This painting, in which Carl Rungius does his own version of a Charley Russell theme, is in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole. Most of Rungius’s late great oils have a distinctive theme or style, which I characterized rudely to two of my friends, art historian Jim Moore and museum curator Toby …
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Image again
Here is the full image of the painting that contains the detail I blogged on below. I await the book, but as far as I know it is in Chinese, so it may still be enigmatic. It is both beautiful and sinister, and its title is “Clearing the Mountains”. Who is clearing whom out of …
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“No science without fancy. No art without facts” (Vladimir Nabokov, via Carlos Martinez del Rio)
Old Timers
Our annual fiesta seems to have taken on new life, and despite threatening (pre?) monsoon clouds staggering by, nothing is getting cancelled. It SMELLS like O t’s. Now we just need the metronymic rhythm of 4 pm daily storms (with hail!) and maybe this will be the best “real” rain in a decade… Pics, random …
Cover
Book is more than half done but not done; cover is. Vadim of course.
Upcoming Trip
Connie and I are leaving later this week on a two-week trip to Tanzania. Our itinerary includes visits to Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Oldupai (used to be Olduvai) Gorge, and Serengeti National Park. We hope to have lots of photographs and stories to share when we return.
Local moths
All but one are member of large groups that are represented everywhere and anywhere, though collected here. That one is not rare, but it is interesting…
Pedersen Rifle
But for the preferences of General MacArthur and a big supply of WWI Springfields, we might have had a more elegant, if complicated, rifle for WWII than the Garand. Nathaniel F, gunblogger, scholar, and expert on military weapons and their history, first showed me a cartridge for the legendary Pedersen when he visited with Arthur …
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Reid found this. Sounds satirical but I assure you I have seen worse in Mongolia, not to mention Kenneth Tynan’s legendary Spanish one he cites in his 50’s bullfight book Bull Fever… (better than Death in the Afternoon- improbably, I have two first eds, one signed, totally by accident…)
Clark City
Russell Chatham is back in northern California, fishing, thinking, writing, getting back to his roots. I don’t have any practical info, yet, but he is reviving Clark City Press, one step at a time . Back in the day, he was the one publisher willing to take Querencia– the- book. Without him, this blog would …