Field Notes | Walter Matia

Field Notes | Walter Matia

with essays by Claudia P. Pfeiffer, Deputy Director and George L. Ohrstrom Jr Curator, National Sporting Library & Museum and Walter Matia, Artist.  Foreword by Elizabeth von Hassell, Executive Director, National Sporting Library & Museum. 

Published 2021 by the National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM) 

The fifty-two page catalogue includes high resolution images and personal  commentary from artist Walter Matia on over thirty bronze works in Field Notes | Walter Matia, an exhibition at the NSLM. 

Walter Matia is a contemporary bronze sculptor. His work is influenced by his study of biology, his experience as a taxidermist, a successful career as a conservationists, and a life-long drive to observe nature as a hunter-naturalist. 

The exhibition is on view June 19th, 2021 - January 9, 2002. Seven large-scale works of wild turkeys, a pointer, a Peregrine Falcon, Mourning Doves, Blue-winged Teal Ducks, Whooping Cranes, and a Great Blue Heron greet visitors throughout the NSLM’s grounds. Two interior galleries feature sculptures, bas reliefs, and a fire screen depicting a variety of sporting dogs and hounds, bison, and wild- and waterfowl. Several of the works in the exhibition serve as a reminder of threatened species in need of protection.

Field Notes | Walter Matia is generously underwritten by Susan and John Mullin.