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Brett's work is wonderful and as stated, brings back memories of older times and older places.
With Brett's kind permission I used that dove shooting illustration (5th from the top) for the cover picture of Parker Pages Vol. 18, Issue 2, Summer 2011.
To add to the artists already mentioned above, A. Lassell Ripley and Arthur Shilstone come to mind and their work has also been represented as cover pictures on Parker Pages.

Thank you all for the names. I have a lot of research to do. Thanks again!

Adam

adam: while you are researching, also check out james m. sessions.

crazyquik: re spaniel prints..

https://www.google.com/search?q=spaniel+...+spaniel+prints

I'll put in a plug for a friend and former neighbor, Gordon Allen. When Gordo was 20 he illustrated Gene Hill's Mostly Tailfeathers. His work ranges from realistic to impressionistic. By impressionistic, I mean closer in style to Reneson than Pleissner. His etchings are tops. He spends time in Thomasville hunting, sketching or painting. I believe his etchings "On the Wagon" and "Quail Wagon" were done in Thomasville.
http://gordonallenart.com/about
Gil

Nobody likes Phil Lavely?

"Adam Stinson," thank you for sharing the several excellent works of Brett J. Smith. I was unfamiliar with his work until I espied your posting. I like especially the southern plantation quail shooting paintings, and the pheasant and duck hunting oils. I also very much enjoyed the other artistic works posted. It seems to have gotten harder to find such truly fine quality representations of our American shooting sports, which is another reason I am appreciative of your and everyone's postings of preferred artistic works.

Although I avidly collect Victorian and Edwardian Era and even a few modern photographs depicting sporting events and participants, I am exceedingly camera-challenged, as some of my personally photographed entries on this site clearly attest to its correspondents. On the other hand, I also collect oil paintings in the same genre; and when I recently received a catalog from a premiere art gallery located in Fredericksburg, Texas, I was pleased to find a work (60 x 48 inches) by the renowned Wisconsin artist Daniel F. Gerhartz listed, titled "The Journey from a Boy to a Man".

To me, this is an evocative painting, that upon reflection, many here can perhaps self-identify with, and which may also inspire an appreciative viewer to recall a certain transitional time of life and place. As well, further contemplation of the painting may even help inform us why we have later come to visit this particularly dedicated forum. The end-of-day setting, the contemplative boy, the prized cock pheasant, the working family spaniel, and even the trees seem familiar; or just perhaps these things are the way I would like to remember them. Each will see what he wants to see and remember.

Please enjoy Mr. Gerhartz's fine work below:




Best regards,

Edwardian

This print is at minimum for Drew's benefit.
If you have never pass shot prairie chickens, or driven red grouse, you won't quite get it. But there is a moment when the flock has crossed the border from too far, to almost close enough, that if you move they will flair. It's a tense second or so, wherein it seems all eyes of the birds are upon you. And time stands still. Predator and prey.
This print, the only prairie chicken print of it's sort I have ever seen, captures that moment.
When you look at it, you dare not move.

Adam,

I second Robert Abbett as a great painter of hunting scenes. I own one of his, "Shooting The High Field", I believe is the name of it. It is the finest quail hunting scene I have ever seen. But, at the Bray's Island Exposition this past spring I met a Georgia artist that had several scenes I found interesting. But one made me stop in my tracks. Here was a print with my two grandsons shooting doves on a sunflower field. I looked at him and said, you painted my two grandsons. I was choked up so bad I could hardly talk, tears in my eyes.It looks exactly like Jackson and Lane, and it came home with me. It is at the framer now. It is called "Passing It On".

His name is Bucky Bowles. Take a look at Bucky's website. He is really good.

buckybowles.com

SRH

Robert Abbott paints the best dog tails in the business.