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S P O R T I N G C L A S S I C S • 125 Lynn Bogue Hunt painted a large number of leaping saltwater gamefish. This oil on canvas appeared on the cover of the March 1931 issue of Literary Digest. Opposite: Hunt enjoyed hunting pheasants and other gamebirds, but he wasn't much for roughing it in the great outdoors. After the hunt he preferred to return to a good meal, a drink with ice in it, and a comfortable bed. LYNN BOGUE HUNT ANGLER, HUNTER, ARTIST By Tom Davis A ngler, hunter, and above all artist, Lynn Bogue Hunt was the most popular and prolific outdoor illustrator in mid-20th century America. He painted a record 106 covers for Field & Stream in addition to numerous covers for other publications; illustrated dozens of books on waterfowling, upland bird hunting, and saltwater fishing (not coincidentally, his three main interests as a sportsman); published several portfolios of his paintings to enormous acclaim; and was referred to by no less an authority than the New York Times as "the Audubon of his time." He was a bon vivant, too. Perpetually tanned and angularly handsome, he cut a dashing figure in any company. He was as Lynn Bogue Hunt is the finest painter of gamebirds that we have in America . . . – Ernest Hemingway " " comfortable twisting a lemon peel into a martini at a poolside cocktail party as he was rigging a complicated trolling bait on the deck of a pitching sport fisherman. Hunt fished, hunted, and hobnobbed with the most famous outdoorsmen of his day: Van Campen Heilner, S. Kip Farrington, Ray Holland, Zane Grey, and, oh yeah, that Hemingway guy. Hunt even did a painting of a semi-tame quail that Hemingway and his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, kept at Finca Vigia, the home in Cuba that looms so massively in the Hemingway mythology. Born in Honeoye Falls, New York (near Rochester) in 1878, Lynn Bogue Hunt mostly grew up in Albion, Michigan. With the support and encouragement of his mother, who'd left Hunt's