Art

Two Greyhounds and a Mastiff belonging to the Duke of Hamilton, Sawrey Gilpin
Two Greyhounds and a Mastiff belonging to the Duke of Hamilton, Sawrey Gilpin

Stubbs & Gilpin – This Time, on Dogs

Thank goodness so many 18th century portraits of beloved thoroughbreds and hunting dogs are adequately…
Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms

Sawrey Gilpin

It’s likely you have a greater inkling of British equine horse artist George Stubbs (1724–1806)…
John Swan, "Rangeley Boat"

John Swan

John Swan’s art often pays tribute to the world’s most beautiful fishing landscapes, from the…
Canvasbacks
Canvasbacks

Rediscovering Francis Lee Jaques:  Part I

I knew nothing of museum artist, illustrator, and painter Francis Lee Jaques (1887–1969).  It was…
Bison: Jaques illustrated his wife’s book, "Snowshoe Country."

Francis Lee Jaques in Black & White: Part II

Few artists can create a landscape not only on the flat surface of the canvas,…
Hold Hare: Hello! My good man! How much for your hare? Four francs? I will give you five francs, but hold it up like that so I can shoot it.”

Honoré Daumier on Anglers and Huntsmen

For reasons I will never quite understand, my charming 26-year-old Florida niece set her heart…
"Growling Lions" is one of 500 Kuhnert paintings of lion.

In Love Again, with Kuhnert

Each time we return to Tanzania – from 1994, when we were tasked with building…
A Delft boar’s head terrine from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Terrines, Tureens, and Strasbourg

Over the years, I accumulated an indecent number of game-themed lidded earthenware pots, also called…
icebergs painting
The Icebergs (1861)

Niagara Falls to the Andes, With Frederic Church

American songwriter Marc Cohn, of “Walking in Memphis” fame, is likely the only singer/songwriter ever…
The only print left on Wieland’s wall is a caribou by Douglas Allen. Allen was a commercial artist, commissioned to provide art work for Jack O’Connor’s 1960 book "Big Game Animals of North America." As a full-page color plate in that book, this painting ignited Wieland’s love affair with caribou.

Art for a Buck’s Sake

The very first magazine article I ever wrote was about hunting caribou in Quebec; the…
John Woototon
In 1715, Wootton painted "Bonny Black Held by a Groom" at Newmarket for 2nd Duke of Rutland’s Belvoir Castle.

John Wootton

Few circumstances are more frustrating than reading about an interesting, even historically important, painting and…
"Among the Sierra Nevada Montains" – Albert Bierstadt

On the Road With the Unstoppable Albert Bierstadt

As a kid growing up in Manhattan, I went to nursery school down the street…