From Nancy C. Russell to Mr. Erwin S. Barrie / Nancy C. Russell
Gilcrease Museum
Trail’s End
Pasadena, California
October 18th, 1927
Mr. Erwin S. Barrie
Grand Central Art Galleries
15 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, N.Y.
AIR MAIL
Dear Mr. Barrie:
Upon my return to Trail’s End I found your two letters
of October fifth and fourteenth. I wired you today as follows:
“Letter received. I will take the month of
November for Memorial Exhibition as originally
planned opening the seventh. Had letter from
Doctor Cole. Will you consult him regarding
number of pictures you wish to borrow from his
collection. I am writing full description of
number I have to ship. Make four bronzes One
Thousand Dollars to Cole.”
In the letter that I had from Dr. Cole he seemed to think
it was a great mistake my not going on with the exhibition this
fall. We had talked of the show a good deal to our very best
clients but you had not given me a definite date and I just felt
possibly the exhibition should not be put on this year, that you
were not quite ready for it, but your letter has removed all of
that feeling and I am sure by the end of three weeks we can get
the thing together so that it will do credit first to Charlie,
and second to the Gallery.
I am enclosing the list of the pictures that I can send
and their titles. If you will either go to Dr. Cole’s residence
or have someone go for you and find out the size and number of
pictures that he would be willing that you should use from his
collection. He has been most generous in offering to loan them
and to him they are very great treasures, the same as to me and
I appreciate so much his willingness to allow them to be used.
There is also the McKay collection in Inglewood. I will write
Mr. McKay if he wishes to loan any of them. This is more in form
of compliment than the desire of having the responsibility of
his pictures. Them a Mr. Sack there in New York has two oils that
I would be happy to hang in the exhibition, one I will ship with
my things from here, the other we will get from his apartment.
You said you would tend to all details. If there is anything
that I should know please wire me as letters take such a long time
to be delivered here. How many pieces of bronze have you from the
Roman Bronze Works?
Sincerely,
725 Michigan Blvd., Pasadena
LIST OF PAINTINGS FOR EXHIBITION
“The Stranglers”
“Wolf Men” (loaned)
“The Vaquero of Old California”
“In the Enemies Country” (loaned by Geo. D. Sack)
“Bruin, not Bunny turned the Leaders”
“Smoke Talk”
“When Horses turn back there is Danger Ahead”
“The Slick Ear”
“Where Mules Wear Diamonds”
“Free Trapper”
“A War Party” (loaned)
“Roping Fresh Mounts” (loaned)
“Piegans” (loaned)
“Romance Makers” (loaned)
“When Sioux and Blackfeet Meet”
“Signal Gass”
“Call of the Law”
“Signal Smoke”
“A Tight Dalley and Loose Latigo”

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Typed letter with an inventory page from Nancy C. Russell to E.S. Barrie dated October 18th, 1927 about plans concerning a Charles M. Russell memorial exhibit,
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Title(s):
From Nancy C. Russell to Mr. Erwin S. Barrie
Creator(s):
Nancy C. Russell (Subject);
Erwin S. Barrie (Author)
Culture:
American
Date:
October 18, 1927
Materials/Techniques:
ink on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
Classification:
Object Type:
Credit Line:
Gilcrease Museum/The University of Tulsa
Accession No:
TU2009.39.1193
Previous Number(s):
C.3.289
Department:
Not On View
Creator:
Role(s):
Subject
Creator:
Role(s):
Author
Trail’s End
Pasadena, California
October 18th, 1927
Mr. Erwin S. Barrie
Grand Central Art Galleries
15 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, N.Y.
AIR MAIL
Dear Mr. ...
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Pasadena, California
October 18th, 1927
Mr. Erwin S. Barrie
Grand Central Art Galleries
15 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, N.Y.
AIR MAIL
Dear Mr. ...
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Russell, Nancy. From Nancy C. Russell to Mr. Erwin S. Barrie. TU2009.39.1193. Charles M. Russell Research Collection (Britzman). October 18, 1927. Tulsa: Gilcrease Museum, https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/tu2009391193 (08/17/2016).
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