art

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…

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…

Qamargah

We refer to the first six of 21 Muslim warrior rulers that dominated large parts…

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…

Five Babes, Five Birds

While my husband recalls his many years hunting lions and buffalo as a professional hunter…

David Shepherd: Before Elephants, There Were Aircraft

David Shepherd’s is a well-rehearsed life in its telling. The same tales oft repeated and…

Barye Bronzes to Visit the NSL&M in Middleburg, Virginia

by Brooke Chilvers I wish I could say the larger-than-life lions in front of Manhattan’s…

Mayan Jaguar Kings – divided we fall…

With all I’ve learned in life, it seems I never knew that by the time…

John Swan

John Swan’s art often pays tribute to the world’s most beautiful fishing landscapes, from the…