Russell wrote to Matty while working on Fred Reading, 1929, “I wish I could show you this portrait…I do feel it’s solid and thorough, and it’s such a natural expression…just a sort of overflow of myself, not something [I] figured out to do. Just like a feller walking down the street and whistling a tune because he feels good. I don’t want to go out for subjects. They crowd me here.”
- Portrait of a Geologist (Levi F. Noble of Valyermo, CA), 50×40″ 1930
- 343 Buena Vista Rd or Three Friends, Santa Fe, NM or Three Figures, 38×52″ 1930
- At Cassis or Two Painters (Russell Cheney and Walter Griffin), 36×50″ 1930
- F.O. Matthiessen (Florence, Italy), 32.5×25.5″ 1926
- F.O. Matthiessen with Pansy Littlefield, 24.5×30″ 1926
- Fred Reading (Fred Hoen), 27×30″ 1929
- Howard Lathrop or A Portsmouth Fisherman, 32×40″ c.1937
- Kenneth Hill, 36×36″ 1937
- Les Copains (Russell Cheney and H.P. Putnam in Cassis), 38×51″ 1923
- Les Enfants Pendus (“Hung-up Children”), 65×76.5″ 1927
- Louis K. Hyde, 1928
- William Munroe, 1927
- Nelson Cantave
- Dorothy Cheney in WW I Nurse’s Uniform, 49×23″ 1926
- Girl on Chair Reading, 16×13″ undated
- Mrs. Clifford Cheney or Homestead, 36×30″ 1919
- Mrs. Marcia Clarke, 1928-29
- Mrs. Maxwell Evarts Foster, by 1928
- Mrs. Nicholas Biddle Jr., 1928
- Mrs. Sanil S. Duryee, undated
- The Book, 16×13″ by 1914
- Untitled (Grumpy woman with hat), undated