By Dr. Colleen Yarger, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Library Collections Currently on view until September 13, in the Library’s Forrest E. Mars, Sr. Exhibit Hall, is Drawn to Nature: 300 Years of Natural History Illustration. This exhibit provides a primer on the advancements in Natural History—the study of nature—and how that information was […]

By Dr. Colleen Yarger, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Library Collections This coming Sunday, March 23, 2025, the curtain closes on the National Sporting Library & Museum’s (NSLM) popular exhibition, Honoring the Point: The Gwynne McDevitt Sporting Dog Collection. Gwynne Garbisch McDevitt’s (1931–2022) transformative bequest of 86 works of art turned much of the […]

by Dr. Colleen Yarger, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Library Collections The National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM) was saddened to learn of the death of American show jumper and racehorse trainer Rodney Jenkins on December 5, 2024. Hailing from a Virginian equestrian family, Jenkins honed an innate talent for riding to become a […]

By Dr. Colleen Yarger, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Library Collections This past Tuesday, October 15th, the National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM) hosted a sold-out program featuring English fashion and documentary photographer Georgina Preston. The evening’s events revolved around Preston’s premier book, Pursuit! Having an author explain how and why a book comes […]

By Dr. Colleen Yarger, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Library Collections The National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM) takes great pride in having one of the largest, publicly accessible collections of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton’s angling masterpiece, The Compleat Angler (also spelled The Complete Angler). Currently, more than 100 different editions adorn the […]

by Dr. Colleen Yarger, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Library Collections In case you haven’t heard, the National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM) recently received a marvelous donation—The Rodney Jenkins Photography Archive. It is worth stating here, for anyone unaware of Jenkins’ (born July 3, 1944) career, that from the late 1960s until the […]

By Dr. Colleen Yarger, George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Library Collections “Wear your jacket!” I’ll be completely honest: I have a significant amount of experience with this statement. First as a child impervious to the cold; and now as a parent delivering this line—seemingly, ad nauseum—to my own temperature-resilient children. My “obsession” with jackets […]