Who is your favorite artist?

Thanks kp, who else even comes close?

Flewis said:

While I’m not much of a church goer I would say GOD.

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Well, we could say that's Mother Nature

My wife was thrifting yesterday and she came home with this for our living room/trophy room from a Salvation Army store. Banovich is her favorite wildlife artist and my favorite artist overall after Monet.

If we ever get our taxidermy back from Namibia, the room is going to be stunning with her art collection.

Bob Kuhn, Charles Frace, I'll add to the list when I get back home. Great thread.

Stephan Alsac I have a piece from him. His animals are incredible especially the eyes.
And
John Banovich especially the lions of tsavo painting

Betterinthebush said:

My wife was thrifting yesterday and she came home with this for our living room/trophy room from a Salvation Army store. Banovich is her favorite wildlife artist and my favorite artist overall after Monet.

If we ever get our taxidermy back from Namibia, the room is going to be stunning with her art collection.




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Nice find, that book is no longer available and if signed is worth several hundred dollars. I have Banovich’s book called King of Beasts all about his lion paintings. I bought a small Banovich painting at SCI this year and just got it to hang in my trophy room.
I also like SA artist Peter Stewart’s work and have one of his leopard giclees. Another good SA artist is Ilse

MontanaPat said:

Nice find, that book is no longer available and if signed is worth several hundred dollars. I have Banovich’s book called King of Beasts all about his lion paintings. I bought a small Banovich painting at SCI this year and just got it to hang in my trophy room.
I also like SA artist Peter Stewart’s work and have one of his leopard giclees. Another good SA artist is Ilse

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Let’s see a pic of the Bano in all its glory…..

Firebird said:

There are several good threads on artists-before I continue hijacking’s them, perhaps a renewed thread on favorite artists. I’ll start with two of mine.
Bob Kuhn has been dead over a decade but I still love to look through my book of his works are daydream that I had been part of some of those adventures.
Rien Poortvliet is another genius artist-his book Noah’s Ark is priceless. His personal notes are as interesting as his painting are!
I have many but would like to hear yours, including the local artists from your countries.

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@Firebird great topic.


Please, you may really enjoy this, for anyone, imo. Alberto Giacometti

steve white said:

Bob Kuhn, Charles Frace, I'll add to the list when I get back home. Great thread.

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I have a lovely Frace that my wife found at an auction. She bought it after my first hound hunt for lion. My house, without the detailed touches of art she finds, would look more like a mausoleum of dead critters than a home.

"Art Deco" I've always appreciated.

If money were no object, I'd try to bring back the 20's




certainly subjective, personal. I put this above my fireplace. (the idea came from a movie)?

Arizona Artists: Bob Bose Bell


And Ed Mell:

Anet Kruger…

Several AH members have her art in their homes (my wife and I have several pieces, including this commissioned piece…)

I have various known and unknown artists.

I like the unknown quality paintings.

But my favorites are of course my daughter’s Sunflowers completed when young. And my mother’s autumn trees done in her late 80s.

Growing up lots of people we knew had Cowan works so I have a few of them
And these hung up in my grandparents hunting lodge

As a Civil War guy, I'd have to go with Dale Gallon.

John S

Firebird said:

There are several good threads on artists-before I continue hijacking’s them, perhaps a renewed thread on favorite artists. I’ll start with two of mine.
Bob Kuhn has been dead over a decade but I still love to look through my book of his works are daydream that I had been part of some of those adventures.
Rien Poortvliet is another genius artist-his book Noah’s Ark is priceless. His personal notes are as interesting as his painting are!
I have many but would like to hear yours, including the local artists from your count

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John Seery-Lester by far

Betterinthebush said:

My wife was thrifting yesterday and she came home with this for our living room/trophy room from a Salvation Army store. Banovich is her favorite wildlife artist and my favorite artist overall after Monet.

If we ever get our taxidermy back from Namibia, the room is going to be stunning with her art collection.




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John Seery-Lester is my favorite

Bev Doolittle, Robert Rucker and Darhart Windberg.
Rucker is a Louisiana artist and Windberg is a Texas artist.

Doolittle has interesting artwork, some natural camoflauge (The Forest Has Eyes, The Wind Has Wings and Music in the Wind) and whimsical (Respect).

Big fan of David Sheppard have one of these prints in my office.




Also like David Maass for his waterfowl work.

Good topic, and a nice one because there are no wrong answers.

I was glad to see the OP mention Rien Poortvliet. I actually met him when I was young lieutenant back in the late seventies. He was visiting Germany, and a German hunting companion invited me to lunch to meet him. I don't pretend to be much of an artist, but he affected my personal style more than any other. Literally haven't picked up a brush in decades, but in the early eighties, selling a few made a big difference to a young captain, his wife, and two little ones.

Two of my water colors from the early eighties channeling a lot of Poortvliet.


I won't list any of the masters, we enjoy those at museums. But I will list some that we have found and could afford over the years. Ella Koepke Mewhinney was a Texas colorist whose most notable work was done before and slightly after WWII. She created both wonderful impressionistic landscapes and still-lifes. We are fortunate to have three, and these are the two favorites representing both styles.




Because of my military career, I have always been fascinated with art that the subject of warfare has generated. I have probably a dozen but these are my three favorites. The first is a Stivers original oil portrait. I have a number of his prints, but it is special to have one of his originals. Those Southerners reading this will immediately recognize John Moseby - the Gray Ghost of the Confederacy.


The other two are by Allen Egnell. A mid-twentieth century Danish artist, he is not well known in this country. But his military works are superb and superbly accurate usually reflecting 17th and 18th century warfare.

Gary Roller, New Mexico artist and sculptor.