LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — Ed Van Put and his wife Judy will give a presentation at Morgan Outdoors, 46 Main St., on Sunday, November 11, at 3 p.m. It will focus on artists who have fished the Catskills and the art found in fly fishing. Judy will present the program and explain how fishing and art often overlapped, after which Ed will answer questions, either on the subject or on fishing in general.

The Catskill Mountains have played a dual role in American history: they not only attracted our country’s earliest and foremost trout fishermen but also many of our first and finest artists. The presentation focuses primarily on the artists from the Hudson River School of landscape painters, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand and Worthington Whittredge. Their paintings brought the public closer to nature and as such, spurred tourism and an appreciation of the environment.

Ed is the author of “Trout Fishing in the Catskills,” a comprehensive history of Catskill fishing; and “The Beaverkill: The History of a River and its People,” both of which will be available for sale and signed by the author.