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"When Chet was only 28, eking a living as an animal illustrator in New York he visited the prestigious Manhattan gallery, Sporting Gallery & Bookshelf.

Painter Chet Reneson in his home in Lyme, Connecticut. At 85 years, Chet Reneson of Lyme, Connecticut, who has for decades perched on the pinnacle of sporting art, is still on his game with more commissions than he can handle. Chet Reneson stands for a portrait in the studio of his home. Hanging in the background are two of his paintings.

Starting next year the stamp, which funds conservation and purchase of waterfowl habitat, will feature the winning artwork from the Connecticut Junior Duck Stamp Competition, open to youngsters from kindergarten through high school. It was the first art by a Connecticut artist to appear on the stamp since the stamp started featuring art in Reneson had submitted it, unsuccessfully, to the federal waterfowl stamp competition in shortly after graduating from the University of Hartford Art School, dead broke.

The painting shows two surf scoter sea ducks flying over water.

America's most popular sporting watercolorist, Chet Reneson grew up with gundogs and gamebirds on a small Connecticut farm where he made his own boats and.

Before submitting, he added one addition into the scene, tailoring it for Connecticut. On the horizon behind the ducks he painted the Old Saybrook breakwater and lighthouse at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Reneson and his wife, Penny, stand in the dining room of the home. It was fitting. Of all the places he has visited and painted, says Reneson, his life and work have been shaped most by the estuary of the Connecticut.

Reneson paints from experience and his leathery face, etched by the outdoors, reflects it. Life on the River molded his feeling for wildlife and the outdoors.