- June 22, 2008
- Author: David J. Wagner, Lecture and Book Signing
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Schedule of Events:
- David Wagner Lecture: 3pm
- at the Parish Hall at St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Book signing and opening reception: “Endangered Species: Flora and Fauna in Peril” 4 to 6pm at the Wildling Art Museum
To see more go to American Wildlife Art:
www.american-wildlife-art.com/index2.html
David
J. Wagner is a leading wildlife art author,
curator, and lecturer. He organizes and promotes wildlife art
exhibitions and educational programs to museums nationwide. Wagner
received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and wrote his
dissertation on American wildlife art while he was scholar-in-residence
at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon. With funding
from the Robert S. and Grayce B. Kerr Foundation, Wagner expanded his
research to develop the book American Wildlife Art.
Wagner previously co-authored Natural Habitat: Contemporary Wildlife Artists of North America (1998). In 1992 he was invited by Roger Tory Peterson to organize a worldwide conference entitled Value in American Wildlife Art at the Chautauqua Institute to commemorate the opening of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York. He subsequently organized two similar landmark conferences: the first at the Björklunden Campus of Lawrence University in 2000 and the second in Phoenix in 2001. Wagner has served as a juror for the U.S. Department of Interior Migratory Waterfowl Stamp Competition; director of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin; Museum Assessment Program consultant for the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; guest curator for The Wildlife Experience in Denver, Colorado; and tour director of the Society of Animal Artists in New York.
In “American Wildlife Art,” author David J. Wagner tells the story of how this classic art form evolved from early watercolor drawings, like those by Mark Catesby, to John James Audubon’s classic masterpiece “Birds of America,” to the achievements of today’s great wildlife parinters and sculptors, including such notable names as Robert Bateman, Bob Kuhn, and Kent Ullberg.
Complete with more than 300 illustrations, “American Wildlife Art” will appeal to collectors, conservationists, artists, and anyone who already enjoys wildlife art or is learning about it for the first time.
- David J. Wagner, PhD, Published by Marquand Books
- Hardcover with jacket, 424 pages
- 280 color illustrations
- 30 black-and-white illustrations
- Introduction by Robert Bateman
- $85.00 - available at the Wildling Art Museum
Photo of David Wagner signing book at premiere in Charleston |
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