Eldridge Hardie (American 1940-2021) An English Pointer Pup graphite on paper signed lower right - image 3 x 5" 13 x 15" as framed. Ex. William Secord Gallery NY- Hardie received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the School of Fine Art at Washington University in St. Louis in 1964. He has made Colorado his home for 40 years. Hardie is well known to collectors of fine sporting art. He was honored with the first ever one-man retrospective exhibit at The National Bird Dog Museum. He has exhibited at Artists of America, Great American Artists, the Gilcrease Museum, The C. M. Russell Museum, The Wildlife Experience Museum, The National Museum of Wildlife Art, and the American Museum of Fly Fishing. The Paintings of Eldridge Hardie – Art of a Life in Sport, a book spanning four decades of the artist’s career was published in 2002. Here is an example of the unanimously enthusiastic critical acclaim it has received. “This excellent album of paintings is proof enough that Eldridge Hardie is 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 and he’s put it on canvas for all to enjoy in a truly important body of work,”

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