Sporting Arts
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…
Renaissance Robotic Art – A Mechanical Galleon and Clock
It’s likely my fascination with “automata,” or automatons, dates back to a New York City…
David Shepherd: And There Were Also Trains
Artist David Shepherd (1931–2017) once said that he was attracted to all things “jumbo,” from…
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…Gray's Sporting Properties
