by John T. Ordeman | Nov 18, 2022
Derrydale. To American sportsmen the name brings to mind handsome, leather-bound, strikingly illustrated books and prints that convey the essence of the sporting experience. Eugene V. Connett III founded The Derrydale Press in 1926, “to produce a group of books on...
by Janet Paulson | Nov 4, 2022
And “charged” with life is exactly what he means. Incredibly, he has had no formal art training, yet he is considered by many to be among the world’s best wildlife artists. He considers himself a cultural orphan, whose life experiences span three continents and...
by John Ross | Oct 28, 2022
It’s only natural that Greg Beecham should feel as he does. His dad, Tom Beecham…drilled drawing into him before the youngsters years had reached his teens. Greg Beecham’s dusty brown felt hat rides high on his forehead, the way a cowboy sits straight on his horse....
by Ken Kirkeby | Oct 14, 2022
As both sportsman and art lover, my walls battle for either mounted heads or country scenes. Oddly, though, I own no wildlife art. Before visiting John Schoenherr I wasn’t sure why. Now I am. Over the years, most wildlife has seemed partisan to me, as though the...
by Ken Kirkeby | Oct 7, 2022
“You don’t decide on a style…you do the work and a style evolves.” Over the years, I have had the luck to interview some very talented wildlife artists. A number actually hunted, others did not. In the work of those that did, I discovered another quality, a sincerity...
by Todd Wilkinson | Sep 30, 2022
For Joshua Spies, it’s about payback. Across the lonesome, windblown prairie of northern mid-America, locals know him simply as “the kid.” On this morning, the prodigal artistic son of Watertown, South Dakota, stands in his studio surrounded by six easel paintings,...
by Chuck Wechsler | Sep 16, 2022
To elicit thoughtful reflection … to trigger an emotional response, these are the things McKissick seeks in his art. Of course you can’t always tell a book by its cover — nor a painter by his paintings. Take Randall McKissick, for example. With just a casual glance,...
by Scott Bestul | Sep 9, 2022
“I decided awhile back that I wouldn’t paint any animal unless I’d seen it first.” It’s a dangerous trap to fall into, but I’d formed quite a few impressions about Michael Sieve through his paintings long before I ever met him. You hear public figures complaining...
by Chuck Wechsler | Sep 7, 2022
The artistic legacy of Wilhelm Kuhnert, abridged by the first Great War and almost devastated by the second, is known to but a few wildlife art enthusiasts. On April 30, 1906, Wilhelm Kuhnert and his expedition of 80 porters were encamped along a wide river, less than...
by Carol Sinclair Smith | Aug 26, 2022
Harris-Ching is one of the handful of artists who advanced the position of wildlife painting into a serious artistic genre. The ground is tinder dry, the air is suffocating — infuriatingly unlike air — more like the fug under a woolen blanket. Under the midday sun,...
