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Jean Siméon Chardin – Who He Is Not

Picture in your mind the artwork you associate with the Château de Versailles during the…

The Making of a Ken Carlson Painting

For a sick boy stuck in bed for a year recovering from rheumatic fever, the…

On Becoming Ken Carlson

If any number of wildlife artists were born within driving distance of the great museums…

Adieu to an Artist:  Bodo Meier

It’s terrible when a journeyman actor, after decades of hard work, suddenly snatches the perfect…

A Guide to Stanley Meltzoff’s Gamefish 

When illustrator Stanley Meltzoff (1917-2006) was forced by changes in the 1960s publishing industry to…

The Making of Stanley Meltzoff – Part I

Saltwater gamefish artist Stanley Meltzoff  (1917-2006), the inventor of piscatorial underwater oceanic vistas, turned to…

The Color-Blind Artist, A.B. Frost

by Brooke Chilvers The innate inklings of art that swirled in the blood of American…

Collecting the Sporting Prints of A.B. Frost

Almost one hundred years after the death of artist Arthur Burdett (A.B.) Frost (1851–1928), sportsmen…

The Roy Mason Effect on Sporting Art

It feels wonderful to be washed over by Enlightenment, when the pieces of a kaleidoscopic…

On Safari with Wilhelm Kuhnert in Middleburg, Virginia 

If only I had known that, in the dead of winter 2018/2019, there was a…

Carl Rungius, One of the “Big Four,” at the NSLM, Middleburg, Virginia

More than a dozen years ago, I was on the trail of the German-born American…

The Ever-Disappearing Roy M. Mason

I can think of no sadder words for an artist, whether living or dead, in…