One Hundred Paintings. [Limited Edition Together with Russell Chatham’s Gallery Exhibit Binder Containing 93 Color Images of Russell’s Lithographs Offered for Sale].

Livingston, Montana. Clark City Press. 1990. Oblong Quarto (9 1/2 x 10 1/2). 135 pp. plus colophon. Limited Edition. Book number 120 of an unspecified edition. Inscribed, signed and dated by Russell on the half-title page. With a pencil sketch drawn by Russ underneath the inscription, and with a tipped-in color print of Russ’s original oil on canvas painting "The Seasons" in the collection of the Museum of the Rockies mounted on the dedication leaf. Essays by Jim Harrison, Chris Waddington, and Russell Chatham. With color reproductions of 100 paintings by Chatham, which trace his thirty-year career as a landscape painter from his California period through his Montana period. This limited edition is a bit of an anomaly: the book is bound in beige cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover, like the regular limited edition, and it’s numbered 120 by Russ on the colophon page, like the others. It has a silk ribbon marker. And it has a pictorial dust jacket, while the regular limited edition does not; it’s the same jacket issued with the trade cloth bound copies. There’s no slip case with this book. And at the same time this limited edition appears to throw a little sand in the publishing gears regarding the number of copies actually made available to the public - heretofore the consensus on the number of copies of the limited edition published has more or less settled on 275 - is this hybrid limited included in that number? It’s anyone’s guess. The book is in fine condition and the jacket is near fine with a little rubbing at bottom of the jacket’s spine. //////////// Accompanying the book is Russell’s Gallery Exhibit Binder which holds 93 colored photos showing Russ’s lithographs (mostly Montana scenes) available for sale; the binder was used by gallery folks to keep track and record inventory. The images range in size from 11 x 8 1/2 to 5 x 6 inches and each image is identified along with the year completed. There’s an introductory essay written by Russ titled "Is it a Lithograph, or is it a Lithograph?" with a typed tab attached which reads "Russell Chatham." The photos are kept in plastic sleeves in a three-ring binder. Images under the headings "Rare Prints" and "Latest Releases" show the price for each lithograph penned in ink underneath the photo. There’s also a few additional and separate color photos kept in a sleeve, ranging from photos of Russ’s paintings and lithos and a couple of unidentified photos. The photos and binder in fine condition.. Signed by Author.