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Medium: Oil Support: Canvas Artist: Russell Cheney Artist Dates: 1881 - 1945 Country of Origin: United States of America Title & Description: Painting depicts a Mountainous landscape of the Western U. S. . Verso has a label which reads "Painting by Russell Cheney given from his studio by his heirs to Cam Becket." Signature: Unsigned Date of Work: 1st half 20th Century Frame: Original Work Size: 23.5" H x 28" W Frame Size: 25.5" H x 30" W x 2" D Weight: 6 pounds Condition: Three small pin holes in upper left and right corners. Artist Biography: Born in South Manchester, Connecticut in 1881, he was the grandson of artist John Cheney. Following graduation from Yale in 1904, Cheney studied at the ASL in NYC under Chase, Cox, and Woodbury, and in Paris at Académie Julian. Most of Cheney's career was spent in the East; however, bouts with tuberculosis forced him to seek warmer climates. Active in California from 1916, he often painted in Santa Barbara where his sister lived. He died in Kittery, Maine on July 12, 1945. A gay man, he had a forty-year love affair with English Literature Professor Francis Matthiessen, an authority on American Literature, who taught at Yale and Harvard Universities. Meta: painting, Western art