SEVEN DRAWINGS BY CHARLES M. RUSSELL with an additional drawing by TOM LEA by Dobie, J. Frank - 1950

El Paso: CARL HERTZOG, 1950. Limited Edition. Soft cover. FINE/good. Charles Marion Russell. Copy number 507 of 675 numbered sets. 8 frameable plates and an essay, four unnumbered pages, "The Conservatism of Charles M. Russell" by J. Frank Dobie. All reproduced in the original size and brought together in a portfolio by CARL HERTZOG (for C.R. Smith) at El Paso, Texas. Tweedweave dusty red paper portfolio, with two color printed title lable to upper panel. The prints and text measure 22 x 15 inches and are printed on Diploma parchment. 8 plates which includes the Tom Lea view of a cowboy and horse pausing to watch as an airplane flies over, are all in fine condition. The portfolio has some tiny scattered spots and wear.

Rarely seen for sale, the drawings are: Before This He Only Had Wolves Broke to Pack or Drag a Travois, Blackfeet Trading Party in Signt of Fort Benton, Cheyennes Watching Union Pacific Track Layers, A Diamond R Mule Team of the '70s, Pawnees See Water Monster, A Pony Express Rider Attacked by Indians, and A Swing Station on the Overland.
McVicker B74. Lowman - PRINTER AT THE PASS 70. DRD 768. Yost & Renner - p.140: 23.

SMITH, CYRUS ROWLETT (1899–1990). Cyrus Rowlett (C. R.) Smith, president and cofounder of American Airlines, was born in the small cotton-farming community of Minerva, Texas, on September 9, 1899, one of seven children of Roy E. and Marion Burch Smith. on the cover of Time magazine in 1958, and in 1961 he was one of only ten Americans to receive the Horatio Alger Award for his admirable ascent from austere beginnings. In addition to aviation Smith also had a strong love of the Old West and donated 575 volumes of Western Americana, now known as the Marian Burch Smith Collection, to the University of Texas library.
The University of Texas Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center houses the C. R. Smith Collection of Western Art, valued at approximately $2 million. Smith died on April 4, 1990, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.