Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Charles Marion Russell – Smoke of a .45 – Google Art Project.jpg

Smoke of a .45
Voting period ends on 13 Jan 2016 at 18:04:16 (UTC)
 * Reason:It is not dark, (!), it is a reasonable good scan and made by Charles Marion Russell, oil on canvas, 1908 - who was a rather fascinating painter. No FPs yet by Charles Marion Russell. The painting is in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
 * Articles in which this image appears: Charles Marion Russell, Development of Red Dead Redemption, List of paintings by Charles Marion Russell
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings or ... Lifestyle?
 * How about "history"


 * Creator: Charles Marion Russell, uploader Godot.


 * Support as co-nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 18:04, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Support as co-nominator – Godot13 (talk) 20:57, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: Knowing CMR as I do, the image looks a wee bit washed-out, as if it had been sitting in the sun.  Which, for the original, is entirely possible (CMR had a tendency to trade paintings for services so some of them hung in bars and family homes for decades). His colors are usually a bit more saturated.  Montanabw (talk)  23:08, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Some yes, some no, as far as I noticed, like that Self-portrait with Christmas greeting and studing those files. (There's a  whole lot on my page) He has both very colourful paintings and even light  watercolor paintings and like this  and very fine drawings too. And some in between. He was not an one sided artist. Hafspajen (talk) 00:02, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * On one hand, I agree with you and support on the grounds that this particular one is not a painting I've seen IRL, so it may well be faded; on the other hand, All the images at that site from Amon Carter museum look a bit washed-out to me. Of the ones in Montana (two museums) I've seen many up close, multiple times (in fact, some of the much-lower quality image on wiki are photos I took of the actual art using a cheap camera and existing light with no tripod... meh); the Christmas greeting, for example, is on very weathered material, time has faded it. You may want to download and compare the PowerPoint of the Russell images at this link, which I think are better-quality scans and more accurately portray his range. The Russell palette is unique; his best work portrays the light of the Montana landscape with considerable accuracy (as those of us who live here know...) some have even dubbed his use of light in his oils as "Charlie Russell light." Montana is a dry state, but it's not a washed-out desert — that's one of the big differences between Russell and the less-talented but better-known Remington (whose work was more typical of the southwest).  ;-)   Montanabw (talk)  20:42, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support - — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support – DreamSparrow  Chat   18:34, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support - Miyagawa (talk) 20:10, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support – Yann (talk) 20:16, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 20:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC)