Art

I Went to the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville

This wasn’t the first time I’ve traveled far to see a painting—only to discover, when…

SEWE 2024:  Been There!

You have to understand that I lived in Charleston—Isle of Palms, to be exact—in 1976. …

Apokalupsis – An Uncovering:  The Morris Museum Exhibition

Artist Joseph H. Sulkowski considers the works in his interactive, multi-media traveling exhibition, Apokalupsis –…

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…

‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving 2023

Thanksgiving 2022 in Illinois, with our traditional group of revelers who convened there most years,…

Peter Hofer’s “Jaguar” Double in .500 Nitro Express

In 1984, a handsome French professional hunter invited me to a remote town on the…

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…