ARTIST'S FORMER HOME AND STUDIO, AND HOLDS 700 OF THE ARTIST'S WORK IN ITS PERMANENT COLLECTION.