Sporting Arts
Cranach the Elder’s Confusing Hunt Scenes
Until you read it, study it, or figure it out yourself: You are not losing…
Who Is Chardin?
by Brooke Chilvers Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) is one of those 18th century French artists whose name always…
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…Gray's Sporting Properties
