Sporting Arts

The Making of a Ken Carlson Painting

For a sick boy stuck in bed for a year recovering from rheumatic fever, the…

On Becoming Ken Carlson

If any number of wildlife artists were born within driving distance of the great museums…

The Order of the Elephant

After a two-year battle with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) over flight cancellations during the Covid era,…

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…