| Russell Chatham
was born in San Francisco on October 27, 1939. He lived in the Bay Area until
moving to Park County, Montana in the spring of 1972. As a painter and writer,
Chatham is self-taught.
Since 1958 he has had more than three hundred
one man exhibitions. His work has been exhibited in England, France and Japan.
Chatham began producing "original lithographs" in 1982, and today is considered
one of the world's foremost lithographers.
Publications about Chatham
include a catalog of paintings called "100 Paintings", and another about his original
lithographs called "The Missouri Headwaters". He has been profiled in Esquire,
Southwest Art, People, U.S. Art, Antiques and Fine Art, Architectural Digest,
Smart, the Denver Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner,
the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Seattle Times,
the Associated Press, National Public Radio's Morning Edition and Fresh Air, PBS
and CBS Sunday Morning.
Chatham's writing includes hundreds of articles,
reviews, short stories and essays about fly fishing, bird hunting and conservation,
as well as a number of pieces on food and wine. He is the founder and publisher
of Clark City Press which since 1989 has published 28 books of fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, art, photography and children's classics, all of which have given the
Livingston-based company a fine national and international reputation.
Among Chatham's private collectors are authors Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Harrison,
Thomas McGuane, James Crumley, and James Walch; television journalists Tom Brokaw
and Ed Bradley; and movie stars Michael Keaton, Jeff Bridges, Peter Fonda, Warren
Beatty, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford and Jack Nicholson.
Russell Chatham
lives on an old homestead at the head of Deep Creek, eight miles outside of Livingston,
Montana.
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