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...
Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life

Ever Ancient Ever New: The Still-Life

If any art is truly timeless, it is the still-life. The still-life does not depict a moment frozen in time, a chosen instant snatched from the temporal current, but a moment outside of time, beyond its erosive reach. There is no past or future, only an eternal...
Firmo Fracassi – Renaissance Man

Firmo Fracassi – Renaissance Man

Using only simple tools, Italy’s Firmo Fracassi achieves astonishing detail in his bulino-style engravings. If suffering is a muse for artistic genius, it came early in the life of Firmo Fracassi. Born in 1939 in Tavernole, a village nestled in Italy’s...
In the Light

In the Light

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...