{"id":980,"date":"2009-05-15T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T20:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2009\/05\/15\/legacy-artworks\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T22:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T02:02:41","slug":"legacy-artworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/980","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Artworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I now offer personalized watercolor artworks<\/a> created by hand to commemorate highlights from any adventure experience, including a milestone hunt, trek, climb, dive, eco-trip, research mission, or sea voyage. My archival-quality originals are executed to reflect the \u201cgolden age of expedition-style illustration.\u201d<\/p>\n

I met Maria at the Safari Club International dinner. She won a commission through the silent auction held that evening. It took her a year to decide precisely how my donation should be redeemed. It took me even longer to deliver the finished work. <\/p>\n

Six years after a hunt in Zimbabwe marked by disappointment and sadness, she had returned to the continent with a highly successful safari in South Africa. Ultimately, she trusted me to appropriately interpret her personal triumph.<\/p>\n

This piece signifies a breakthrough in my long journey as a traditional illustrator that began with the home-study Course for Talented Young People<\/em> in the 1960s. I wish some of my former instructors could see it.
\nMaria Eckerle Safari by John Andrew Dixon<\/a><\/p>\n

Maria Eckerle Safari (detail) by John Andrew Dixon<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMaria Eckerle Safari<\/em><\/strong> (+detail)
\nJohn Andrew Dixon
\nInk, watercolor, colored pencil
\n14 x 11 inches, 2009
\nCollection of Maria Eckerle
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I now offer personalized watercolor artworks created by hand to commemorate highlights from any adventure experience, including a milestone hunt, trek, climb, dive, eco-trip, research mission, or sea voyage. My archival-quality originals are executed to reflect the \u201cgolden age of expedition-style illustration.\u201d I met Maria at the Safari Club International dinner. She won a commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,26,57,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}