An African Portfolio of Art
The continent of Africa has been viewed with a mixture of fear and greed for the past 500 years... “The wild creatures I had come to Africa to see are exhilarating in their multitudes and colors, and I imagined far a time that this glimpse of the earth's morning might...
Suzie Seerey-Lester – Brushstrokes of Grace
For Suzie Seerry-Lester, painting has always been her release; her refuge. The process of painting is what fuels her, not the finished piece. Ever-so-gently, I graze my left index finger across the roseate spoonbill's extended primary feather, as translucent as...
William Harnden Foster
Whether he was shooting grouse or skeet, painting bird dogs or promoting wildlife conservation, William Harnden Foster never wavered in his unrelenting pursuit of perfection. I would like to have known William Harnden Foster — hunted with him, sat in his study talking...
Wayne McLoughlin – Eternally Fleeting Dreams
My life outdoors began as an escape, a way to get away from people, yet now I'm involved in the outdoors because of people — the people I've met there. Over the years, the most common question I've been asked about my painting is "How did your art evolve into such...
Art For The Ages, Through The Gifted
Fine and decorative sporting art can gather up your soul, bringing happiness to you or whoever else might come to own and cherish it. Life is life, and even in the theater of our greatest passion the difference between a laugh and a tear is as capricious as the...
Daniel Smith – Nothing Less Than Magic
In a market increasingly dominated by loose, painterly works that imply rather than show, Daniel Smith is an unreconstructed realist. “Let me show you some real cool sheep,” Daniel Smith says. He rifles through a stack of slides, pushes one of them across the light...
Al Agnew – A Love Indefatigable
"Many people have the basic ability to draw what they see. All children love to draw. It's just that most lose interest in it for whatever reason. But I never did. I fell in love with art and the outdoors when I started fishing the stream by my house as a kid, and...
The Guides: A Collection of Untamed Stories
This book is a collection of stories from guides, outfitters, professional hunters and trappers. These stories are not about the game hunted or the fish caught. They are about everything else a sportsperson experiences in the field: the environment, the weather, the...
Dennis Anderson – Art With Attitude
"Dennis identifies with big, powerful animals; the bold and the dangerous," Smith says. "But he shows you some nuance of them that you've never seen. It's like he knows we have some preconceived notion of what a certain animal is, so he doesn't bother with that." The...
Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole
Drive north from Jackson on Highway 89, into the heart of the National Elk Refuge. If you're alert, if you know it's there and you're looking for it, you might see the museum. On the other hand, you might not, and that's intentional. When my father was stationed in...