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To buy: call 540-687-6542 ext. 14 or contact nstribling@nsl.org

  • Munnings: Out in the Open

    Exhibition Catalog, Munnings: Out in the Open  April 24 – September 15, 2013
    Sixty-eight paintings, the largest exhibition of Munnings’ work in the U.S. in the past thirty years, organized by the National Sporting Library & Museum.
    The 136 page color catalog is edited by Claudia Pfeiffer, NSLM George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator who curated the exhibition of the same name. The opening of Munnings: Out in the Open was celebrated with a private preview of the film “Summer in February” that features a time in Munnings’ life spent among fellow open air painters on the coast of Cornwall. Essays in the catalog include Jonathan Smith, author of the book on which the film is based and Jeremy Cowdrey, film producer. Other essays are by Lorian Peralta-Ramos, international authority on Munnings and NSLM board member; James Johnston, Owner of Menham Mill and Chairman, Castle House Trust; and Claudia Pfeiffer. 136 pages. Paperback. $30.00

     

  • Animal & Sporting Artists in America

    By F. Turner Reuter, Jr. Published by the National Sporting Library, 2008. 880 pages; 2,384 artist biographies; 418 illustrations. Second edition, 2011. Hardcover, $175.

  • Exhibition catalogue, The Voss Family

    Artists of American Sporting Life (August 29, 2008 to February 28, 2009), with essays by Curator Gregory R. Weidman and Peter Winants (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: National Musuem of Racing and Hall of Fame, 2007). 56 pages. Paperback. $10.00.

  • Exhibition catalogue, Afield in America

    Afield in America: 400 Years of Animal and Sporting Art, published by the National Sporting Library and Museum, 2011. 208 pages. Paperback. $40.00.
    A 260-page, color catalogue accompanies the exhibition; critical essays explore larger interpretations of these works with the objective of defining the remarkable role animal and sporting artists have played in the history of American art. Essayists include: William H. Gerdts, Ph.D, art historian and author of Art Across America; Adam D. Harris, Ph.D, Curator of the National Museum of Wildlife Art and author of Wildlife in American Art; Daniel J. Herman, Ph.D, historian and author of Hunting and the American Imagination; F. Turner Reuter, Jr., Curator of Afield in America and author of Animal and Sporting Artists in America; and Robin R. Salmon, author and Vice President for Collections and Curator of Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens.