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arthur wardle
Arthur Wardle, A Lion and Lioness Lying in the Grass

Returning Home to Wardle

What joy when I saw my two favorite paintings on this side of the pond,…
Dogs:  A Point of Honor Courtesy of National Sporting Library & Museum

Sculptor Walter Matia Is Coming to Town – Middleburg, VA, That Is

But first we went to Walter’s town. Artist C.D. Clarke had been promising for ages…
Antoine-Louis Barye
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, 1796–1875) "Tom the Algerian Greyhound", ca. 1889 Bronze 7⅞”H × 14 3/16”W × 4”D 20 cm × 36.04 cm × 10.16 cm. Marks: signed at center front: Gift of Mrs. Nelson L. St. Clair Jr. Photo: Travis Fullerton © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

An Exemplary Personal Collection of Barye Bronzes

Virginia thoroughbred breeder Patricia R. St. Clair has donated her museum-quality collection of 30 Barye…
The Refuge Tucker Smith
Tucker Smith, The Refuge, 1994, oil on canvas, 36 x 120 inches, JKM Collection©, National Museum of Wildlife Art (Image cropped to fit)

Tucker Smith’s Painting, The Refuge, Has Taken to the Road

One of the most important paintings in the collection of the National Museum of Wildlife…
elephants drinking bodo meier
Elephants Drinking from the Chobe River

Bodo Meier, the Artist Who Takes Artists to Africa

I first met watercolorist Bodo Meier on a snowy night in the dead of winter,…
Mare and Foals
Mares and Foals

Stopping in Georgia to Meet Larry D. Wheeler

What a great excuse to exit I-95 on our trip back north – going to…
Bison Dance of the Mandan Indians, courtesy of Arader Galleries

Museum Blues

When I was young in Paris and London, there was rarely a crowd at any…
frank benson

An Important New Book on Frank Benson

I first heard about Benson-aficionado John R. Lewis at Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville, Georgia,…
Endless Flats
"Endless Flats"

Catching Up with Eldridge Hardie

I can’t believe a decade has flown by since I first wrote about Eldridge Hardie…
Peggy Watkins, "Honey In The Sun," oil, 12” x 16”, 2005

Sportsman’s Gallery Artists in Residence

Michael Paderewski has invited two “dog artists” as his Artists in Residence – Julie Jeppsen…
Adriano Manocchia
Invitation for Next Summer

Adriano Manocchia

For Adriano Manocchia’s waterfowling and fly fishing still lifes, such as A Trip Up North…

David Maass

David Maass paintings — the art of bringing wildfowl imagery to millions.