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bronze, one of 14 unnumbered casts Frederic Renner owned the original plaster model for this bronze, an edition of which he personally had cast and then marketed through the Montana Historical Society in Helena. In Charles M. Russell: The Frederic G. Renner Collection, Ginger Renner wrote the following anecdote about the first owners of the plaster model, which Charles Russell had given as a gift (p. 59):The original model of Blackfoot War Chief, executed in 1900, was Russell's first major sculpture. Illustrated in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper in 1903, nothing was known about it by the public for another fifty-six years and it was long considered a lost Russell. When finally located, it was learned that Russell had given the model to a friend as a wedding present in 1911. It was obvious the surviving wife didn't especially admire the beautifully painted model, because when pressed for a reason, she revealed that on their honeymoon her husband had spent more time admiring the model of Blackfoot War Chief than he did his new bride.This lot includes a 1972 note from Renner on the letterhead of R. D. Warden, editor of the Great Falls Tribune, stating that the work is based on an authentic Russell model.