by Todd Wilkinson | Mar 17, 2023
In all of art history, never has there been a more venerable emblem of wildlife conservation than the tiny U.S. Federal Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. Invented by an American sportsman during the Dust Bowl to protect habitat for migratory birds, revenue generated...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 7, 2023
Directly across the street from Brittlebank Park, visit the new Sporting Showroom at the re-imagined Charleston Marriott. Peruse the carefully curated exhibitors in a setting that allows for meaningful conversation. Showroom exhibitors include sporting and adventure...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 31, 2023
Go ahead and reserve your raffle tickets! SEWE has some excellent prizes in store — and Sporting Classics is spotlighting a few of them! ***Images link to corresponding page*** SEWE 2023 is kicking off! Get everything in order for your trip and see us there!...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 26, 2023
Sporting Classics will be in attendance at the 2023 Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) this coming February – here’s what you need to get started! Whether you are looking for SEWE’s Brochure, FAQ’s, Raffles, Tickets or Hotels, you can...
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...
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...
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,...
by Martha Hill | Aug 17, 2022
Truly this is Golden’s touch, to give us the moment tinged with feeling…[by] putting his own enthusiasm on paper with sensitivity and style. I am not a fly fisherman, but the experience of standing in a rushing stream casting to trout lurking in deep pools...
by Tom Wharton | Aug 10, 2022
“I want to leave something to the imagination…some mystery in the painting. I want to leave room for a viewer to participate.” Jim Morgan reached over and picked up an old canvas goose decoy, one of several near his paint-spattered easel. His latest...
