ALBORN — In the hit movie "Fargo," sheriff Marge has to console her wildlife artist husband Norm after he loses the federal duck stamp art competition to the Hautman brothers, a real-life triumvirate ...

An acrylic painting of buffleheads in flight by James Hautman of Chaska, Minnesota, won the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. The image will be featured on the 2026-27 Federal Migratory Bird ...

James Hautman has established a duck dynasty. Hautman, an artist from Chaska, a Twin Cities suburb, is the winner of the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in ...

Sam Timm of Wautoma has been a wildlife artist since 1975 when, as a senior at North Central University in Minneapolis, he was inspired by a painting and decided "I'd like to do that." He proceeded to ...

This year, Chaska resident Jim Hautman emerged victorious in the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest run by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to decide which image will be reproduced on tens of ...

Jim Hautman of Chaska won the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Contest with an acrylic painting of three buffleheads.

The rainbow trout glistens as its pectoral fins froth the water in a dive for the deep. Fooled by a royal coachman streamer fly, now caught in its lower lip, the big fish flashes all the colors of its ...

Christchurch-based New Zealand and British artist Hannah Jensen speaks about painting in reverse, where all the layers of paint are applied first, then carved to reveal what’s in her heart. Displaced ...