Montana artist Chuck Black won the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp art contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail. His tight rendition of a pintail drake on the water of a marsh topped 198 other ...

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 ...

It's well-established that Minnesota wildlife artists have produced a dynasty in the long-running federal duck stamp competition. Well, this year's victor is from Montana — by way of Minnesota. Chuck ...

Jade Hicks, 18, a student at Thunder Mountain High School, took top honors in the 2024 Alaska Junior Duck Stamp Contest with a painting of an American Wigeon titled “Perusing in the Pond.” Hicks’ ...

Sep. 23—DES MOINES, Iowa. — After two days of competition, Chuck Black of Belgrade, Montana, emerged as the winner of the with an oil painting of a northern pintail, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Emily Lian uses her love of nature and imagination when painting wildlife and it shows. The 17-year-old Bethany resident’s colorful image of an orange-billed king eider won first place in the national ...

Wildlife artist Michael Kensinger, standing in front of a gallery of paintings entered in the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. Credit: Emma Gometz In mid-September, artists from around the country ...

2022-2023 junior duck stamp, artist Madison Grimm, three time winner, Green-winged Teal. (Junior Duck Stamp 2022-2023, Madison Grimm/USFWS, Copyrighted, All Rights ...

The deadline has been announced for an annual youth waterfowl art contest. Entries in the Washington Junior Duck Stamp Contest are due to the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge by Feb. 15. The ...

Adam Grimm of Wallace, South Dakota, placed second with an acrylic painting of a northern pintail pair, and Gerald Mobley of Claremore, Oklahoma, took third with an acrylic of a northern pintail.