The present collection of game fish studies has been made during the 

 last twenty-five years especially to satisfy the peculiar requirements of 

 anglers, scientists, and government officials. To please his patrons the 

 artist has endeavored to study and copy each species of fish in action as 

 near to nature as possible, and from the living fresh caught specimens 

 before the dying, dull, color-change appears. 



Only the angler is really familiar with the beautiful color of the live 

 fish when taken from its natural habitat. Aquarium specimens which 

 exist, (even a short time) in a subdued light, soon fade, and gradually lose 

 that beauty of color which is theirs when they are first taken from their 

 natural environment and deprived of their natural food. Most people know 

 fish only from the corpse-like objects exposed for sale in shops and very 

 few (even anglers) have ever seen the glorious beauty of the male brook 

 trout in his nuptial attire in the spawning period. Again, fish caught in 

 shady deep-water are much darker than the same fish caught in light- 

 shallow water, and, as with other creatures, the male is always more highly 

 colored. Both sexes have less coloring in spring than in the fall spawning 

 season. 



Among the paintings shown are various studies of the three most 



popular species of trout caught on the Eastern Seaboard Brook trout, 



Brown or English trout (sometimes erroneously named German trout) 

 and Rainbow trout. Each of these has a distinct coloration varied according 

 to its habitat, so that each must be painted in a manner which I can only 

 describe as Idealisic Realism. Even that, where comparatively successful, 

 requires an accurate memory and many careful though quickly worked 

 preparatory studies. The work here shown is the result of efforts in that 

 direction. 



LIST OF MARINE GAMEFISH 



BLUE FISH (POMATOMUS SALTATRIX) 



"Plunging into a school of moss bunkers with snapping jaws, it 

 gorges and disgorges as it moves along; in its wake are long streak.s 

 of blood, and flocks of gulls feeding on the fragments." 



Prof. Brown Goode. 



STRIPED BASS (BACCUS LISCATUS) A dash through the surf. 



TARPON (MEGALOPS THISSOIDES) A leap for freedom. 



LEAPING TUNA (ORCYNUS THYNNUS) 

 WEAKFISH (CYNOSCION REGALE) 

 STRIPED BASS (YOUNG SPECIMEN) 



SELECTION OF TWELVE BERMUDA MARINE FISHES 



PORTRAIT OF IZAAK WALTON 

 (After picture in National Portrait Gallery, London) 



