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Peter Corbin An Artist’s Creel
Introduction and Essay By Tom Davis
Foreword by John Merwin With the publication of his book An Artist’s Creel, the celebrated sporting artist and landscape painter Peter Corbin has, in the rare and venerable tradition of Winslow Homer, Ogden Pleissner, and A.B. Frost, merged the natural wonders and elegant drama of the sporting life with the world of fine art. The best sporting art conveys the essence and universality of the outdoor experience, engages the viewer’s own memories, dreams, and imagination, and irresistibly draws them into the scene. Corbin’s vivid sporting scenes carry this sense of place, mood, and atmosphere in the light reflected off the water or transmitted through clouds or trees, revealing influences of the Hudson River School. Using experiences from a lifetime spent in the natural world as a passionate and traditional sportsman, Corbin’s deft, painterly touch with panoramic landscapes celebrates his fascination with the intense interplay of light and shadow in land- and waterscapes. This important monograph features fourteen halftones and two hundred color plates woven together to combine abstract elements with realism, ranging from the visual ballet of fly fishing, with all its aesthetic elegance, to the overwhelming grandeur of salmon rivers, tropical bonefish flats, thick grouse covers, unique portraits, to powerful equestrian scenes. Tom Davis is editor-at-large for Pointing Dog Journal, senior editor/Gundogs columnist for Sporting Classic, and the author of many books and articles on the outdoors. John Merwin, fishing editor for Field & Stream Magazine, is the acclaimed author of numerous articles and publications on the sporting life.
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