Lynn Bogue Hunt: Angler, Hunter, Artist - Deluxe Signed and Limited Edition

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Signed and inscribed by Ernest Hemingway to Lynn Bogue Hunt on signature cut adhered adjacent to half-title page: "To Lynn Bogue Hunt, with very best wishes from his friend, Ernest Hemingway". Deep ruddy red pebbled full-leather boards, bright gilt embossed cover design and spine titles. Front features a Hunt game bird in raised gilt with his stylish paintbrush signature in gilt below. Interior features fine heavy stock coated pages. Lavishly illustrated with full and partial-page images of the natural and realist paintings and drawings of LBH. This marvelous volume showcases the complete collection of Hunt paintings acquired by New Jersey sportsman Paul Vartanian. It is the world s largest assembly of Hunt paintings, drawings, and memorabilia, and the largest and most complete collection of the work of any major sporting artist. Signed and numbered by Paul Vartanian at half-title page: "Paul Vartanian, #278/500". Folio oversize 9 1/2" x 12 1/4" design. Printed in Canada. 180 pages. Insured post. Acclaimed wildlife artist Lynn Bogue Hunt, who illustrated more national magazine covers than any other artist in history, is featured here. An angler, hunter, and artist, Hunt was America s most popular and prolific outdoor illustrator of the mid-twentieth century - the "Golden Age" of the American outdoors. He painted a record 106 covers for Field & Stream and illustrated dozens of books on waterfowling, upland bird hunting, and saltwater fishing, his three main interests as a sportsman. He designed the 1939- 40 Federal Duck Stamp and was described by his friend Ernest Hemingway as "the finest painter of game birds that we have in America." The high-water mark of his career, though, came in 1944 with the publication of Game Birds of America, a portfolio of a dozen full-color prints issued by Field & Stream - and accompanied by great fanfare. Ernest Hemingway himself weighed in with an endorsement. He was a bon vivant, too. Perpetually tanned and angularly handsome, he cut a dashing figure in any company. He was as comfortable twisting a lemon peel into a martini at a poolside cocktail party as he was rigging a complicated trolling bait on the deck of a pitching sport fisherman. Hunt fished, hunted, and hobnobbed with the most famous outdoorsmen of his day: Van Campen Heilner, S. Kip Farrington, Ray Holland, Zane Grey, and, as mentioned, that Hemingway guy. Hunt even did a painting of a semi-tame quail that Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, kept at Finca Vigia, the home in Cuba that looms so massively in the Hemingway mythology. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Seller Inventory # 019870

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