If (as I think) “Tazi” and “Saluki” are linguistic rather than biological distinctions, reflected where Arabic turns to the Turkic and Persian tongues, the title is redundant. The pics are not, and even clinal change admits some differences. Iranian tazi, stolen weeks ago, returned to its horse archer partner this week, a friend of a …
Tag: Art
Paleo Art comes of age…
Which doesn’t mean gets dull and predictable. On the contrary, the abundance of “new” fossils has given birth to a generation of artistic and scientific iconoclasts whose bold new vision is far more rooted in the past than any older generation’s was. The inimitable polymath and prodigiously productive blogger Darren Naish, a serious anatomist, was …
Some more talented friends
Lest anyone be confused about who is who (see comments not too far below), two southwestern greats, artists, horse folks, friends: photographer Jay Dusard, printmaker and pastel artist Nance McManus, A couple of favorites by Nance: “Prophet”, and a Dinosaurian heron And two by Jay. The first is of rancher- houndman- conservationist Warner Glenn, who …
Gerry has a Blog! (& other Internet News)
Gerry Cox, a founding member of our small group of writing- hunting- eating- gun nut- lit- crit sporting gents, (another is The Old Gunkie), has been hounded by us into starting his own blog. It will be good. He is the only talented amateur gunsmith I know who has published in English Literary Renaissance, and …
Appleby
Reader Darrell Mason brought this link on the Raven Gun and its history with the Tower of London to my attention. In the 80s I corresponded quite a bit with Malcolm Appleby, who engraves a lot of things, not just guns. At the time he was doing his series of magical “totem” guns for David …
Dali Fly
Recently, writer Tom Davis put me in touch with master fly- tier Pete Fleischman, thinking correctly that I might have the skin of our local specialty, the Mearn’s quail.Its spotted fethers were neeeded for the”modern” classic salmon fly called the Dali, after the artist of course. Traditional Atlantic salmon flies are strange things, surreal colorful …
Guadalupe
Tom Russell’s song from “Blood and Candle Smoke”, sung by Gretchen Peters, and Guadalupe herself, painted by Tom. You can see his paintings, including I believe the original of this print, at Rainbow Man gallery in Santa Fe. He began last week’s show with this haunting song. We do have an oddly eclectic “collection”– she …
Rungius Letter!
Serendipity: not only did I pick up several interesting books at Nick Potter’s in Santa Fe; in my “new” copy of the uncommon 1948 Knopf Borzoi sporting book, Russell Annabel’s Hunting and Fishing in Alaska (which I have been looking for for years) I found a letter by the greatest painter of American (or any?) …
What is this man DOING?
And how long is he likely to be doing it? From the cover of a new issue of a venerable outdoor mag that employs several friends, a “re- creation” of a 1912 cover. Well, sorta, kinda… But: how many times has this man been on a horse? How long do you think the horse’s ears …
KIngdonia, old and New
Jonathan Kingdon’s magnum opus is coming. Here are a few images of JK and his past work: