Charlie Russell and Friends

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 Russell's diverse tribe of comrades: his fellow artists. 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. Particular attention is paid to Russell's friendships with his protege Joe De Yong, sporting artist Philip Goodwin, and kindred spirit and famed interpreter of the Southwest Maynard Dixon.