Russ Vickers
1923-1997
Contact with the Renegades
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DIMENSIONS: 20 x 40 inches
Signed lower right and dated 86
Signed, titled and dated verso
SOLD FOR: $ 8,190
Including Buyers Premium
2018,
LOT 50
Additional Information
Russ Vickers began his career as a commercial illustrator in the aerospace industry in Los Angeles. In 1970, his paintings were featured over the opening and closing credits in the John Wayne film Chisum and he began showing his work in Sedona. Three years later, Vickers moved to Arizona, where he enjoyed a successful career as an easel painter of Western historical subjects such as this painting of a charging cavalry troop, Contact with the Renegades.