Your favorite waterfowl artist?
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Derek Bendell
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I like that one cause it illustrates a typical scenario when you pick up, unload the guns or go take a leak the birds come right in out of nowhere. Obviously in weather like that you don't see anything coming in the distance. Very cool.
Being from MN I like Kouba, Hautman Bros, and Bruce Miller. Bob White always has some good stuff printed in DU Magazine. Ding Darling was very good. There's a lot of good stuff with their own styles from different times and places.
Being from MN I like Kouba, Hautman Bros, and Bruce Miller. Bob White always has some good stuff printed in DU Magazine. Ding Darling was very good. There's a lot of good stuff with their own styles from different times and places.
Derek Bendell
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Looking again perhaps the guys hadn't even got into the blind yet. Either way great waterfowl hunting picture...
TimJ
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Chet Reneson probably catches the feel the bestl. Bob White does some great paintings covering all outdoor subject, he seems like a really nice guy also. I also like a less known guy named Larry Seiler. I do like Les Kouba, his paintings remind me of classic outdoor magazines.
Most of the ones I like are not the detail driven young guys that are painting now, and winning stamp contests. Nothing wrong with that but not my thing.
Tim
Most of the ones I like are not the detail driven young guys that are painting now, and winning stamp contests. Nothing wrong with that but not my thing.
Tim
Rich Ronning
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I like the Reneson picture and also have it. Also have and really like the Kouba "Ahead of the Big Storm" depicting waves of divers and the dark clouds coming in. The Big Storm was, of course, the infamous Armistice Day blizzard when a number of duck hunters lost their lives in the blizzard. For divers, and particularlly Cans, tough to beat Jim Meger prints.
+1 on Ding Darling. Best conservation-related cartoons ever.
For favorite waterfowl artist, though, I'll take Winslow Homer and the picture in my avatar.
I do a hunt or two a year within half a mile of Winslow's studio, and I'm still waiting for a double on whistlers from the spot where I think he painted this.
For a better resolution of the picture, look here.
I've never seen the original. I've twice been in DC and stopped at the National Gallery of Art, but it's been out on loan to other museums each time. Last summer the Portland Museum of Art did a big Winslow Homer show and had most of his late paintings. They had a photo of this painting and the gallery catalog had a lot of discussion of it, but they weren't able to actually get the picture. There's another DC trip in my future to see it "live".
For favorite waterfowl artist, though, I'll take Winslow Homer and the picture in my avatar.
I do a hunt or two a year within half a mile of Winslow's studio, and I'm still waiting for a double on whistlers from the spot where I think he painted this.
For a better resolution of the picture, look here.
I've never seen the original. I've twice been in DC and stopped at the National Gallery of Art, but it's been out on loan to other museums each time. Last summer the Portland Museum of Art did a big Winslow Homer show and had most of his late paintings. They had a photo of this painting and the gallery catalog had a lot of discussion of it, but they weren't able to actually get the picture. There's another DC trip in my future to see it "live".
Vince Pagliaroli
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Favorites? Reneson, Hagerbaumer, Thomas Aquinas Daly - great painters, that also made made very good gunning decoys. Jim Schmiedlin a great decoy carver, and a very good flat artist as well.
Roy Mason, William Redd Taylor, Michael Sieve, and over my paint table, the "Season of '37" by Dennis Minor. Those are some of the contemporaries, don't get me started on the Old Masters....
Roy Mason, William Redd Taylor, Michael Sieve, and over my paint table, the "Season of '37" by Dennis Minor. Those are some of the contemporaries, don't get me started on the Old Masters....
Mike Sheppard
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As a boy I wore out a copy of waterfowl in iowa, illustrated by maynard reece.
The first print I purchased was a maynard reece canvasback print purchased at auction from the estate of an local duck hunter.
still my favorite.
The first print I purchased was a maynard reece canvasback print purchased at auction from the estate of an local duck hunter.
still my favorite.
Steve Sanford
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Lots of fine artists out there - and I enjoy many of the names already mentioned. It usually comes down to individual works that speak to me. Some in my "personal pantheon" are:
Audubon
Winslow Homer
Roland Clark
Frank Benson
A. B. Frost
Peter Scott
Bob Hines
Don Eckleberry
Here's one from Bruno Liljefors I particularly like:
Thomas Eakins certainly captures the anticipation and concentration in "Whistling for Plover":
The one that NAILS my many days of gunning on Long Island is Bob Kuhn's "The Brant are Back":
The Shelburne Museum (south of Burlington, VT) has lots of Ogden Pleissner as well as much of Joel Barber's decoy collection:
All the best,
SJS
Audubon
Winslow Homer
Roland Clark
Frank Benson
A. B. Frost
Peter Scott
Bob Hines
Don Eckleberry
Here's one from Bruno Liljefors I particularly like:
Thomas Eakins certainly captures the anticipation and concentration in "Whistling for Plover":
The one that NAILS my many days of gunning on Long Island is Bob Kuhn's "The Brant are Back":
The Shelburne Museum (south of Burlington, VT) has lots of Ogden Pleissner as well as much of Joel Barber's decoy collection:
All the best,
SJS
Funny you mention the Shelburn Museum Steve I'm headed there with my girlfriend this afternoon.
My favorite artist(s) would have to be Micheal Sieve and then the Hautman brothers. They are the detail type stamp winning kind of guys but their use of light and detail catch my eye every time I walk by in in my house.
Eddie
My favorite artist(s) would have to be Micheal Sieve and then the Hautman brothers. They are the detail type stamp winning kind of guys but their use of light and detail catch my eye every time I walk by in in my house.
Eddie
Steve Sanford
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Good morning, Ed~
Another coincidence - I was up at Mississquoi NWR a couple of days ago - saw a beautiful Skunkhead Coot painting by an "Ed Gagne" - any relation????
All the best,
SJS
Another coincidence - I was up at Mississquoi NWR a couple of days ago - saw a beautiful Skunkhead Coot painting by an "Ed Gagne" - any relation????
All the best,
SJS
Steve Sanford
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Rick~
The owner of East Islip Lumber was Brud Skidmore. My Dad had a woodshop there for a few years - and I played many there many times (in the shop pictured) and remember Brud fondly. I still run into his sister "Herbie" every few months. I am currently completing a restoration of a plywood Scooter Brud built (see Skidmore Scooter thread below) - it now belongs to Red Oster:
Wally Willrick was the owner of Islip Hardware. His brother Kenny was a mechanic and lived across Jackson Street from me in East Islip in the 1950s; his son Jay was probably my first friend. I never knew Wally well - he lives in Florida now - but I am told he was a very skilled craftsman with an artist's eye. I imagine Brud and Wally worked together on a series of boats. I think there may have been as many as 3 boats named Broadbill. I have the name plates from the first one - a 16-footer - hanging in my shop. I remember, too, a Broadbill flag (rich yellow with a Broadbill decoy on it) that they would fly from a pole on the cabintop. I have often wondered if it's kicking around anywhere.
All the best,
SJS
The owner of East Islip Lumber was Brud Skidmore. My Dad had a woodshop there for a few years - and I played many there many times (in the shop pictured) and remember Brud fondly. I still run into his sister "Herbie" every few months. I am currently completing a restoration of a plywood Scooter Brud built (see Skidmore Scooter thread below) - it now belongs to Red Oster:
Wally Willrick was the owner of Islip Hardware. His brother Kenny was a mechanic and lived across Jackson Street from me in East Islip in the 1950s; his son Jay was probably my first friend. I never knew Wally well - he lives in Florida now - but I am told he was a very skilled craftsman with an artist's eye. I imagine Brud and Wally worked together on a series of boats. I think there may have been as many as 3 boats named Broadbill. I have the name plates from the first one - a 16-footer - hanging in my shop. I remember, too, a Broadbill flag (rich yellow with a Broadbill decoy on it) that they would fly from a pole on the cabintop. I have often wondered if it's kicking around anywhere.
All the best,
SJS
Colin Fitzpatrick
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Heres 2 that are in my basement that I really like,
"Winter Bluebills" by Chet Reneson
"The Conservationists" by Terry Redlin
"Winter Bluebills" by Chet Reneson
"The Conservationists" by Terry Redlin
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Tom Wall
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Two of my favorites would have ot Winslow Homer and Thomas Quinn. Quinnplayed the retriever games and was quite sucessful. Here is a link to some of his work: http://www.wildlifeart.org/...american-widgeon-21/
Here are two prints I have:
http://www.collectorscovey.com/shelthomquin.html
http://www.collectorscovey.com/blacthomquin4.html
Tom
Here are two prints I have:
http://www.collectorscovey.com/shelthomquin.html
http://www.collectorscovey.com/blacthomquin4.html
Tom
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Tim McEntire
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Reneson certainly puts you into the middle of the action. Did you ever notice in many if not all of Reneson's paintings the pencil drawings still in the print from his initial rough draft ?