Author: Robert Bateman, illus. Ramsay Derry, text. Roger Tory Peterson, intro

Publisher/Date: Pomegranate 2006. ISBN: 9780764937651

Format/Condition: New large hardcover book w/ dust jacket in fine condition. 180pp

Description:”If I could paint like another wildlife artist, it would be Robert Bateman,” quipped Roger Tory Peterson. In his introduction to this classic album of Bateman’s natural subjects—a 25th anniversary edition of his first book, originally published in 1981—Peterson notes that the artist’s work has been compared to Andrew Wyeth’s. “It is no accident that [Bateman’s] paintings elicit an instant response from most nature-oriented viewers…. His paintings have a third-dimensional activity, a movement in space, that many wildlife artists fail to master.” Here are more than 80 color images of birds, moose, bear, foxes, cougars, rhinos, leopards, small mammals, and many other creatures Bateman has studied in the wild, each accompanied by the artist’s own commentary.