Sundown at Russell Point

I visited this very special place, in the mountains twenty miles west of Utica, Montana. I am a member of the Montana Painters' Alliance and every year our group of 25 artists paint on location in two places in the state of Montana. This is the place that the famed Charlie Russell first came to in Montana and cowboy'd and painted there at a site called Jake Hoovers Cabin. This location was named after him as it was a place he painted often. The C.M. Russell Museum chartered two buses with patrons to watch us paint and walk on this hallowed ground. We endured 100° temperatures and biting horse flies and mosquitoes in July, staying in tents and in sleeping bags with no running water, but all of us would never trade those memories of that special place. I created this studio piece from my plain air studies.