by Peter Bergh | Sep 22, 2023
“Sporting art” is exactly that: art with a sporting theme. “Most sporting art isn’t good art….” This statement, strangely enough, was made by Ogden Pleissner, a man widely known for his “sporting art,” beautiful renderings of...
by Gary Dickey | Aug 31, 2023
By definition and design, the calendar marks the passage of time and to an extent sets the tempo for our activities. But the calendar holds particular interest for the outdoor sportsman, the hunter and the collector of sporting art. The calendars of the late 19th and...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jul 17, 2023
Seven famed wildlife artists select their favorite pieces out of their portfolio, and give a little insight as to why. Silence in White – by Ken Carlson My selection of Silence in White was based strictly on the enjoyment I derived from creating this piece. A...
by Todd Wilkinson | Jun 15, 2023
“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...
by Bob Abbett | Jun 15, 2023
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...
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 Scott Bestul | Jun 15, 2022
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...
