Maryland DNR Announces 2024-2025 Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest Winner
Towson Artist Wins fiftieth and Final Design Contest
Jim Taylor’s illustration, “May They Always Fly,” gained the fiftieth Annual Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest. Image courtesy Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is happy to announce that Jim Taylor of Towson gained the 50th Annual Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest. Taylor is now considered one of two six-time winners.
“Congratulations to Mr. Taylor and all participants who took part in this years contest,” Wildlife and Heritage Service Director Karina Stonesifer mentioned. “Artists from all over the country entered our final contest and we want to express our great appreciation and gratitude to all of the artists through the 50 years of this contest for their participation and support.”
Taylor gained the 2024-2025 contest together with his stunning rendition of a pair of American black geese flying over the marsh, titled “May They Always Fly.”
This contest was the ultimate Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design contest, because the bodily stamp is not required or produced. The Department of Natural Resources will produce a restricted run of fiftyth Anniversary commemorative decals in 2024 depicting this paintings.
“I am so proud to have my acrylic painting of black ducks judged as the winner for the 50th Anniversary and the last Maryland waterfowl stamp competition,” Taylor mentioned. “My first Maryland duck stamp painting entry was in 1982 and I have been fortunate since then to be a six-time Maryland duck stamp winning artist joining the late David Turnbaugh as the only other six-time Maryland winner.”
Taylor is a Maryland native from Kent County, the place he first developed his love for portray waterfowl and different wildlife. He is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. Reporters concerned about talking with Taylor can attain him at [email protected].
Going ahead, in place of an hooked up bodily stamp, anybody hunting migratory game birds should possess a printed receipt displaying proof of buy of the Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp.
