Who's your favorite wildlife artist?

Rick Kyte

Rick Kyte

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My favorite for some time has been Chet Renesen.

And I'm always happy to spend time in front of a Winslow Homer.

Just curious to hear who you guys like.

Rick
 
For inshore & offshore prints, Don Ray hands down.
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Capt Steve Witlock & his pencil drawings & chart art.
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For scenic type isalnd stuff Trip Harrison.
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Can't leave out Jason Mathis, he's also become one of my new favorites!!!
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When it comes to prints, unless they remind me of a place I've hunted, fished or dove on, they don't even go up on the wall of the lodge.
 
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Well Chet is a very good one. I'd add Bob White, Dave Hagerbaumer, Les Kouba and Ogden Pleissner as ones I can think of right now that I enjoy to look at. I'm not really into the highly detailed stuff some of the newer guys are doing but it's nice to see too.
For something a little different and not duck related I really like the fish carvings by Ellen McCaleb.

Tim
 
I'm a big fan of Chet Reneson and Less Kouba. I have prints from both of them. I really love the un-detailed look of the water colors. Since I draw with graphite my favorte pencil artist is Cole Johnson. Check out his website at colejohnsonart.com his work is unbelievable................Kevin
 
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John C. Green and Terry Redlin. Both from South Dakota. But I can stare at my Chet any day of the year.
 
I like Dave Hagerbaumer..have one of his prints. I also like Brett Smith, Chet Reneson...just miss out on one of his prints BLAST IT! Can't forget Les Kouba.

Zane
 
I have several from Dave Bollman (Michigan), Michael Monroe (Michigan), Bill Rose (Michigan), Rob Leslie, Keith Mueller...among others I can't recall at the moment.
Lou
 
Cole Johnson's work is amazing Rick. I spoke with him through e-mail last year and he told me that he gets that foggy look by brushing loose graphite on the paper. I've tried it and it's very difficult to do. I have much respect for his talent........................Happy Holidays, Kevin
 
Hard to beat Winslow Homer. His "Right and Left" is a gorgeous oil of a pair of goldeneyes over a sand dune. I grew up in the next town from his studio in Prout's Neck, Maine, and I like to think I know where he was shooting when he conceived this picture. The salt marsh 1/2 mile inland from his studio is a still a reliable spot for blacks and goldeneyes for me.

http://www.nga.gov/collection/rightandleft.shtm

His paintings of brook trout and landlocked salmon in the Adirondacks and Quebec may be the best I've seen.
 
I forgot Fuertes. I can go to this site and look at his sketches for hours. I wish they had some better pictures of his finished works. He is sort of a more 'modern' looking Audubon. Audubon is good to, I can remember that as a kid I would often look through a big game book we had that was illustrated with JJA's paintings.
 
Has anyone ever seen much of Al Hochbaum's art? He was the founding director of Delta Waterfowl Research Station, an excellent waterfowl biologist and artist.

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I had not seen any of Hochbaum's art until I read his books. He must have been an amazing guy - biologist, hunter, artist, writer.

Les Kouba is my all time favorite.

Canvasbacks in Heavy Snow
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David Maaas. Grew up in Rochester MN so many of his paintings are done around the area we have hunted for many decades. I don't know if anyone would consider him a top notch artist (I do but what do I know) but I like his style and I like that I can recognize a couple of the spots he has painted as we have often hunted that area.

I believe he won a DU artist of the year award a few years back.

Mark W
 
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