Russell Chatham (American, 1939-2019). "Fall Evening" color lithograph, 1984. Edition 141 of 275. Hand-signed, numbered, and dated in pencil on lower right. A breathtaking color lithograph of magnificent size by American artist Russell Chatham titled "Fall Evening." The sweeping composition depicts a sunset over rolling grassy hills in the foreground and a towering pine forest of the midground. The glowing, coral pink of the sky is highlighted by the dark steel blue of the clouds and midnight green of the woodland, as hues of warm tan seem to peak through areas of the fern green grass. Scattered areas of cyan blue sky and emerald grove add further contrast to the composition, while a few tall peaks of trees rise over the otherwise unified horizon. Size of lithograph: 45" W x 34.25" H (114.3 cm x 87 cm); of : 45.5" W x 34.5" H (115.6 cm x 87.6 cm)

Note how Chatham's busy, energetic strokes emphasize the density of the great forest, conveying the multitude of tightly-packed trees that comprise it, as well as the tangled underbrush of the hills and how all are slowly being swallowed by the night's dark shadow. Chatham as chiefly known for his dynamic renderings of natural settings in the American West, as seen in this example.

According to Saper Galleries where the artist opened a major exhibition in May 1994: "Russell Chatham was born in San Francisco on October 27, 1939. He lived in the city until 1949 when his family moved to San Anselmo, where he spent the next twelve years. For the following eleven years, he worked and lived in Marshall, San Rafael, San Anselmo, Black Point, Bolinas, and Nicasio, earning his living as a sign painter and cabinetmaker slash carpenter. In the spring of 1972 he moved to Livingston, Montana. As a painter and author, Chatham is self-taught. He is the grandson of the great landscape painter Gottardo Piazzoni.

He began exhibiting formally in 1958, and since then has had something on the order of four hundred one man shows at museums, art centers, private galleries, schools, colleges and universities not only throughout the west in places like Sun Valley, Aspen, Santa Fe and Denver, but also in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. His work has also been exhibited in Europe and the Orient. Chatham began printmaking in 1981, and is today regarded as one of the world's foremost lithographers.

Publications about Chatham include a catalogue called One Hundred Paintings, and another about his original lithographs called The Missouri Headwaters. Several new books are in production, scheduled for release in 2005. One is called Selected Lithographs, another is The Seasons, a survey of the large format canvasses, and the third is a book of the Marin County paintings done from 1999 through 2005. Chatham has been profiled in Esquire, Southwest Art, People, U.S. Art, Antiques and Fine Art, Architectural Digest, Smart, The Denver Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, The Associated Press, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and Fresh Air, PBS, and CBS Sunday Morning.

In 1995, Chatham conceived and designed a restaurant. Chatham's Livingston Bar & Grille was built during the first ten and a half months of 1996, opening on November 15th of that year. Having celebrated its ninth New Year's Eve with a formal dinner and dance, the restaurant is enjoying a reputation as one of the Rocky Mountain region's premier dining establishments.

Among Chatham's private collectors are authors Peter Matthiessen, David Halberstam, Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane, William Hjortsberg, James Crumley, Richard Ford, Rick Bass, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Carl Hiaasen, and the late Richard Brautigan; editors and publishers, Jann Wenner, the late Seymour Lawrence, Terry McDonell, and William Randolph Hearst, III; New York restaurateur Elaine Kaufman; cartoonists William Hamilton, Guindon, and the late B. Kliban; former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent; art critic Robert Hughes; media correspondents Tom Brokaw, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer, Van Gordon Sauter, and the late Charles Kuralt; entrepreneurs Yvon Chouinard, Paul Allen, and Tom Seibel; entertainment personalities Michael Keaton, Rip Torn, Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, the late Sam Peckinpah, Jeff Bridges, Peter and Jane Fonda, Sydney Pollack, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sean Connery, Harry Dean Stanton, Angelica Huston, Jimmy Buffet, Dave Grusin, Don Henley, Glenn Frye, Dennis and Randy Quaid, Meg Ryan, the late Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Ali MacGraw, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Robert Redford, and Harrison Ford

Russell Chatham lived in Livingston, Montana, later California, and died November 10, 2019."

Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; private collection of a private Colorado, USA family

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Hand-signed, numbered, and dated in pencil on lower right. Set on foam board backing and covered in protective plastic cover with some tears and wrinkling to cover. Lithograph has not been examined outside of film or off of board but appears to be in excellent overall condition.