Interested in seeing what fishing related art or wall hangings you have at home. I’m thinking about dressing up some pretty bland walls here and could use some ideas and inspiration. Paintings, prints, photos, mounts... the more pics, the better!

I have some random knick knacky stuff people have given me over the years. Neat crafty stuff like a “gone fishing” sign you hang on a door etc. However the only thing I would consider artwork is the needlepoint my mom made for me like 10 years ago. Truly a treasure.

Interesting subject considering I have been an art collector and dealer for more than 30 years. My mother got me into it. She was an antiques dealer. I inherited some of her art and have built my own collection up over these last 30 years.

Since I have only so much wall space, paintings come and they go. My lawyer recently moved into a new larger office space and rather than pay him money all the time, he said he would accept paintings which I gladly gave to him to make space for my new paintings. I regret giving him some of them and wish I had them back, but I have been fortunate in my searching for them, and have been able to easily replace the losses with awesome new finds.

I tend to stick with original artworks and not reprints. I don't find much value in prints like I do in original one of a kind works of art.

That said, over these last 30 years I have carefully crafted a personal set of rules for the art.

1)Primary target pieces are Florida artists and art of and about Florida nature. So in this first rule of art, when it comes to Florida nature there cannot be any manmade items seen in the images. Must be all nature. So this is a primary focus.

2)Other nature art without manmade objects in the image.

3)Paintings of a level of quality that leave cartoon level like Bob Ross behind, and enter the realm of art that is painted so well it looks like a photograph rather than art.

4)Paintings of historical value, & artists of historical value.

I want to see Florida nature on my walls. As if when I am inside my home, the places I want to visit and fish and boat are painted on my walls. Places I want to imagine being and what I would be doing if there. I want the art on my walls to take me there.

So I collect works of art from amateurs as well as professionals and historic artists alike. Just today I scanned through a website with over 2000 paintings up for auction because there are a few artists, some living, some deceased, who I like to collect some of their originals.

I don't collect fishing art per say, but if I came across a good one at the right price I would certainly buy it. I just passed up some in those 2000 I just viewed. Several original watercolors of old guys fly fishing up north. That does not fit into the Florida theme I try and build on. I found a bass painting recently, but the fish was not anatomically correct and I passed on it.

Over the years I have developed a good eye for art. I am one of the few people who can claim to have walked into a thrift store and purchased a real Picasso for $1.98. True story! Granted it was a small print, but it had a real autograph and it was dated which a key clue to its authenticity. Artists generally don't date their signature. Picasso did. He signed hundreds of them before his death and when I searched for others, I found more signed on same date as mine. A mint condition print signed was valued at $600 at the time. I sold mine at auction, a good condition signed print for around $150. It could have gone higher if the auctioneer had not questioned its authenticity during the live auction. His innocent doubt shut down bidding. It was real and he never should have questioned it live in auction. Really disappointing.

I have found numerous other historical original pieces of art like my recent acquisition of a Beau Redmond original from his Lincolnville series which were gallery shown. Mine is one that was not included and had been forgotten by the artist. I paid $1 for it in a clearance bin at thrift store but could not bring myself to tell the artist that when I contacted him at his home in St. Augustine Florida at the time. He is elderly and I did not want to tell him what I paid for it or where I bought it. One day it will be sold at auction and could bring thousands. Its a historical Florida series of paintings about the black slave residential district of old town historic St. Augustine, Florida.

I actually drove to St. Augustine, since on the back of the painting it said in writing what street it was painted about, and I found the exact location of the image he painted, and I could triangulate from the image almost precisely where the artist setup his easel to paint it.

So not only do I get into collecting art for wall decorations, but also for investment opportunities.

I am as serious about art as I am about fishing and rods and reels.

I'll post some here in this thread. Some that have moved in and out, and some that I still have.

Here is an image I took of one of the artists hanging on my wall. His name is Donnie McCormmick. He is deceased now, but he was once upon a time the drummer in the ERIC QUINCY TATE band out of Atlanta, Georgia. I worked for him and his band EQT as one their last roadies. Before I left Atlanta to head back to Florida I purchased his Johnny Winter painting. It was not signed. I had to beg him to sign it. I paid like $50 for it. His son wanted $300. Today, it is priceless! It belongs in the halls of fame! And maybe one day it will be. After I get my $50 back plus extra.

This image was taken before he signed it for me

This is one of his paintings I wanted but did not get. Donnie knew he was dying and living on borrowed time, so this painting is an elderly person heading to emergency room and outside the hospital is going into the light rather than into the hospital. I view this as Donnie painting someone at the time of their death. I could be wrong.

Now signed thank goodness! Glad I did not leave Atlanta without the signature on this one! Takes the value up because it authenticates who painted it. Johnny Winter is important the band ERIC QUINCY TATE because Johnny Winter helped this band get going in their early days and donated one of his gibson firebird guitars to the band which they based their sound around.

The Johnny Winter guitar leaning up against my old volvo as we load up the car for another show complete with drums in backseat and this guitar. For this show I was driving just Donnie to and from the show.

For those of you who never heard of ERIC QUINCY TATE, they were a Southern rocking blues band from Corpus Christie, Texas moved to Atlanta for the Georgia music scene in late 1960's. This band was signed before the ALLMAN BROTHERS band, and was on the same record label as Allman Brothers band, Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willie, and many others on Capricorn Records out of Macon, Georgia.

It was the Allman Brothers band who scored in 1970 with their live at Fillmore East album, and from then on bands like Eric Quincy Tate kind of fell through the cracks into obscurity, but many would say this band was one of the best Southern rock bands of all time you never heard of! I was fortunate to get to work for them before the end came. I'm always at the end, but at least I was in there! RIP EQT!

Moving on to more art as requested. I'll start with my most recent acquisition. I walked into a thrift store just last week and scanned the walls for original art and locked onto this one instantly. I had to look it over carefully because its a watercolor original behind glass and could have been a print, but I was able to tell real fast its an original Irma Quigley. She is now 86 and when she painted this one she lived in Key West, Florida. She is the one who matted it originally, and I am one who appreciates an entire piece of art and quite often pull them out from behind the matting and re-frame it so I can see the entire piece of art edge to edge.

And that is what I am now doing with this newest painting. I am changing the matting color from white to a dark color, possibly the black seen here I am playing around with to make the image pop out more once hung on the wall. This one had a price tag on it for $25 and store was running a half off sale, so just over $13 for this fabulous historical Florida artist original.

Irma Quigley gave this one the title of "Thunder Storm" and shows sheets of grey rain coming down just like we see in nature. A beautiful addition to my Florida collection. Its a large one too 22"x30"

Most paintings of Florida nature are usually bright sunlight. So I seek out the rare art of lower light, and rain like the above example. This next one shows a nice place to fish at either sunrise or sundown. Hard to tell which.

The artist made a mistake with the palm tree. Can you see it? Geometry of the reflection are backwards. Tree trunk curve going in wrong direction in reflection. Still a great piece.

These are two original oils I inherited from my mother from when she was an antiques dealer. Both of these are dated to late 1800's. I have not researched the artists, but may one day sell these at auction. Both need a good cleaning after nearly 150 years.

In both of her paintings, rocks are seen. This means not Florida. So today when I find similar paintings, they can't have rocks in them! No hills. No mountains. No rocks.

This is a rare painting from an obscure Florida artist. I bought it because it happens to be a painting of one of my favorite places to fish along the St. Johns River in east central Florida which is where this one is a painting of near Little Econ River area of St. Johns River.

One day quite by accident I purchased two paintings spur of the moment grab from clearance bin. One was the Beau Redmond Lincolnville series I'll show shortly, but I purchased a watercolor painting in an old frame and had to take it apart to clean out debris between glass and painting. And inside hidden behind a worthless watercolor I found two historical gems!

In late 1800's a man named John Butler made his living as a graphics artist paintings posters and illustrations for magazines up north in New York City and Chicago. A big time famous magazine illustrator who has his own gallery displays to this day. At least two of them. But the two paintings I found are unknown works of his. Paintings he did at home. Both are dated from 1925 and 1926. I am showing my favorite here a ship on the waves. Notice the ropes in the ship's rigging.

Keep in mind this is free hand painting. John Butler had an amazingly steady hand when he could paint ropes by hand at same precise width from start to finish. Slight movements towards or away from the canvas would change rope width. John Butler's hand could do it flawlessly. A trained professional. I can't wait for both of them to hit the auction block one day. Unknown historical art coming to light. Found in a Florida thrift store clearance bin. I paid $1 for the watercolor these were hidden behind. So each painting was .33 cents. I paid .33 cents for a historic John Butler original the world has never seen before. A fabulous piece! The other painting is of misty smokey mountain scene and no where near as dramatic as this one is.

This image does not do it justice. Needs better light and without reflection in glass. There are no known at home hobby paintings from John Butler. Most of his works are professional illustrations. These may cause a stir in the art world when they go to auction. I hope so anyways.

This next one is a rare Jeronimo painting. I have found only one other similar to this one. No telling what it could bring at auction. It shows an aerial view of a village along the water. Probably painted in 1960's. This is an investment piece. The image does not do much for me. Jeronimo was a South American artist. Very few paintings from him are known to exist.

I purchased this next one for my boys. It hangs in their bedroom. They love cars, especially expensive European cars. We go to car shows all the time. I like this painting because the artist can paint to near photograph quality. It is hard to paint chrome. It is even harder to paint reflections in chrome. So I gotta hand it to this artist. Dobnak I think his name is. I consider this painting property of my sons so it will be up to them to sell or keep one day.

This is a Florida painting by M.R. Howard an unknown artist. I purchased it because it contains what is often referred as the Highway Men style.

Most of the time artists who paint palm trees in Florida nearly 99.9% of the time they are always painted standing still. The Highway Men paintings popularized painting palm tree showing wind blowing through them. And that is what is seen here in the center palm tree. There is a leftward curve to the lower branches showing a breeze is moving them. A sea breeze inland. It is rare to find artists who include wind. I need to put this one in a frame. Been slacking on art lately.

This next one is my one and only Beau Redmond. I found his phone number and called him up one day and got to speak with him about it. He had forgotten all about this painting when art galleries called on him to display his historical Lincolnville series.

I now own a piece of Florida history! This painting could bring me a pretty penny one day at auction. As I said above I tracked down the exact location it was painted at too. A lot of fun and adventure tracking Florida artists and from where they paint from and about.

Riberia St. St. Augustine Florida. An unknown Lincolnville original! Only the two buildings on the right still exist. All to the left of them in this painting are torn down and apartments built in there. But I could triangulate from the two buildings on the right to the exact precise spot Beau Redmond was when he painted this one.

This next painting I purchased at auction for under $50. This is an investment painting because the people at the auction had no clue who this artist is or was.

This is an original Edward Bishop. He still has his own website even though he has been deceased since 1997. No one knew who he was when this one went on the auction block locally. I snapped it up. Its called "Rough Seas" and is one of a kind.

https://www.edwardbishop.net/

This painting contains a skill many artists try and learn. Its called translucence. It is a difficult skill to master and many artists attempt it and fail.

It is measured in the degree of light that can pass through a wave varying in intensity at different wave thicknesses. More light shines through the water at top of the wave because its thinner. And as the wave gets wider to its base the light shining through it dims and changes in color. Artists struggle with it throughout their careers.

This entire painting by Edward Bishop was painted just for this technique and skill level. I look forward to this one going on the auction block. I removed it from its original frame because I wanted to display it on my wall, but not in the tacky gold frame it came in. I want it in a natural wood frame. I saved the original frame for auctioning it down the road.

I'll finish up this comment with a relatively new artist I am just starting to collect. I stumbled into paintings attributed to a Bernard Duggan. To this day no one can find any proof that any Bernard Duggan ever existed. Its an interested detective story behind this artist. I have spent a year or more digging into it and have come to my own conclusions based on the level of artworks to be found out there and what they are. Its commercial art or factory art in my opinion, but attributed to an old deceased cartoon artist who worked for Walt Disney in 1950's and 1960's.

I think people are getting two different Duggans mixed up. Regardless, even if this is factory art, some of his desert paintings are stunning. These are highly prized by collectors and you can find numerous offerings on auction sites starting at $50 and some going for thousands of dollars. My first Bernard Duggan is one of the largest made at 4 feet wide and 3 feet tall. This size is the most prized and most expensive. I got mine for around $12 at a thrift store. They did not know what they had or should have priced it much higher.

One thing about Bernard Duggan paintings is that throughout his career he played around with lighting. So that is what to pay attention to with Duggan paintings. What is he doing with the light? Quite often he tries to make it natural, but just as often he is painting with unnatural lighting techniques.

This first one shows a more natural lighting approach. As the sun goes down, the cactus and plants and mountains show shadow on this side which is correct. But in the next painting he switches up and paints a sundown scene with front lighting in foreground objects. Very unnatural. But it looks good hanging on the wall. These paintings jump out at you. This large one could fetch a couple thousand dollars at auction.

I recently purchased this one at auction because it was mislabeled. It was not properly identified. They had it listed as a "Duggar" painting and no one knew who or what it was. I was the only bidder on it. When the correct name is used it would be a fight for it in a bidding war. I got this one for under $25. Some of his paintings half this size sell for $400 to $500 very quickly. His prices are going up.

I'm pretty serious about my art. In 30 years I have bought and sold hundreds of paintings. And been fooled a few times and bought junk or prints I mistook for the real deal, but that is how it goes.

Kind of strange walking into my lawyer's new offices and seeing all my old paintings all around the offices now. I wish I had some of them back.

Later I'll dig up some more to post and try to include some that pertain more towards fishing and boating.

A great subject for a thread! Art is an awesome distraction from a world in turmoil. Nature hanging on my walls bring peace within.

Cool stuff! Thanks for taking the time to write that up, never really considered art collecting, but you have inspired me to get back out and scour thrift stores, used to go often, never know what you'll find.

My fishing art is old magazine covers and some folk art. I prefer images of canoe anglers, female anglers, and striking images of fish. Like F3, my home is full of art and most of it is original. Some of it thousands of years old. Unlike F3, I'm happy to own a print.:

I'll be getting a largemouth tattoo this year and I even talked the wife into getting a small one on her.

When my girlfriend and I moved into our home, she started decorating the walls with all kinds of stuff that she knew I didn’t care about. So one day I came home and these were hanging up.

@Jar11591: That girl's a keeper!

Not fishing related, but I've been an artist my whole life. I can draw everything from photo realistic to abstract. My passion lies in tattoo design. Here are some tattoo designs I drew and sold in the past.

For the past several years I have been using the services of The Antzl Project

to mark my more notable fish catches.  I have posted about this previously, but IMO, it bears repeating.

I'm not a mount or replica kind of guy, so a decent-sized digital print does it for me. 

I do like the 20 x 24 inch size on canvas, and I have several hanging in a stairwell affectionately named "Bass Alley." 

My latest addition is pictured below.

 

We also have many of the dogs we fostered & placed hanging in the lobby at the local animal shelter. 

People have done everything under the sun, and many are completely amazing.

 

The Antzl Project (run by Kevin Washburn) 

does excellent work at a reasonable rate and completes it in a timely manner.

Considerably less (time & $$) in all respects vs. a mount or replica.

There are 'several' sizes & types of material available, and these units last.

He works exclusively through FB and email, and the process is super easy.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=the antzl project

If you're thinking about it, I say go for it.

A-Jay

 

A-Jay

Is that Jeff in the bottom pic with you?

A young lady I took fishing painted this for me. I treasure the painting and the time we shared on the water.

7 hours ago, papajoe222 said:

A-Jay

Is that Jeff in the bottom pic with you?

Yes

A-Jay

I enjoyed doing this pumpkin a couple years back for Halloween:

Below is the only fishing related wall decoration in my parents house. This is called a Gyotaku print, Japanese art of fish printing, and was made 4/22/73 of a smallmouth bass caught in New Hampshire.

@Bass Rutten: That's cool and new to me; It looks like a fossil.

Here's a little info about Gyotaku courtesy of chatgpt:

Gyotaku (魚拓) is a traditional Japanese art form that dates back to the early 1800s, originally used by fishermen to record their catches before cameras were common. The actual fish is carefully inked and pressed onto paper or cloth, creating a life-size, highly detailed print that captures scale patterns, fin structure, and even scars—essentially a biological “fingerprint” of the catch.

Originally done with simple black sumi ink, modern gyotaku often uses subtle colors and calligraphy to note the species, location, date, and angler. When done properly, the process does not ruin the fish, and it was (and still is) common to eat the catch afterward. Today, gyotaku sits at the intersection of fishing, science, and art—a timeless way to preserve a memorable fish without mounting it on a wall.

Besides the normal Family photos, mostly just framed photos I have taken, nature and landscape photography is a favorite hobby of mine.

You have to really downgrade the image quality/clarity to get them to post here on the site, but you get the point.

Art by my Dad

On 1/21/2026 at 4:51 PM, Kev-mo said:

I have some random knick knacky stuff people have given me over the years. Neat crafty stuff like a “gone fishing” sign you hang on a door etc. However the only thing I would consider artwork is the needlepoint my mom made for me like 10 years ago. Truly a treasure.

That is a beautiful picture

Got lots hanging on the walls but this is my best fishing art lol. 9” Slammer and 8” Huddleston on my backbone. And you can’t see it well but also have “Bassaholic” across the top. Also have an owner st41 treble on my chest but that one has a long story to it haha

Not really “art”, but I enjoy looking at them. The back wall of my garage.

1 hour ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Not really “art”, but I enjoy looking at them. The back wall of my garage.

Sweet.

Someone needs a bigger wall.

Too bad you don't have any bass fishing skill to speak of.

Really nice.

Congrats

A-Jay

Btw, I'll admit that I was expecting to see a colorful pair of Crocs hanging up there somewhere.

2 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Btw, I'll admit that I was expecting to see a colorful pair of Crocs hanging up there somewhere.

Once he receives his new pair he’ll retire the other ones to the wall. Inside sources say these are the new footwear of @Bluebasser86

3 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

Once he receives his new pair he’ll retire the other ones to the wall. Inside sources say these are the new footwear of @Bluebasser86

Worn out pairs are retired to lawn care duty.