GRAND FORKS — When Chuck Black graduated from UND in 2010 with a degree in wildlife biology, the idea of merging his passion for the outdoors and his passion for art into a career as a wildlife artist ...

Montana artist Chuck Black won the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp art contest with an oil painting of a northern pintail. His tight rendition of a pintail drake on the water of a marsh topped 198 other ...

Sep. 23—DES MOINES, Iowa. — After two days of competition, Chuck Black of Belgrade, Montana, emerged as the winner of the with an oil painting of a northern pintail, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Chuck Black, of Belgrade, Mont., near Bozeman, won the distinguished contest for the 2024-25 stamp with his painting of a northern pintail. Ironically, Black grew up in Stillwater, sketching waterfowl ...

As soon as Stillwater native Chuck Black saw the single pintail duck land in a small pothole in the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southern Montana, he knew he had hit the jackpot. Black, ...

It was a chance encounter with a northern pintail drake that made Chuck Black’s lifelong dream come true. That dream: to win the Federal Duck Stamp art contest and have his painting in the pocket of ...

Adam Grimm of Wallace, South Dakota, placed second with an acrylic painting of a northern pintail pair, and Gerald Mobley of Claremore, Oklahoma, took third with an acrylic of a northern pintail.

MISSOULA, Mont. — A Belgrade artist has won the2023 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. Chuck Black’s oil painting will be made into the 2024-2025 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or ...