Who's your favorite wildlife artist?

I have a list of them, which goes back to when we started buying at dinners.

Maass - Hallways
Leslie - Foyer
Redlin - Liv rm walls
Booth - Master Brm walls
Hautmans - Bedrooms
McDonald - office

and local artist
Richard Clifton

And I am sure there are others throughout the house! Or still not hung on the walls!
 
Don't forget Robert Bateman.

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Homer is my favorite. Anther I like that hasn't been mentioned is Thomas Quinn. Besides being a wildlife artists and hunter he ran retrievers in filed trials. I have a couple prints of his work: http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/collectorscovey_2081_36786187
http://galleryone.com/fineart/quinn/QUIBL1.html

Tom
 
I have a few Leon Parsons

http://www.onewest.net/~parson/pages/prints.html

And collect water colors by local artist-----small name locals
 
Maynard Reece! Only five-time Federal Duck Stamp designer. He will be 90 years old next year and he is still hunting and painting. I spoke with him today and he is very enthusiastic about everything.

Jeff Churan
Chillicothe, MO
 
My all time favorite is Lou Schifferl. Lou has done more for decoys and decoy collecting than any other artist known. Lou is the original decoy artist. His artwork graced the Decoy Collectors Guides back in the 60's and still grace Hunting and Fishing Collectibles magazine today. His pen and inks are classics. I feel blessed Lou did this one for me. Being a lover of duck skiffs, this is a dandy...
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[font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]"I have many that I am fond of, but my all time favorite is David Hagerbaumer. God Bless him!"

I have to agree with Mark. I have a signed Hagerbaumer NWTF Restoration Stamp print in my dining room. Every time I look at it reminds me of "being there". There is nothing contrived about it.
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Wow!
It's been a number of years since I even thought about Wildlife Art. Funny, considering it used to be the all consuming power in my life. There are times I still wax poetic about the old days of the Michigan Wildlife Art show, or the Clare festival, or the Blue Bird, and Hawk Feathermeyer. All gone now, do in no small part to the fact that we ate our own tails.

The salad days that created the great rush of enthusiasm, where we found ourselves awash in limited editions of 10,000 (LTD)prints sent the genre scurrying over the cliff like so many lemmings on a death run. In the wake I lost contact with many friends whose work a greatly admired.

Bruce Miller, the Brothers Hautman ( I once watched Jim barter prints for a fly reel he just had to have), Greg Alexander, Jim Foote (rest the old man's soul).Jon "Frenchy"LaBeau, Gjisbert VanFrankhuizen, but if I had to choose one artist whose work I truly enjoyed it would have to be Rod Lawrence the "King of Kalkaska". Not only does he create wonderful and vibrant work, he is just one heck of an all around good guy.

All this revelry has almost fired me up enough to pick up the brush again, it has been a very long time since flat art has fired me up. Something about decoys and form for functions sake can really get under your skin.. AS for now it really fills my creative needs.

Good question, thanks for asking it,
The Artist formerly known as B
 
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I've always really like Terry Redlin and a local artist (of national recognition) who passed away about two years ago named Larry Chandler
 
I've always really like Terry Redlin and a local artist (of national recognition) who passed away about two years ago named Larry Chandler
Larry's dead? That is a bummer. He was an awesome guy, and when it came to knowing the heart of a sporting dog he had it nailed.
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There's been a lot of good suggestions. Many artists I've never heard of, and it's been interesting to look for examples of their work.

Bob--a person you and some others mentioned that I have a new appreciation for is Brett Smith, esp. his oil paintings: http://brettsmith.com/original.htm

Seems like the majority of his paintings are scenes from before the hunt, like "A Close Pass," "Late Start," and "Early Work," the sorts of moments hunters identify with because they contain all of the promise of the day to come. He does the same with fishing, in "The River Fisherman," and "Above the Pool." It makes you think that he is also commenting on the work of the artist, which is mostly preparation and anticipation as well.

Rick
 
michael sieve - by far my favorite big game artist
the hautman brothers - the best duck stamp artists out there. i think ther're up to 8 or 9 between them.
scott storm - its hard to beat him with ducks.

adam grimm is in there he did the images for the F.U.D. decoys. david maass does some great waterfowl scenes. mark susinno for fish and anything underwater, his art has been on bass pro and cabelas cataloges.

and a few more

eddie
 
My favorite is a Chesapeake Bay artisit Willie Crockett this guy captures the marsh and the Bay like nobody else. Some other great bay artists are CD Clarke and the late Robert Clontz. All great artists with an eye for duck hunting scenes.
 
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