"Black Duck Hideaway" Nevada duck stamp winner Guy Crittenden's 4th Virginia Duck

Guy Crittenden's 4th Virginia Duck Stamp is entitled

Marshes and Mountains

The beauty of that day was seared forever in my memory

framed in traditional gold and available for $750

Crittenden Studio has a very limited number of Artist Proof prints available

"Black Duck Hideaway" Nevada duck stamp winner Guy Crittenden's 4th Virginia DuckI grew up believing the Black Duck was the most coveted prize of all waterfowl. If you grew up hunting on the East Coast of North America, you would probably have the same sentiments about this wary bird. This painting was inspired by a place called "Blackwater Refuge" on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The area holds thousands of black ducks in the winter, but you would never know it. They find the most remote creeks, ponds and lowgrounds and