About the Artist
Born in 1944, Bud grew up in Garden City, Long Island, the eldest son of the renowned sporting artist, Milton C. Weiler, and the brother of the wildlife sculptor, Dale Weiler. Surrounded in his youth by sporting art, fly fishing, wing shooting and other outdoor activities, Bud developed lifelong interests in these areas – which come through in his work.
As a boy, Bud was tutored by some of the greats in the world of sporting art. He regularly watched his father at work in his studio, occasionally submitting his own work for Milt Weiler’s scrutiny. But Paul Brown and Lynn Bogue Hunt (each masters in their respective fields of sporting art) were also close friends of Bud’s father, and both gentlemen agreed to teach young Weiler ‘a thing or two about painting and drawing’.
Undeterred by his father’s warnings that ‘an artist’s life meant having to endure years of starvation’, Bud continued his art studies throughout secondary school and college, gaining extensive experience in mechanical and engineering drawing, oil and watercolor painting, and sketching in pencil and pen & ink. It was college, studying three years under James Penney, where Bud’s work first began to appear in shows, on the covers of school publications, and in the private collections of school faculty.
Upon graduating college, Bud served in the Navy as an engineering officer on a destroyer. While on board, LT(jg) Weiler was assigned the collateral duty of acting ’ship’s artist ’- changing his media and subject matter to pen & ink scenes of destroyer life. The service, however, taught Bud a lesson on the practicality of attempting to both raise a family and indulge his sporting passions on a meager income, and he decided to pursue a career in the securities industry - a choice which afforded him both.
With family grown, Bud decided to make use of the artistic gift he inherited from his father and return to the world of painting. Since making this decision he has already completed a number of commissions. Bud’s paintings are as unique in their authenticity as they are in subjects and settings about which the artist is passionate. His work offers a glimpse of the world through the artist’s eye – landscape, sporting scene and still life depicting spontaneous moments of fleeting beauty, nostalgia and drama.