Tales From Three Hemispheres
Ramblings: Tales From Three Hemispheres features 240-pages and over 180 black-and-white photographs that richly document Michael Altizer's contemplative and intimately composed accounts of his hunting and fishing journeys, from Patagonia to Alaska—along with the guns,...
The Bronze Age of Mike Barlow
Some kids are suited for learning in a classroom, for others education begins when they leave. For six-year-old Mike Barlow, paging through his father’s extensive collection of art books on African wildlife awakened a muse that would lead to his life’s work, and an...
Deep Feelings
In many ways John Hamberger was more an impressionistic artist than a painter of fish portraits. On the vintage plaster of the kitchen wall, left of the table where winter window light refracts through a collection of old pop bottles, is taped a snapshot of a man...
The Book That Humbled Hemingway
When Hemingway read this book, he said: "She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [Markham] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book."...
Beyond the Boundaries
"But there was something there — a different kind of contemporary realism." Imagine for a moment that you and I are with artist Adriano Manocchia, relaxing on Adirondack chairs under the eave of the porch at his house in Cambridge, New York, a double haul from the...
Son of the South
Son of the South:Reminiscences of a Southern Sportsman follows the life of one of North Carolina's most outstanding hunters and fishermen-conservationists Bob Gordon. At 82, the stories of his hunting adventures in North Carolina and way beyond take shape in a sort of...
African Elephant Hair Bracelets
Designed after the original African Elephant Hair Bracelets dating back over 1200 years it was believed that wearing these bracelets would protect against harm, sickness, and misfortune. The four knots symbolizes the powerful forces of life: the sun, wind, fire, and...
Walk Your Way Through the Colors
Mike Stidham, the critically acclaimed, self-taught artist, paints fishscapes. One summer evening a year ago, Mike Stidham left his studio and drove a few miles to a heavily fished stretch of the Provo River where it spills out of the Wasatch Mountains through the...
Mother’s Day Gifts 2022
There’s a lot of pressure on us all when it comes to Mother’s Day gift ideas. You want to find something she’ll use all the time, but it can’t be strictly utilitarian. It should also have a sentimental spin. But overthinking it only makes the whole process harder. So...
The Art Of Mort Künstler
In this post-modernist era when so much fine art is obscure, experimental and non-representational, Künstler arguably represents a touchstone You’ve just humped up a steep knoll trailing a wounded elk, or maybe you have designs on glassing mountain goats. Fatigued,...