by Todd Wilkinson | Nov 10, 2021
Tour featuring major retrospective of Wyoming’s Tucker Smith ends January 2, 2022. One enduring memory I have is of a silhouetted figure, the outline of a cowboy hat, the rangy gesture of a man, hand extended, holding what appeared to be a magic wand, reaching toward...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Nov 5, 2021
The Florida Fish Art Contest uses art, science, and creative writing to foster connections to the outdoors and inspire the next generation of stewards. The Florida Fish Art Contest was inspired in 1997 by a 5th grader’s homework assignment and has grown into an...
by Todd Wilkinson | Oct 28, 2021
The Landing of a Wildlife Masterwork Once Belonging to T. Boone Pickens Now Available for the Public to Savor. This is Bob Kuhn’s elusive tiger. Our eyes are drawn first inexorably to the carnivore paused peacefully in the aftermath of a kill. There is something...
by Todd Wilkinson | Oct 22, 2021
Painter Rod Crossman, considered one of the greatest sporting artists of our time, connects us to holy outdoor places that span generations. This is how we are transported into the wildlight. Think about your greatest fishing memory, the one that, like a fine...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 11, 2021
Tickets will go on sale October 9th for SEWE 2022, which will be held February 17-20 After canceling its event in 2021, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, will return next year to celebrate 40 years in 2022, February 17 – 20...
by Ted Schnack | Sep 28, 2021
Ted Schnack discusses his sculpture inspired by Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea Literary Immortality. Countless writers and artists have graced the centuries, yet few and rare are those who create works so powerful they are considered true classic. True...
by Todd Wilkinson | Sep 27, 2021
For a “sporting artist” could there be a name more fitting than Bob White? I will answer the question for you. Obviously, the correct response is: “No, there could not.” It isn’t as if this modern fine art painter and illustrator who lives near the St. Croix River in...
by Todd Wilkinson | Sep 23, 2021
In any great wildlife painting, viewers do not just feel the spirit of an animal, we’re making contact with the mind’s eye of a brilliant artist. Julie T. Chapman, in her acclaimed multi-media scenes and monochromatic scratchboards, demonstrates how a single image can...
by Todd Wilkinson | Sep 21, 2021
Why do hunters seldom put antlers of average score on the wall? An absurd question, certainly, for readers of this great magazine. And yet while the reasons seem obvious, let’s apply the same rationale to works of fine art we collect. Why settle for paintings and...
by Stephen Irwin, M.D. | Sep 17, 2021
Mention the golden age of sporting art, 1890 to 1930, and immediately we think of the beautiful calendars, broadsides and magazine illustrations produced by a group of American artists who will probably never be surpassed. The best of them did advertising work...
