475+ Classic Western Illustrations by 4 of the Greatest Western Painters.

80+ Farny gouache, watercolor and oil paintings include; Indian tribes of the Apache, Moki, Cheyenne and Sioux, Crow, Zuni and Nez Perce. Depictions of indians; scouting, hunting and ambushing, dancing and everyday life on the frontier. Indian chiefs, scouts, warriors and braves, fishermen, water carriers and medicine men. A few paintings of cowboys and settler's on the plain are also included.

18+ Ranney paintings. Not as prolific as Remington, Russell and Farny, Ranney's paintings show us everyday life on the frontier. Duck shooting, animal trapping and hunting, prairie fires and death, are shown in his wonderful illustrations.

200+ Remington works include; a beautiful collection of color and b&W, gouache, watercolor and oil, pen and ink plates reproduced with expressive and imaginative scenes of frontier life in the West. Indian tribes of the Apache, Cheyenne, Navajo and Sioux. Western scouts, trappers, hunting and fishing, cattle drives and more. His early works as well as magazine illustrations, bronze sculptures and most notable paintings throughout his life. A wonderful example of his work.

150+ Russell works include; accurate depictions of early life in the west using gouche, pencil, watercolor and oils on canvas and wood. Russell himself was a cowboy who identified with the subjects he created. Beautiful portraits of indian life on the plains, in addition to struggles with the white man. Also, early scenes of western expansion with Lewis and Clark. Russell's humorous side are revealed in "The Tenderfoot," one of many illustrations he painted for Century magazine and Sports Afield. His whimsical wax and clay figures and his amazing bronze sculptures are also represented.

Image screen sizes average 1600 x 1200 at 300 dpi.

80+ Farny gouache, watercolor and oil paintings include; Indian tribes of the Apache, Moki, Cheyenne and Sioux, Crow, Zuni and Nez Perce. Depictions of indians; scouting, hunting and ambushing, dancing and everyday life on the frontier. Indian chiefs, scouts, warriors and braves, fishermen, water carriers and medicine men. A few paintings of cowboys and settler's on the plain are also included.

Cincinnati painter Henry Farny gained renown for his somewhat idealized, but largely realistic depictions of Native American life, especially for his empathetic portrayals of Blackfoot, Zuni, Apache and Plains Indian subjects. He was born in Ribeauville, France in 1847 and came to the U.S in 1853. In 1859, he and his family moved to Cincinnati, a city with a strong economic and popular interest in the Western States. Farny trained at the detail-oriented Dusseldorf Academy in Germany, and painted a 'Great West' more realistic than the fanciful 'Wild West' of Frederick Remington and Charles M. Russell.

Image screen sizes average 1600 x 1280 at 300 dpi.

200+ Remington works include; a beautiful collection of color and b&W, gouache, watercolor and oil, pen and ink plates reproduced with expressive and imaginative scenes of frontier life in the West. Indian tribes of the Apache, Cheyenne, Navajo and Sioux. Western scouts, trappers, hunting and fishing, cattle drives and more. His early works as well as magazine illustrations, bronze sculptures and most notable paintings throughout his life. A wonderful example of his work.

American painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer, born in Canton, N.Y., studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League. His subjects, drawn largely from his life on the Western plains, are chiefly horses, soldiers, Native Americans, and cowboys, each modeled or painted with sympathetic understanding and usually in spirited action. His paintings are exciting and accurate portrayals of the West and have been extensively reproduced in color prints. Remington was war correspondent for the Hearst papers in the Spanish-American War. An indefatigable worker, he completed more than 2,700 paintings and drawings.

Image screen sizes average 1600 x 1280 at 300 dpi.

150+ Russell works include; accurate depictions of early life in the west using gouche, pencil, watercolor and oils on canvas and wood. Russell himself was a cowboy who identified with the subjects he created. Beautiful portraits of indian life on the plains, in addition to struggles with the white man. Also, early scenes of western expansion with Lewis and Clark. Russell's humorous side are revealed in "The Tenderfoot," one of many illustrations he painted for Century magazine and Sports Afield. His whimsical wax and clay figures and his amazing bronze sculptures are also represented.

Charles Marion Russell was born on March 19, 1864, near St. Louis, Missouri. Russell was an accomplished painter, sculptor and Illustrator whose fascination with the American West resulted in over 2500 works of art. Russell's family was of some prominence in business and public affairs and had strong ties to the West. A great-grandfather , Silas Bent, had been in charge of surveying the Louisiana Territory and was later an eminent Justice. Four great-uncles, William (married into the Cheyenne indians), Charles (appointed the first American govenor of New Mexico), George and Robert Bent, had been fur traders on the upper Missouri and builders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas in 1828.  Shortly before turning 16, Russell was sent by his parents to Montana, in hopes it would settle him down and prepare him for the family business back home. He spent the next eleven years working various ranching jobs. He sketched in his free time and soon gained a local reputation as an artist. His firsthand experience as a ranch hand and his intimate knowledge of outdoor life contributed to the precise realism characteristic of his style. Russell achieved national recognition after he married Nancy Cooper in September, 1896. With her guidance, support and natural business sense, Russell sold his paintings for thousands and tens of thousands of dollars and began a successful career as an Illustrator.

Image screen sizes average 1600 x 1280 at 300 dpi.