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Lot Essay
The present work has been assigned number CR.PC.129 by the Charles M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné Committee.
In 1906, Charles Russell built a cabin named Bull Head Lodge on Lake McDonald, the largest lake in Glacier National Park, Montana. Over the next two decades, including after the official establishment of the park in 1910, Russell would host other artists, such as Maynard Dixon, Joseph Henry Sharp and Philip Goodwin, who also found inspiration in the stunning natural landscape at his getaway. As Russell praised in a 1915 letter to a friend, "I spend my summers at Lake McDonald on the west side of the mane range where I have a cabon [sic]. Is about as wild a place as you can find these days and that is what I like...If its laying down you need Lake McDonald is the best ground in the world and my lodge is open and the pipe lit for you and yours. You know that lake country sings the cradle song to all who lay in her lap." (as quoted in L.L. Peterson, Charles M. Russell: Printed Rarities from Private Collections, Missoula, Montana, 2008, p. 83)
The present work was originally owned by Katharine "Kittie" Kohnen, a close friend of Russell who in 1905 married her first husband, Robert P. Roberts, at the artist's Great Falls home and honeymooned with the Russells in a rented cabin at Lake McDonald. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts returned the following year to Russell's newly built cabin, at which time Russell presented them with a watercolor card to celebrate the occasion, and perhaps also the present work.
In 1906, Charles Russell built a cabin named Bull Head Lodge on Lake McDonald, the largest lake in Glacier National Park, Montana. Over the next two decades, including after the official establishment of the park in 1910, Russell would host other artists, such as Maynard Dixon, Joseph Henry Sharp and Philip Goodwin, who also found inspiration in the stunning natural landscape at his getaway. As Russell praised in a 1915 letter to a friend, "I spend my summers at Lake McDonald on the west side of the mane range where I have a cabon [sic]. Is about as wild a place as you can find these days and that is what I like...If its laying down you need Lake McDonald is the best ground in the world and my lodge is open and the pipe lit for you and yours. You know that lake country sings the cradle song to all who lay in her lap." (as quoted in L.L. Peterson, Charles M. Russell: Printed Rarities from Private Collections, Missoula, Montana, 2008, p. 83)
The present work was originally owned by Katharine "Kittie" Kohnen, a close friend of Russell who in 1905 married her first husband, Robert P. Roberts, at the artist's Great Falls home and honeymooned with the Russells in a rented cabin at Lake McDonald. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts returned the following year to Russell's newly built cabin, at which time Russell presented them with a watercolor card to celebrate the occasion, and perhaps also the present work.