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Russ Vickers

Russ Vickers (1923 - 1997) was active/lived in California, Arizona.  Russ Vickers is known for Indian-western genre-views, illustrator.

The following is from Kathleen Wade:

Russ Vickers was noted as the artist for paintings shown at the beginning and
ending credits of the movie, CHISUM, starring John Wayne. There is one
painting in particular that begins the movie ... a lone horseman staring off into the land while under a sparse shady tree ... which then switches to the film's first frame and same shot of John Wayne's character looking out towards his land.
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Russ Vickers was a painter in realist or traditional style of western scenes, beginning with the Civil War and moving forward. He was born in Paris, Texas, and his father was a horse trader. He served in the Marines in World War II and as a combat artist in Korea.

He had little formal schooling and spent about twenty years as a technical illustrator for the aerospace industry in Los Angeles, painting western genre in his spare time. In 1970, he took the correspondence c   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1242 characters.]  Artist bio

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9 Book References for Russ Vickers
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Southwest Art Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art 64 No
1993 Southwest Art The Red Book Western American Price Index 126 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1982 Dobbs, Joanne; Jerry A. Schefcik A Western American Vision of Art, History and Work Francis King Collection 52 Yes
1982 Samuels, Peggy and Harold Contemporary Western Artists 608 Yes
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