The C.M. Russell Museum has announced record-setting results from The Russell Exhibition and Sale that took place in Great Falls from March 17–19. This year’s gross total of $9.4 million raised for the nonprofit museum beat the previous record of $8.1 million in 2015.
The most celebrated sale of The Russell Live Auction was Thomas Moran’s oil painting, Castle Rock, Green River, Wyoming, 1907, which sold for $3.6 million, the highest price ever paid for an artwork in The Russell.