Striped Bass
Artist's Proof Signed Print, 36" wide
Artist: James Prosek

Artist, writer, naturalist, and Yale graduate James Prosek made his authorial debut at nineteen years of age with "Trout: an Illustrated History" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), which featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America.

James' work has been shown at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery among other institutions. He has written for The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine and won a Peabody Award in 2003 for his documentary about traveling through England in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, the seventeenth-century author of "The Compleat Angler."

James co-founded a conservation initiative called World Trout in 2004 with Yvon Chouinard, the owner of Patagonia clothing company, which raises money for coldwater habitat conservation through the sale of T-shirts featuring trout paintings.

James is on the board of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale, serves on the Leadership Council for Riverkeeper and is a member of the advisory board of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.

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