Russell Chatham

Russell Chatham (October 27, 1939 – November 10, 2019) was a contemporary American landscape player and author who spent most of his career energetic in Livingston, Montana. The player was the grandson of landscape painter Gottardo Piazzoni, though he was truly a self-taught artist. His statute has been exhibited in beyond 400 one man shows and in museums and galleries greater than the last five decades. Art scribe Robert Hughes was along with Chatham's collectors along taking into consideration Paul Allen and actor Jack Nicholson. Chatham's exploit eschewed the narrative tendency of much western art and presented landscapes that stand in intimate attachment towards the human figure even in the malingering of it. In the in advance 1980s Chatham began making lithographs and stood as one of the world's foremost practitioners of that craft.

In adjunct to Lithography, Chatham moreover produced original oil paintings. His oil paintings currently sell for tens of thousands of dollars, and there was a multi-year waiting list for commissions, but according to his dealers, he preferred printing lithographs as the more challenging art form. (Longtime Livingston residents can recall a time next early in his career Chatham traded his canvases for indispensable services in a barter arrangement.) Despite innate a print, Chatham's lithographs have Tiny to realize with futuristic process lithography, which always starts from a photograph and typically abandoned uses 4 colors. His art lithographs may have 30 or 40 substitute layers of color, all of which have to be hand drawn upon to the printing plate, and the colors prearranged for the unmodified effect. To look some of the beforehand proofs of one of his prints is to look a psychotherapy in radiant and unfamiliar colors from which it is on the order of impossible to conceive of the definite subtle shadings and quiet colors.

In accessory to his feign as a painter, Chatham plus authored several books. a series of rushed stories "Dark Waters" in which he detailed the exploits of his hunting friends, like the author Jim Harrison. The stories were Rabelaisian, vulgar, and exquisitely written (one suspects once a Tiny help from his studious friends). William Hjortsberg disputed this during a presentation in Livingston upon 9/12/2008. "He is quite a good writer in his own right," Hjortsberg said. They center upon hunting, fly fishing, food, wine and vigor changes. One bank account centers regarding preparing roast duck upon an annual drying devoted solely to excess. In auxiliary to "Dark Waters", Chatham authored several books virtually fly fishing.

Many of Chatham's painted works have adorned the covers of Harrison's works.

In 2011, Chatham moved from Livingston encourage to California. He had a studio in Marshall, California.