Russell Chatham (October 27, 1939 – November 10, 2019)[1] was a contemporary American landscape artist and author who spent most of his career living in Livingston, Montana.
[4][5][6] Chatham's work eschewed the narrative tendency of much western art and presented landscapes that stand in intimate relationship towards the human figure even in the absence of it.
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 when early in his career Chatham traded his canvases for essential services in a barter arrangement.)
a series of short stories "Dark Waters" in which he detailed the exploits of his hunting friends, like the author Jim Harrison.