Thursday, May 25, 2023

Making a Cigarette, 1911, Charles M. Russell

 


6 comments:

  1. Original at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth.

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  2. Loose tobacco is the only way some people can afford to smoke cigarettes. Sometimes it's sold as pipe tobacco so it isn't taxed as much.

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  3. Charlie Russell was a working cowboy turned artist, not an easterner artist like Frederic Remington. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Both of their works were great. There was just something a little more authentic about Charlie's work.

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  4. My Grandpa was born in 1910. Started smoking when he was 10. Rolled his own his whole life. Lived to be 91 - said that’s why.

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  5. My two favorite Elmo spent many an hour at the cowboy Hall of Fame. One always presented them under nourished, which was probably closer to reality the other always portrayed them fat and happy.

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