Vintage print :
" Breaking Camp "
After a watercolor painted in the year 1897 by Charles M. Russell (1864 -1926), American artist of the American Old West.

Native American people of the plains, old American West.
Indian women breaking and moving camp , with horses , travois , dogs , etc., under a big western sky.

11 3/4" x 15 7/8"
Print on paper, mounted on cardboard.
Undated and publisher not attributed.
This appears to have been made in the 1970s, perhaps earlier.
About 50+ years old.
The print has scuffs, etc., and the cardboard is a little warped.
( see the photos )

Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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Additional Information :

Charles Marion Russell ( born in St. Louis , Missouri on March 19, 1864 – died October 24, 1926),  also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures.
Russell is known as " the cowboy artist " and was also a storyteller and author. Like Frederic Remington , Russell chronicled life in the Wild West. Unlike Remington however, Russell settled permanently in the west ( Montana ) and wholeheartedly embraced everything life there had to offer. He was a "real" cowboy, lived with a mountain man and was an adopted brother of the Blackfoot tribe.
Russell's oils, watercolors and bronzes reflect an intimate knowledge of his subjects.
He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana. In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation.

No one was more surprised than Charles Russell himself when, in his own lifetime, his paintings began fetching high prices.

The C. M. Russell Museum Complex in Great Falls , Montana houses more than 2,000 Russell artworks, personal objects, and artifacts. Other major collections are held at the Montana Historical Society in Helena, Montana, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody , Wyoming , the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth , Texas , and the Sid Richardson Museum in Fort Worth. His mural Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flathead Indians hangs in the state capitol building in Helena , Montana.
Russell was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in 1955.

As an artist, Russell emerged at a time when the Wild West was of intense interest to people who lived in cities, and cattle drives were still being conducted over long distances. He painted images of the Old West that were later adopted by Westerns, which became a movie staple.

Russell died of heart failure in Great Falls , Montana , in 1926 . Thousands of people gathered outside the church for the funeral. Russell's coffin was displayed in a glass-sided coach, pulled by four black horses.
Today, Russell is an icon on the American West , and his artwork consistently fetches very high prices.
In 2005 his 1918 painting " Piegans " sold for $5.6 million at auction.

The final resting place of Charles Marion Russell is in Highland Cemetery , Great Falls , Cascade County, Montana.