The Poker Game
1894
Charles Marion Russell captures a tense moment of high-stakes camaraderie in the Old West, where a cowboy, a Native American, and a frontiersman square off over a hand of cards on a vibrant red blanket. Painted in 1894, this masterpiece of Western art strips away the usual gunfight drama to show a rare, quiet moment of cross-cultural friendship and trust. The horses grazing peacefully in the background and the distant log cabin ground the scene in the rugged Montana landscape that Russell knew so intimately.
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