Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life
If any art is truly timeless, it is the still-life. The still-life does not depict a moment frozen in time, a chosen instant snatched from the temporal current, but a moment outside of time, beyond its erosive reach. There is no past or future, only an eternal...
The Bear and Lion Man
Lily has been viewed both as a legendary hunter and a shameless poacher. In 1908 residents of Coahuila, Mexico, lived in fear of a large male grizzly that had laid claim to a stretch of road leading into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Vaqueros in the region avoided...
Portraits From the Deep – Guy Harvey
When I first set out to photograph these splendid creatures in their natural element, I realized the need to develop my own special methods. My heart was racing, my eyes wide in anticipation as the cloud of bubbles cleared... and there it was, silhouetted against the...
Tigers In the Surf
Angry breakers guarded the Devil's Elbow of Padre Island's wild and remote beaches. Watch out, others had warned us, or the surf will eat you alive. Billy Sandifer, a three-tour veteran of Vietnam and now a surf-fishing guide, faced the roaring whitecaps and didn't...
The Cameron House
As Mike explained who he was and pointed up the hill to our home, the woman then exclaimed “oh, you live with Cameron!” I have written several times in the past about how dogs have plans to move in and take over your house and life — just as I have done at Mike’s...
William Cornwallis Harris – Africa’s Audubon
Though engaging as a literary craftsman, Harris is even more appealing as an artist. The game-rich veld of southern Africa was his studio; lions, elephants, and even a now extinct species of wild horse were his subjects. Although he would spend less than a year...
Artist of the Adirondacks – A.F. Tait
Tait worked hard at his craft, his sketches, his technique. It was this essential labor that helped him, when his imagination called, rise to the occasion. American landscape and genre painting of the late 19th century, in which Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait excelled, is...
The Lunatic Express
The gruesome exploits of the maneaters, together with those of Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Patterson...form one of the most fantastic tales in the annals of African adventure. In the 1890s Britain's far-flung empire covered a quarter of the globe, including a number...
The Romance of Brandywine
The men and women who studied under Howard Pyle all but dominated American illustration during the first half of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, Howard Pyle of Wilmington, Delaware, was most popular illustrator in America. He had only one...
The Whisper in the Grey of Morning
“I Knew your son. Something I been needing to tell you . . . Luke saved me — you know, saved my life. He saved us all.” America had been attacked with a murderous sucker punch. That day of infamy stirring the deep soul of a patriotic nation.Lines of young men eager...