Michael Sieve – Hunter’s Eyes Artist’s Hands

Michael Sieve – Hunter’s Eyes Artist’s Hands

“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...
Wilhelm Kuhnert – Rediscovering an Artist

Wilhelm Kuhnert – Rediscovering an Artist

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...
Raymond Harris-Ching Thrilled By the Sight

Raymond Harris-Ching Thrilled By the Sight

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,...
Francis Golden – That Golden Touch

Francis Golden – That Golden Touch

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...
Wild Impressions

Wild Impressions

“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...
New! Argentina Wingshooting Past and Present

New! Argentina Wingshooting Past and Present

This lavishly illustrated book documents the best of Stuart Williams’ 40-year love affair with bird-hunting in Argentina. Stuart was preceded only by Hollywood actor Robert Taylor as one of hundreds of American sportsmen who have discovered the incredible, high-volume...