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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…

The Unsinkable Rosa Bonheur

French animalier artist and sculptress Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899) is not the only world-famous artist who…

When Rosa Bonheur Met Buffalo Bill 

That Picasso and Matisse knew each other, were even friends and often rivals, seems plausible…

David Shepherd:  And There Were Also Trains

Artist David Shepherd (1931–2017) once said that he was attracted to all things “jumbo,” from…