The Art of Clay McGaughy
Paintings by San Antonio’s premier outdoor artist.
Pre-1930 Field & Stream Covers
Beautiful art from long-forgotten issues.
The Poet Laureate of Turkey Hunting
An overview of Tom Kelly’s published work.
The Walk
The following is a tale from Michael Altizer’s book RAMBLINGS—TALES FROM THREE HEMISPHERES about two longtime hunting buddies and one significant dove hunt. With more than 240-pages and 25 chapters this book documents the author's hunting and fishing journeys, from...
An Artist Apart
The type of paintings I most enjoy are the ones where I look and think, 'How did he get away with that and still make it work'? [Years ago,] on a Saturday morning in August, my husband Charlie woke me up to show me an ad in Sporting Classics. Dan Metz was selling the...
The Choice of the Artist
Nine wildlife artists talk about their favorite media — including tools of the trade — that have helped them earn nationwide acclaim. Watercolor by Morten E. Solberg Of all the painting media, watercolor has been around the longest. The first crude paintings on cave...
Marc Hanson Savors the Path
In Marc Hanson's personal hierarchy it will always be fine painting, not subject matter, that takes precedence. There's a painting in Marc Hanson's studio that fans of his art will probably never see. It's a simple piece, really — a winter landscape that is likely...
Ice Hole Angels
Collecting fish decoys has never approached the popularity of some other folk art...but it's started showing up at shows. The big pike was hungry. The very cold temperature had slowed his metabolism, but it had been many days since his last meal. Slowly he moved from...
SC Giclée Print Program
Sporting Classics has teamed up with ten of America’s most renowned wildlife artists to offer these magnificent, limited-edition giclée prints. The giclée (pronounced gee-clay) process incorporates breakthrough technology to create a one-of-a-kind art print from a...
Pleissner A Championship Performance
"Sporting art" is exactly that: art with a sporting theme. “Most sporting art isn't good art...." This statement, strangely enough, was made by Ogden Pleissner, a man widely known for his "sporting art," beautiful renderings of salmon rivers, trout streams, bird...