“In the sporting art of Arthur Shilstone, what emerges is as much a feeling as a picture - soft and fresh and spontaneous, altogether the result of a roving and resourceful eye and an immensely talented hand.” Arthur Shilstone was born in 1922 in Essex County, New Jersey. His father was a businessman on Wall Street and, after the Great Crash of the stock market, moved his family to Lake Mahopac in New York state. This move served as the impetus for Shilstone’s life-long interest in hunting and fishing. During his high school years, Shilstone was encouraged by an art teacher to consider a career in the art field. Following his graduation from high school, he enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, an education which was cut short with the onset of World War II. Shilstone served in the 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion in Normandy, and while there, continued his pursuit of art by sketching. At the end of the war, Shilstone returned to Pratt and completed his education. After graduation he pursued a career in illustration in New York City, where he was eventually discovered by Life Magazine with whom he worked for ten years. Shilstone’s work has appeared in over 30 magazines, from Smithsonian to Sports Illustrated, from Gourmet to Military History Quarterly. He lives with his wife, Beatrice, in Connecticut in the Saugatuck River Valley. * Graduate of Pratt Institute Additional study at the New School for Social Research. New York City, and the Brooklyn Museum Art School His work has appeared in 36 national magazines including: Smithsonian, National Geographic, Life, Gourmet, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times Magazine; also in ads by national advertising agencies, as well as book jackets and interior illustrations for leading publishers. Assignments for major United States corporations include paintings and drawings used in annual reports and for special projects for U.S. Steel, Exxon, AT&T, Freeport Mineral Co., AMAX, IBM, Anaconda, St. Joseph Lead Mining Co., Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co., and Western Electric. Military and government projects: NASA (Seven on-site assignments of the Space Shuttle, including pictorial coverage of blast offs and landings) National Parks Service, Military Air Transport, Marine Corps Airline assignments: On location paintings of all major stops in Brazil for Varig Airlines. Coverage of the Pacific Air Lift in operation for the cargo carrier Seaboard, and Western Airlines during the Korean War, flying back on a Military Air Transport plane to record the evacuation of the wounded. Collections: NASA Air & Space Museum, Cape Canaveral, Florida; Victory Center Museum, Yorktown, Virginia; National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York; Museum of American Illustration, New York City; Collection of the Archives of the City of Quebec, Canada; Sanford Low Collection of American Illustration at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut; corporate and private collections. Member Watercolor Society His work has been published in: Flashes in the River, The Flyfishing Images of Arthur Shilstone and Ed Gray, published by Willow Creek Press, Minocqua, Wisconsin. * This information was taken from an article by John G. Mitchell, “Places to be Sensed, Senses to be Placed,” which appeared in an issue of Sporting Classics Magazine.