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For the sportsman art collector who is deeply enriched by his days in the field or on the water, authenticity of mood in a painting is 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 southernmost tip of South America, to 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 awards, publications, and invitational shows.

In February 2000 The National Bird Dog Museum opened a one-man retrospective show titled The Art of Eldridge Hardie-A Celebration of the Sporting Tradition. 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. Recently named as the Atlantic Salmon Federation Artist of the Year, Hardie is a longtime supporter of sportsmen's organizations. He has also been the Trout Unlimited Artist of the Year and the National Wild Turkey Federation Sponsor Artist, and his designs have been chosen for the Texas Wild Turkey and Quail Stamps. -- His work appears regularly in Gray's Sporting Journal, Fly Fishing in Saltwaters, Sporting Classics, and Pointing Dog Journal. His career has been profiled in Wildlife Art News, and Southwest Art. He has illustrated numerous books, most recently Jose Ortega y Gasset's classic Meditations on Hunting and Michael McIntosh's Shotguns and Shooting, and he has painted covers for two Roderick Haig-Brown books.

Eldridge Hardie carries on the special heritage of artists such has Homer, Frost, Pleissner, Benson, and Ripley, who intimately know outdoor sport.