Starting in 2025, AMFF has committed to producing one exhibition catalog each year, beginning with Reflections: The Angler and Nature in Art. The purpose of the exhibition catalog program is to preserve all the curatorial efforts and insights that go into creating our exhibits, and to make them accessible for generations to come while we continue to explore new historical angles as part of our changing exhibitions program.
Reflections was born out of the Trophy Art Collection, donated to the museum by Mike Monier in 2019. The collection includes more than 200 works of North American art and spans nearly two centuries of art and angling history. The exhibit features over 30 of those artworks, displayed chronologically and thoughtfully juxtaposed with the material culture and tools prominent of their era, as a way to explore how sporting art has chronicled the ever-changing connections with nature shared by communities across America from the nineteenth century to today.
Table of Contents:
- Part I: Restoration and Sense of Place in the Nineteenth Century
- Part II: Identity in the Early Twentieth Century
- Part III: Autonomy and Purpose in the Mid-Twentieth Century
- Part IV: Harmony in the Late-Twentieth and Early-Twenty-First Century
The first-edition catalog will be numbered and made exclusively for AMFF members at the Collector Edition level. After the first edition has been printed and delivered, a second edition of the catalog will be available for pre-order in late 2025.
