Lynn Bogue Hunt: Angler, Hunter, Artist
Angler, hunter, and above all artist, Lynn Bogue Hunt was the most popular and prolific outdoor illustrator in mid-20th century America.
Wild!
Just when you think a hunt couldn’t possibly get more dangerous and exciting, something really wild comes along.
Copley’s Sporting Sale 2025
On July 10 and 11, Copley Fine Art Auctions, the nation’s premier decoy and sporting art auction house, will hold its twentieth-annual Sporting Sale, coming after the firm’s record-setting $3-million Winter Sale. This major auction, and its accompanying 300-page,...
The Outdoor Writing Life
It is commonplace for long-established writers, late in their careers, to indulge in some type of retrospective look at their decades of literary endeavor. The word “indulge” is used advisedly, because to some degree virtually every such effort involves cosseting of...
Gertrude the Mason Brant Decoy
Born in a small shop behind William Mason’s home, Gertrude the decoy would live a life most fulfilling. Here are a few of the many stories she has to tell. Hello, my name is Gertrude. I was named after Bob’s Aunt Gertrude Reade, a woman with a special gleam in her...
A Company of Gentlemen Adventurers
The huge beast literally ripped off Pickering’s head.
Russell Chatham: Moods of the American West
It would be very easy – and so much fun – to write about Russell Chatham as a Rabelaisian voluptuary, the kind of man who woke up every morning in a California-king-sized bed surrounded by empty bottles of Chateau Haut-Brion and empty-minded cheerleaders and with only...
Arthur Burdett Frost – The Sportsman’s Artist
A. B. Frost’s paintings captured all the tenseness & humor of sporting situations while retaining the natural characteristics of the hunter & the hunted. Because of the artist’s familiarity with human nature, his love for the sport and the creatures of the...
Zane Grey in Print: A Collector’s Guide
There are many facets, some of them controversial or even contradictory, to Zane Grey’s career: oddball youngster with an overbearing father, exceptionally skilled collegiate baseball player, disillusioned dentist, struggling and often depressed young writer trying to...