Beauty Parlor, 1907. Charles M. Russell.
Watercolor, 8 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Charles M. Russell Museum, Gift of the Josephine Trigg Estate.
Russell depicts a Blackfeet woman dressing the hair of her husband, who sits on a painted buffalo robe and regards himself in a tack-studded hand mirror. In this version, Russell lifts the tipi cover to indicate a warm day, allowing the colors of the warm sunlight to enter the interior and brighten the background. (text courtesy of Rick Stewart, Ph.D., and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art)
