Art

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…
"Growling Lions" is one of 500 Kuhnert paintings of lion.

In Love Again, with Kuhnert

Each time we return to Tanzania – from 1994, when we were tasked with building…
A Delft boar’s head terrine from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Terrines, Tureens, and Strasbourg

Over the years, I accumulated an indecent number of game-themed lidded earthenware pots, also called…
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…
The only print left on Wieland’s wall is a caribou by Douglas Allen. Allen was a commercial artist, commissioned to provide art work for Jack O’Connor’s 1960 book "Big Game Animals of North America." As a full-page color plate in that book, this painting ignited Wieland’s love affair with caribou.

Art for a Buck’s Sake

The very first magazine article I ever wrote was about hunting caribou in Quebec; the…
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…
Big Five by Grant Hacking

On Safari with Grant Hacking

I wish I’d collected the T-shirts I’ve seen over the years of Africa’s Big Five…
autumn setter pasqua
"Autumn Setter"

Lou Pasqua

The meticulously conserved furnished rooms and artwork in the Elisabeth Ireland Poe Gallery at Pebble…
L’Asperge (1880) or A Sprig of Asparagus by Édouard Manet.

Spring Means Asparagus

As a child in the 1950s, I did not grow up with fresh asparagus. Or fresh…
dog painting
The three hounds in the “Apokalupsis” mural represent Love, Beauty and Joy.

Joseph Sulkowski: Transforming a Painting Into a Sculpture

As the wife of a professional hunter, editor for many years of African Hunting Gazette,…
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…