 The NSLM's inaugural exhibition was based on the 2008 book "Animal & Sporting Artists in America" by F. Turner Reuter, Jr. "Animal & Sporting Artists in America" was published by the National Sporting Library in 2009 and included an encyclopedic listing of over 2,300 animal and sporting artists who produced work in North America.Reuter served as guest curator for the exhibition, which featured works by many notable sporting an animal artists, including John James Audubon, Edward Troye, and Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait.The exhibition opened on October 8, 2011 and closed May 10, 2012.