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here is Troy's(Big Sky) speed goat pic i have framed.....dont have a pic of the mulie but can get one tonight....

It's always nice to see one's name mentioned in a positive light and especially with so many other names that I have so much respect for. Rattler the picture turned out nice. Did you do all the matting and framing yourself?

I'm a big Bateman and Parson fan myself. Both have had a lot of influence on me as an artist. However they are master's of their mediums with Bateman being a great acrylic artist and Parson doing most of his work in oil paint. I went a different direction with graphite, though I must admit a series of black and white drawings by Leon Parson is what influenced me that direction 20 years ago. I have never met Robert Bateman, but I have had the priviledge of standing in Leon's studio and talking with him fact to face. I have also been in his brother's home, Dale Parson, who is also an outstanding artist. As for me, I haven't done a whole lot new. I have kind'a shifted from animals with horns and antlers, to prdators, with the drawing below being my latest limited edition print.

Misty Morning Coyote


Here is one of the last antlered big game animal drawings I did before switching to predators. This one is only available as an original though.

Power Struggle

Cool Stuff Big Sky, nice work.

Carl Rungius, Bob Kuhn, Luke Frazier would top my list for wildlife art... not my favorite genre, but these guys are as good as it gets.

I like Kouba, Redlin and Kasper and of course Charlie

Dober

Dober, never thought of Charlie as a wildlife artist but that's just me.

I have some Luke Frazier and Rungius prints around the house, as well as a couple originals by a good South African artist named Kevin Thomas, and even a couple of nice original drawings by Ingwe!

Some of Monte Dolack is OK too, though not strictly wildlife. I have a Big Hole grayling print of his that I'm really fond of.

My avatar is wildlife art!

http://www.joshuaspies.com/images/a-muleDeerBig.jpg

I've been picture framing for the past 21 years. There certainly has been a steep drop off in the interest in wildlife art. Its not just because of the two recessions either. The present generation hasn't grown up with the exposure to hunting/fishing and there is a commensurate drop in wildlife art as well.
I rememember a RMEF banquet in the early 90's that I framed 71 prints. Now, you are lucky to have 15 framed.
Federal Duck Stamps and their prints are almost worthless in my area. You can hardly get your initial outlay back in resale.
It may cycle back but not in the foreseeable future I'm afraid.

Interesting, I need to get a link for my employers FIL... The guy has prints I believe that have gone for an easy $5000+ so I'm told.

I'll see what I can do..

Anyone have any of John C. Green's work (Madison, SD)? I like his late father's work a little better (Larry Green). Josh Spies' work has been getting better and better over the years, pretty darned good. Next state over, some of Rosemary Millette's work really grabs me.

There's a side of me that like Dolak as well and Zabel also.

Dober

Hey it's all in our own minds and how we see it but Charlies "Exaulted Ruler" is one nice piece as far as I'm concerned. The elk is nice but I always liked the Sharpie in it as well.

For 15 years I got to help cater a big event at the CM Russell museum that kicked off the art auction and there was a bit of his stuff that I really dug.

However you have to keep in mind that Shultz is one of my favs as well...<g>

Dober

When I started this thread, I was interested in hearing about any kind of art that would appeal to outdoors people, including scupture and even photography. Perhaps that is how I should have titled it. Any of the different kinds of art that have been mentioned here that do not strictly fir the definition "wildlife art" have certainly added to the discussion, not detracted from it.

Fred

JB, if you don't mind me asking, which of Carl Rungius' prints do you have?

I have quite a few Ed Tussey prints. Check them out if you like Alaskan art. Ed Tussey

For anyone that cares, there is a huge western/wildlife art show in Prescott Memorial weekend. It's invitation only for the artist so the quality is there.

Hummingbird Hangout by Judy Schrader Jan. 06 Pa. Game News cover.

My newest. Looking for a frame in barn siding.

HuntKY,

I have "Moose In The Woods" and "Caribou On Winter Range."

I like the way he did pronghorns, too. Another one I like is his bison painting, "The Last Of The Herd." I tend to prefer the more spare Rungius paintings, with fewer animals and more landscape.

The prints on my walls aren't strictly wildlife, either. One of my favorites is of a painting done by an Inuit artist that I picked up on a trip to the Northwest Territories some years ago. It shows an Inuit woman holding one of her children while sitting next to a campfire on a beach, during an Arctic summer sunset.

To tell the truth, I'm not real crazy about a lot of recent wildlife art, because of the phony representations of out-sized antlers, which of course is an outgrowth of the obsession with "book" animals.

One of my problems is where to put anything, because of all the dead animal parts in the house. Even table and cabinet tops are pretty full of skulls, containers full of game-bird feathers and African porcupine quills, hand-carved decoys and the odd wood or bronze sculpture. The truth is the house is too cluttered.

Can't believe Ken Carlson's name hasn't come up yet. He was a protege of Kuhn. Here are a few of his.....







He also did my avatar, just for me of course : )