R.M. Jenkins
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Ron Jenkins is an American wildlife artist known for his detailed, naturalistic depictions of birds and other outdoor subjects rendered in a realist style typical of mid-to-late twentieth century American sporting and nature art. Jenkins was born on August 18, 1932 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and then was raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, attending the Philadelphia Museum School of Art during the 1954-1955 academic year before family responsibilities led him to set aside formal art training for a time. He has been active and based in Montana and Pennsylvania throughout much of his career.
Jenkins built a reputation as a dedicated illustrator of game birds, waterfowl, and other wildlife, working in oil as well as printmaking media. He illustrated a number of stories for the Pennsylvania Game News and the Pennsylvania Angler, and his work has also appeared in National Geographic magazine and Modern Game Breeding magazine. His skill in rendering waterfowl with scientific accuracy and artistic sensitivity earned him recognition in the competitive world of conservation stamp design: he was chosen for the 1965-1966 Federal Duck Stamp with a design of canvasbacks, and decades later in 1980 he won the third annual Montana Bird Stamp Design contest with his Whistlers' or Barrows Goldeneyes, produced in both a reproduction edition and a hand-colored stone lithograph edition. He continued to be honored into the 1990s, when in 1993 he was selected as the First of State for the Rhode Island Trout Conservation Stamp with a work depicting a brook trout during a caddis hatch.
Jenkins's standing among collectors rests on this combination of technical draftsmanship, ornithological accuracy, and his track record within the respected niche of wild
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