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Eldridge Hardie
Southeastern Wildlife Exposition is proud to announce that Eldridge Hardie has been chosen as the Featured Artist for the 2011 event. A well-respected artist in the genre, Hardie has been called one of the most accomplished and completely skilled sporting artists of the contemporary era by Sporting Classics senior editor Tom Davis.
Authenticity of mood and action in a painting are crucial, and Hardie's own bird hunting and fly fishing pursuits, which have taken him from Canada to the Caribbean, the southernmost tip of South America, Scotland, and all across the U.S., are beautifully married with his artistic ability to make sporting moments live in his work.
Hardie’s work has appeared frequently in publications including Garden & Gun, Sporting Classics, Gray's Sporting Journal, Fly Fishing in Salt Waters, Shooting Sportsman, and Pointing Dog Journal, and his career has been profiled in Wildlife Art News and Southwest Art. In a Gray's Sporting Journal review of the book The Paintings of Eldridge Hardie—Art of a Life in Sport, Christopher Camuto calls the artist "as good as any painter alive in depicting not only the beauty of nature but also the subtle psychological tug in any fishing or hunting scene. Eldridge Hardie gets it," Camuto wrote.
“As the SEWE 2010 Featured Artist, I soon came to realize that this event was something any wildlife and sporting artist would not want to miss,” said Luke Frazier. “Eldridge Hardie is an artist I’ve always looked up to and admired, and he’s a lot like me in that he lives the life he portrays in his paintings. First hand observations are key in producing quality sporting and wildlife art, and I’m sure he will produce something special for the Expo next year.”
Hardie was born in 1940 on a small ranch near Boerne, Texas. In 1964 he graduated first in his class with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Fine Art at Washington University in Saint Louis, and he has lived in Denver since 1968. He sums up his long career by saying, "I was born to hunt, fish, and make art about these passions." His passion and his talent are evident in every piece of his work, and we could not be more pleased to welcome him for Southeastern Wildlife Exposition 2011.
Artist Hometown: Denver, CO
Artist's Website: Eldridge Hardie
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