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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…
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…
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…
autumn setter pasqua
"Autumn Setter"

Lou Pasqua

The meticulously conserved furnished rooms and artwork in the Elisabeth Ireland Poe Gallery at Pebble…
bird illustrations
The illustrations in Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico (1973) are considered Peterson’s best.

Roger Tory Peterson – the Book, the Man, His Wives

It all began in 1976, after my high-school-sweetheart husband dumped me for a friend of…
"The Long Cast," watercolor by Arthur Shilstone.

Congressional Gold Medals for Arthur Shilstone’s WWII Unit

If only well-known watercolor artist and sportsman Arthur Shilstone (1922-2020) were still alive!