Biography
Born in San Francisco in 1939, Russell Chatham is a contemporary American landscape artist and author who spent most of his career living in Livingston, Montana. In the early 1980s, Chatham began making lithographs and now stands as one of the world’s foremost practitioners of the craft. Chatham’s lithographs may consist of 30 or 40 different layers of color, all of which have to be hand drawn on the matrices, achieving the final effect of the subtle shadings and quiet colors. His work has been exhibited in over 400 one-man shows and museums and galleries all over the last five decades. Notable art critic Robert Hughes is numbered as one of Chatham’s collectors as well as Paul Allen and actor Jack Nicholson.