Support as co-nominator –
Hafspajen (
talk) 18:04, 31 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Support as co-nominator –
Godot13 (
talk) 20:57, 31 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment: Knowing CMR as I do, the image looks a wee bit washed-out, as if it had been sitting in the sun. Which, for the original, is entirely possible (CMR had a tendency to trade paintings for services so some of them hung in bars and family homes for decades). His colors are usually a bit more saturated.
Montanabw(talk) 23:08, 31 December 2015 (UTC)reply
On one hand, I agree with you and support on the grounds that this particular one is not a painting I've seen IRL, so it may well be faded; on the other hand, All the images at that site from Amon Carter museum look a bit washed-out to me. Of the ones in Montana (two museums) I've seen many up close, multiple times (in fact, some of the much-lower quality image on wiki are photos I took of the actual art using a cheap camera and existing light with no tripod... meh); the Christmas greeting, for example, is on very weathered material, time has faded it. You may want to download and compare the
PowerPoint of the Russell images at this link, which I think are better-quality scans and more accurately portray his range. The Russell palette is unique; his best work portrays the light of the Montana landscape with considerable accuracy (as those of us who live here know...) some have even dubbed his use of light in his oils as "Charlie Russell light." Montana is a dry state, but it's not a washed-out desert — that's one of the big differences between Russell and the less-talented but better-known
Remington (whose work was more typical of the southwest). ;-)
Montanabw(talk) 20:42, 1 January 2016 (UTC)reply