The Art of Milton C Weiler

By John T. Ordeman and M. C. 'Bud' Weiler Jr. and Jr. Ordeman, John T. & M. C. 'Bud' Weiler

Fine Sporting Art Book: Flyfishing, Upland Bird Hunting, Waterfowling;The middle decades of the 20thcentury were a period of extraordinary accomplishment in the sporting art genre in America. Frank W. Benson. Roland Clark, Ogden Pleissner, Lynn Bogue Hunt, William J. Schaldach, David Hagerbaumer, A. Lassell Ripley and Milton C. Weiler sportsmen all, and artists whose paintings convey the essence of their sporting activities the appreciation of the natural world and the challenge, the suspense, and the thrill that the gunner and the angler experience in the marsh, the field, the stream and the river. All of these artists, with the exception of Milton Weiler, have been the subjects of well-illustrated biographical tributes. No one of them, however, is more deserving of such recognition than he, and this book has been written to fill an existing void of information about Milt Weiler, and the place he has earned in the chronicles of American sporting art.Milt Weiler was a watercolorist who could recreate in his paintings the look and the feel of a winter waterfowl marsh, autumn upland bird cover, a spring trout stream and a summer salmon river in the manner of the tradition established by the artist whose works had inspired him, Winslow Homer. Weiler was also a carver of decoys, ducks of such sculptural beauty that they won him top awards in the most prestigious working decoy and decorative bird carving competitions. "Weiler," in the opinion of Nelson Bryant, writing for the New York Times, "was considered one of the most accomplished painters of hunting and fishing scenes in this country, and he was also an expert carver of decoys."Weiler created covers and illustrations for many sporting magazines, and he earned accolades as an illustrator of volumes by many of the foremost authors of sporting books Eugene Connett, Red Smith, Howard Walden, Burton Spiller, Gene Hill, Joseph Bates, John Alden Knight and John Taintor Foote among them. The noted artist Peter Corbin has said, "Weiler probably produced the best sporting art pencil sketches of the 20th century."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983151946
• ISBN13: 9780983151944
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Lydia Inglett Publishing
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.0"