Synopses & Reviews
Although he was painfully reserved among strangers, the artist Charles M. Russell had a knack for making lifelong friends. This issue of Western Passages is devoted to one group amoung Russellandrsquo;s diverse tribe of comrades: his fellow artist. Five distinguished scholars consider the painters and illustrators with whom Russell associated, gauging the contributions of some to his artistic progress and assessing the debt owed by others to his work, with particular attention to Russellandrsquo;s friendships with his protandeacute;gandeacute; Joe De Yong, sporting artist Philip Goodwin, and andldquo;kindred spiritandrdquo; Maynard Dixon, famed interpreter of the Southwest.
Synopsis
Although he was painfully reserved among strangers, the artist Charles M. Russell had a knack for making lifelong friends. This issue of Western Passages is devoted to one group among Russellandrsquo;s diverse tribe of comrades: his fellow artists.
About the Author
Peter H. Hassrick is Director Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming, and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein (coauthored with Elizabeth J. Cunningham).Thomas Brent Smith is director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art at the Denver Art Museum. He previously served as curator of art of the American West at the Tucson Museum of Art, where he curated the exhibition A Place of Refuge: Maynard Dixonandrsquo;s Arizona and authored the eponymous publication.and#160;Smith was a Robert S. and Grace B. Kerr Foundation graduate fellow at the University of Oklahomaandrsquo;s Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West.Brian W. Dippie is retired as Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The leading authority on Russell, he is the author of numerous books and articles on the history and art of the American West, including The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy and Charles M. Russell: Word Painter.Mark Andrew White is the Eugene B. Adkins Senior Curator and Curator of Collections of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma.
Joan Carpenter Troccoli retired as Senior Scholar of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art of the Denver Art Museum in June 2012. She is the Founding Director of the Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum, a position in which she served from 2001-05. From 1996-2001, she was Deputy Director of the Denver Art Museum. Before coming to Denver in 1995, she was a Curator of Art and subsequently Director of Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She holds a B. A. from Middlebury College and master's and doctoral degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.