| "Held Tight" - Eldridge Hardie 14"x21" print, limited to 200 $200.00 |
For the sportsman art
collector who is deeply
enriched by his days in the
field or on the water,
authenticity of mood and
action in a painting are
crucial. The quarry, the
texture of the landscape, the
weather, light, and season,
the people and dogs, the
boats all are familiar and
treasured elements. Eldridge
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 this country,
are joined with his artistic
ability to make sporting
moments live in his pictures.
That he is at the top of his
profession is acknowledged
by a long list of honors.
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," he
says.
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. He
has made Denver his home
since 1968.
In February 2000 The
National Bird Dog Museum
honored Hardie with its first
ever one-man retrospective
show titled The Art of
Eldridge Hardie-A
Celebration of the Sporting
Tradition.In 2008, he
participated in the Prix de
West Invitational Art
Exhibition and Sale at the
National Cowboy and
Western Heritage Museum.
Also, The National Museum
of Wildlife Art, the
Gilcrease Museum, the
American Museum of Fly
Fishing, and the Artists of
America Show have
included Hardie's work in
invitational exhibits. He was
the inaugural Trout
Unlimited Artist of the Year
in 1978 and was named the
Atlantic Salmon Federation
Artist of the Year in 1994.
Ducks Unlimited and the
National Wild Turkey
Federation have
commissioned Hardie to
produce limited edition
prints for their fund-raising
art, and five of his designs
have been chosen for the
Texas Upland Bird, Wild
Turkey and Quail Stamps.
His work has appeared
frequently in Shooting
Sportsman, Gray's Sporting
Journal, Fly Fishing in Salt
Waters, Double Gun
Journal, Sporting Classics,
and Pointing Dog Journal.
His career has been profiled
in Wildlife Art News, and
Southwest Art. He has
illustrated more than fifteen
books, among them, José
Ortega y Gasset's classic
Meditations on Hunting and
Michael McIntosh's
Shotguns & Shooting, and
he has painted covers for
two Roderick Haig-Brown
books. Eldridge Hardie
carries on the special
heritage of artists Winslow
Homer, A. B. Frost, Ogden
Pleissner, Frank Benson,
and A. Lassell Ripley, who
intimately knew outdoor
sport.
Eldridge Hardie sums up his
long career by saying, "I was
born to hunt, fish, and make
art about these passions."
collector who is deeply
enriched by his days in the
field or on the water,
authenticity of mood and
action in a painting are
crucial. The quarry, the
texture of the landscape, the
weather, light, and season,
the people and dogs, the
boats all are familiar and
treasured elements. Eldridge
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 this country,
are joined with his artistic
ability to make sporting
moments live in his pictures.
That he is at the top of his
profession is acknowledged
by a long list of honors.
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," he
says.
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. He
has made Denver his home
since 1968.
In February 2000 The
National Bird Dog Museum
honored Hardie with its first
ever one-man retrospective
show titled The Art of
Eldridge Hardie-A
Celebration of the Sporting
Tradition.In 2008, he
participated in the Prix de
West Invitational Art
Exhibition and Sale at the
National Cowboy and
Western Heritage Museum.
Also, The National Museum
of Wildlife Art, the
Gilcrease Museum, the
American Museum of Fly
Fishing, and the Artists of
America Show have
included Hardie's work in
invitational exhibits. He was
the inaugural Trout
Unlimited Artist of the Year
in 1978 and was named the
Atlantic Salmon Federation
Artist of the Year in 1994.
Ducks Unlimited and the
National Wild Turkey
Federation have
commissioned Hardie to
produce limited edition
prints for their fund-raising
art, and five of his designs
have been chosen for the
Texas Upland Bird, Wild
Turkey and Quail Stamps.
His work has appeared
frequently in Shooting
Sportsman, Gray's Sporting
Journal, Fly Fishing in Salt
Waters, Double Gun
Journal, Sporting Classics,
and Pointing Dog Journal.
His career has been profiled
in Wildlife Art News, and
Southwest Art. He has
illustrated more than fifteen
books, among them, José
Ortega y Gasset's classic
Meditations on Hunting and
Michael McIntosh's
Shotguns & Shooting, and
he has painted covers for
two Roderick Haig-Brown
books. Eldridge Hardie
carries on the special
heritage of artists Winslow
Homer, A. B. Frost, Ogden
Pleissner, Frank Benson,
and A. Lassell Ripley, who
intimately knew outdoor
sport.
Eldridge Hardie sums up his
long career by saying, "I was
born to hunt, fish, and make
art about these passions."
| "Autumn Wings, Canada Geese" - Eldridge Hardie 16"x22" print, limited to 650 $100.00 |
| "Chance for a Double, Ruffed Grouse" - Eldridge Hardie 14"x21" print, limited to 200 $200.00 |
| "Cutthroat Trout and Flies" - Eldridge Hardie 13"x17" print, limited to 1500 $50.00 |
| "Early Limit, Artist Proof" - Eldridge Hardie 16"x24" print, limited to 60 $150.00 |
| "End of Season, Brown Trout" - Eldridge Hardie 16"x22" print, limited to 650 $100.00 |
| "Grouse Point" - Eldridge Hardie 14"x21" print, limited to 200 $200.00 |
| "In Rough Country, 2002 Texas Quail Stamp" - Eldridge Hardie 6.5"x9" print, limited to 100 $150.00 with signed stamp |
| "November Covey, Bobwhite Quail" - Eldridge Hardie 16"x22" print, limited to 450 $100.00 |
| "On Santee Marsh" - Eldridge Hardie 14"x21" print, limited to 100 $300.00 |
| "On the Flats" - Eldridge Hardie 14"x21" print, limited to 200 $200.00 |
| "Quail Dogs" - Eldridge Hardie 14"x21" print, limited to 200 $200.00 |
| "Ready to Run, 2007 Texas Upland Bird Stamp" - Eldridge Hardie 6.5"x9" print, limited to 100 $150.00 with signed stamp |
| "1992 Texas Quail Stamp Print" - Eldridge Hardie 6.5"x9" print, limited to 100 $150.00 with signed stamp |
| (Black borders are not on actual print) |
