Sporting Arts
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…
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…
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…
Shikar: Royal Hunts of the Mughal Empire. In Miniature
Copenhagen is home to several wonderful smaller museums that started as the private collections of…
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…Gray's Sporting Properties
