Fishing the Colorado 2000

Year2000

Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassArchival Board With Corners, Wrapped 

Purchased fromPrivate Collector 2006 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID87710

Russell Chatham - United States

Art Brokerage: Russell Chatham American Artist: b.1939 - .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 nearly 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 Asia. Chatham began printmaking in 1980, and today is regarded as one of the world's foremost lithographers. Because of his work in lithography, which he developed in order to have something for those of ordinary means, it is estimated Chatham's original prints are in the hands of at least thirty thousand individuals. Original paintings wanted.