Judges decided the winner of the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp contest on Friday, September 19th. I watched the livestream, along with about 1,700 other fans. James Hautman’s acrylic painting of three ...

An acrylic painting of buffleheads in flight by James Hautman of Chaska, Minnesota, won the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. The image will be featured on the 2026-27 Federal Migratory Bird ...

X Facebook Reddit WETLANDS CONSERVATION-- Joseph Hautman of Plymouth, Minn., won the 2011 Federal Duck Stamp Contest on Saturday with his acrylic painting of a single wood duck. Hautman has previously ...

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 ...

James Hautman has established a duck dynasty. Hautman, an artist from Chaska, a Twin Cities suburb, is the winner of the 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in ...

ALBORN — In the hit movie "Fargo," sheriff Marge has to console her wildlife artist husband Norm after he loses the federal duck stamp art competition to the Hautman brothers, a real-life triumvirate ...

A painting of a gadwall by Boiling Springs artists Gerald Putt tied for fifth in the recent Federal Duck Stamp Contest. Boiling Springs wildlife artist Gerald Putt's painting of a gadwall tied for ...

MADISON (WKOW) — An Oregon High School student was awarded Best in Show at the Wisconsin Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest. A news release from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said 16-year-old Sarah ...

Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or Duck Stamp, which will go on sale in late June 2026.