CM Russell Museum

 

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scott p.

San Diego, CA

6/5/2007 1 photo

Well- let me tell you- it's certainly a good way to spend one hour or so while you are in Great Falls, Montana, that is for sure.  CM Russell is a famous (I know now, after going to this Museum) "cowboy" artist/sculptor/painter- kind of cross of Remington and Rockwell, who worked around the turn of the century and did pretty well with images of the just-vanished "Old West"- i.e. cowboys, indians & wild life.

The Museum is absurdly complete- sketches, sculptures, paintings, paintings by his comrades, gun collections, a library that looks like it would be pretty kick ass (appointment only), and an interactive children's play area(!)

That being said, the artist himself seems relatively inconsequential- we're talking "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light" but for cowboys n' indians.  It's a "Saturday Evening Post" type of place.

It is also $9 per adult to get in- which seems really, really, expensive even given the utter completeness of the collection.

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