Art

24 Hours — OK, 48

We’d been gone from our cozy cottage in France for more than six months and…

Tafelspitz and Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow

The recent lifting of requirements for COVID-19 testing prior to travel to France, for fully…

Teddy Roosevelt and Gaston Phébus

I was raised in the school of fair-chase hunting by several professional hunters, including my…

In My Mind, I Am Fishing

I settled on visiting the Sportsman’s Gallery online – they are actually located on King…

Congressional Gold Medals for Arthur Shilstone’s WWII Unit

If only well-known watercolor artist and sportsman Arthur Shilstone (1922-2020) were still alive!

In Praise of the Sardine

When my darling niece and her sweetheart’s family begged us to take them on safari,…

What Is Sporting Art?

In 2021, the former Friends of British Sporting Art, of which I was a member,…

All I Want (to give) for Christmas

When I remarked to my adult niece that the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) in the…

Tracking Down Frank Stick on the Outer Banks

If, in 1977, I was the leader of our first quest together – sighting red-cockaded…

Terry Mathews’s Elephant – a Football Icon

by Brooke Chilvers You haven’t lived if you haven’t been to a Durty Nelly’s Irish…

Tracking Tigers in Life and in Art

The first tiger in my life was Shere Khan, the “chief among tigers” in Rudyard…

What’s in a Name?

I miss bookstores. Not mall bookstores with 50 shades of the same thing, but independent…