Come See Nature in a Whole New Way
Join Easton Native, Artist/Author/Naturalist

JAMES PROSEK

For a talk about his art and thoughts on
“Trespassing and Conservation”

Live at the Westport Library
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 6

New Member Offer!
Join Aspetuck Land Trust now and get a FREE copy of James Prosek’s international bestseller, Trout: An Illustrated History, when you register and attend his lecture at the Westport Library on April 6th.
CLICK HERE!

James Prosek made his authorial debut while studying at Yale. Trout: an Illustrated History, (Alfred A. Knopf) featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America,  and is widely recognized as having brought attention to the existence and plight of native trout. 11 books followed for adults and children alike including Art, Artifact, Artifice, (Yale University Art Gallery) Ocean Fishes, (Rizzoli) Bird, Butterfly, Eel, (Simon and Schuster Books) , Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso (Harper) and as well as articles for The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine.

Prosek’s work has been shown at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY, Gerald Peters Gallery, NY and Santa Fe, The Royal Academy of Arts in London, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, The Yale Center for British Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, He has been an artist-in-residence at numerous institutions, including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Addison Gallery of American Art, with solo exhibitions at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, The Addison Gallery of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Buffalo Bill Center of the West, The North Carolina Museum of Art and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC among others. 

James Prosek is a supporter of Aspetuck Land Trust and a great friend.