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Article: Watercolors & fish tales.(fish paintings by James Prosek)
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- Country Living
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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James Prosek captures trout with a naturalist's eye, a painter's hand, and a fisherman's patience.
He's been called the Audubon of fish, and, indeed, there are similarities between Connecticut native James Prosek, 23, and 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon. Audubon's interest in birds took him deep into the American wilderness; Prosek's love of fishing has sent him around the globe. Audubon executed his first bird sketches at the age of 17; at about the same age, James rendered the paintings for his first book, Trout: An Illustrated History (Knopf; 1996; $27.50), which has sold a respectable 60,000 copies. James likes to say that during his youth the ...