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Russell Chatham exhibited extraordinary focus and attention to detail. He also wanted to make art that anyone could afford, hoping to sell prints at a Point Reyes gallery that he was close to opening.   David Briggs

Russell Chatham, a record-breaking fly fisherman whose landscape paintings hang in the homes of movie stars and adorn high-end art collections, died on Nov. 10 after a long illness. He was 80 years old.

Russell grew up in Marin, where he cemented his love of painting, fishing, hunting and storytelling at an early age. During his four decades in Livingston, Mont. he owned a restaurant, an art gallery and a publishing company, wrote articles for…