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This is a bit off-topic, but you gentlemen offer opinions freely on many things other than double guns so I'm curious as to how many of you are aficionadoes of Sporting art as well as of double guns? Do any of you collect prints or own a couple that grace your library walls? And who are your favorite artists? Since my own pockets are neither deep nor wide (taste may run to Chablis but my budget to root beer) I cannot afford original works, but have managed to accrue some limited ed., signed prints by Ogden Pleissner, Brett Smith, Lassell Ripley along with several others -- and a host of old magazine covers from the 20's, 30's, 40's that are both evocative and beautiful in their own right -- and in many cases by well known artists like Hunt, Foster, Kuhn,Hastings, Watson, etc. These are my poor man's masterpieces, available on-line through E-bay auction or in musty corners of used book stores. In the next life, when I'm rich, infamous and dashing -- but mainly just exorbitantly rich -- I will have an impressive library, comprising three wings: Center wing for the written word: all the Buckinghams, Babcocks, Evans', Spillers, Boothrods, Hills and on ... (perhaps even a McIntosh -- what do you think David T., is he worthy?) all 1st editions, of course, and signed where possible. The left wing reserved for things that go Bang!: Purdeys & Bosses & McKay Browns & Sauers & Francottes & Lefevers, Foxes, Parkers (but not, thank you very much, RBLs). The right wing housing Sporting Art: original oils by Abbett, Hardy, Rosseau, Ripley and Rungius. Watercolors by Pleissner, Reneson, Corbin, Smith, Golden, Shilstone, Shaldach and Lane to name only a few. You have your dream, I'm entitled to mine.
So my question is, who and what graces your walls -- besides Aunt Martha and Poppa John and the triad of graduation photos and the separate category of 4,000 school photos of grand-children?

I like Reneson's watercolors (lithos, of course) he reminds me of Winslow Homer and is very New England-centric.

The modern photo-realists are not my cup of tea.

I also enjoy Pleissner's work, as well as Thomas Daly's.

A little biased, but check out [ mccune-art.com ]. Glen is a renaissance man in the truest sense. Few are able to master paint,wood, and metal and are in the same league. It's wildlife art at its finest. Randy

I'm a big fan of A.B. Frost's sporting work.

English sporting prints make a nice addition to the gun room or den. I enjoy the work of Alken,Heywood-Hardy,Thorburn and Herring There are countless other talented British artists.North American artists not previously mentioned,include,Lynn Bogue Hunt and A.Lassell Ripley, their work is to be seen in many books on wildfowling.

R. Bishop's waterfowl drypoint etchings are wonderful.

Roy Mason also............

I am right along with you on these Will. I especially like Riply as well as Lynn Bogue Hunt. I equally enjoy Frank Stick and Philip Goodwin as well as Hy Watson. I seem to be drawn to many of the illustrators and sport advertising painters of the early 1900's up to WWII.

Happy New Year,

Ed Pirie
West Topsham, Vermont

Ted Blaylock. I have forgotton the name of the artist who paints birds that I like (can't afford his prints anyway) but, his best work is always dead birds. Riply is really good too.
Best,
Ted