Can you help me find the name and painter of this painting, please?

Question

When I had visited the CM Russell gallery in Great Falls, Montana, several years ago, there was a specific painting I would like to find. I had originally thought it was called "moving day" and that it was painted by CM Russell but I've searched it online and can't find the exact one. It was a painting of a Native American woman seated on a horse with a travois and looking over the plains, I think there was a river and a maybe another woman on a horse with travois. The look on her face was priceless...it really showed the exasperation of moving day. Can you tell me the actual painter and name of the painting or where it can be found, online? I've already looked at the CM Russell Gallery online and google searched. I did find one similar by C M Russell but was not the exact one.

Answer 1

Hi! I found a number of his pieces that might fit your description. Could it be one of these?

http://www.bbhc.org/img/wgwa/21.70_L.jpg
http://www.bbhc.org/wgwa/russell.cfm
http://store.encore-editions.com/Artist/cmrs45.html
http://store.encore-editions.com/artist/CRUSS119.html
http://store.encore-editions.com/Artist/cmrs81.html
http://store.encore-editions.com/Artist/cmrs87.html
http://store.encore-editions.com/Artist/cmrs92.html
http://store.encore-editions.com/artist/CRUSS146.html
http://store.encore-editions.com/Artist/cmrs18.html
http://www.calneva.com/GALLERY/WOMMOV.HTM
http://www.calneva.com/GALLERY/LONGTRL.HTM
http://www.calneva.com/GALLERY/MOVNCMP.HTM
http://www.calneva.com/GALLERY/NWHNTN1.HTM
http://www.calneva.com/GALLERY/AMERWMN.HTM
http://www.calneva.com/GALLERY/WOMNPLNS.HTM
http://www.calneva.com/gallery/travois.htm

American Indian women played important roles in a number of Russell paintings, such as Indian Women Moving Camp, and he produced several versions of the subject. The seasonal rounds of Plains tribes provided the artist with the opportunity of depicting the Indian women proudly riding on horseback. He used a compositional group placed at a slight diagonal to the picture plane that is similar to his subject of Indian warriors. Thus he accords the same dignity to the women's work and reveals his admiration for the resourcefulness, independence, and courage of Plains Indian women.

Answer 2

Charles M. Russell ~ Indian Family with Travois, 1897
http://www.cartermuseum.org/works-of-art/1961-141
Charles M. Russell ~ Indian Women Moving, 1898
http://www.cartermuseum.org/works-of-art/1961-147

Answer 3

Its amazing how much information you can get from the people that work there. Call them at [phone]. Eventually, you are bound to get somwone who is just as much into his work as you are and will know which painting you speak of. I have identified many such things that I am passionate about in this way.
For some of us, art is a romance. There is not a work of art that would not survive even if every single copy were destroyed, because there are devoted fans that would recreate these things from heart and memory shoudl such an ocurrance happen.

Answer 4

I think it would be worth while you contacting the museum and asking if they know the whereabouts of this picture. Although you didn't find it on the online list, they may have it in their storeroom, particularly if there is a similar one by him. Their contact phone no. given especially for enquiries about Charlie Russell, is Librarian Sharon McGowan:[phone] x149.

Answer 5

If the paining was a watercolor, I'd guess Carol Grigg. Many of her paintings feature women & horses. A second guess would be RC Gorman.