Ford Riley’s goal is not just to paint what he sees while hunting and fishing — he wants to take you there, mind and soul. Almost all of Riley’s paintings are inspired from his daily outings in the woods and on the water near his home along the St....
For many years after Goodwin’s death, he was largely ignored in art circles. His “real” specialty,” he told a friend, was painting “hunting scenes with action” for sporting goods calendars. Yet wildlife, hunting, fishing, and...
“The subject of my art is a look, not a story.” If Eldridge Hardie had his druthers, this would be among the shortest articles ever written. It’s not a matter of being publicity-shy, or of wanting to cultivate a certain “arty” image, or...
Unlike many artists, Carl Rungius had been fully appreciated during his lifetime. On a winter day in 1913, Carl Rungius was alone in his studio on West 42nd Street, at work on a painting of a bull moose. There was a knock on the door. The artist was not expecting...
When it comes to portraying animals in motion, many wildlife art experts agree that Schatz has few peers — if any. He is among western Europe’s most renowned wildlife artists. His paintings, some of which sell for as much as $40,000, have been displayed in...
Roland Clark’s love of excellence extended beyond duck portraiture. More than other hunters, waterfowlers are men sustained by memory and promise. In the icy silence of the marsh, when a world of water and sky hangs suspended between darkness and daylight, a man...
“I don’t deliberately try to make my paintings look different from other people’s, but maybe one of the reasons they do is because I don’t consciously imitate anyone artist’s approach.” Assuming that you buy Mark Susinno’s...
Bob Bertram is somewhat of an a typical success story — a man who is surprisingly talented at more than one calling. Bob Bertram has come a long way since cut school; he studied fine art and commercial illustration at Murray State University, class of 1984. But today...
“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...
The most profound influence on color, of course, is light. Without it, a prism is little more than a chunk of glass. Northern tribes like the Inuit have many words to describe what most of us simply call “snow.” The irony of such a vocabulary lapse — one...
