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The Breaks

The Breaks

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The Breaks
ArtistAmerican, 1864–1926
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Breaks
Date1911
MediumWatercolor and gouache on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 10 × 14 3/4 in. (25.4 × 37.5 cm)
 Frame: 22 × 26 × 2 1/2 in. (55.9 × 66 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Duncan W. Corbett
Object number2024.561
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
105 Enron Orientation Gallery
On view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, 1911; Captain Albert W. Lilienthal, 1911; Private collection, Colorado; [Fred A. Rosenstock Books, Denver, Colorado]; Private collection, 1997. Larry Len and LeAnne Peterson Big Sky Collection, 1999; [Coeur d’Alene, ID, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, 2024 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, July 27, 2024, lot 145]; purchased by Duncan Corbett, Houston, July 27, 2024; given to MFAH, 2024.
Exhibition HistoryThe West That Has Passed, Folsom Galleries, New York, NY, 1911.
Published References Peterson, Larry Len. Charles M. Russell, Legacy: Printed and Published Works of Montana’s Cowboy Artist. Great Falls and Helena, MT: C. M. Russell Museum and Twodot Books, 1999. 240, 243, illustrated. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Initialed, monogrammed, and dated, lower left corner: CMR [buffalo skull] 1911
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Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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