{"product_id":"john-tolmay-gone-with-the-wind","title":"John Tolmay -Gone with the Wind","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info\"\u003eJohn Tolmay\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info auto-hyphens ng-scope\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ng-binding\"\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info auto-hyphens ng-scope\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ng-binding\"\u003eBull Elephant\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info ng-binding ng-scope\"\u003ebronze edition of 15\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info ng-binding ng-scope\"\u003e15h x 14w x 26L in \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info ng-binding ng-scope\"\u003e$8,400\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Shipping Consultant will Call you with a Shipping Quote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"single-piece-desc\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"single-piece-desc\"\u003eBronze Africa ‘Gone with the Wind’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"single-piece-body\"\u003eThe Elephant has been on the turntable for over 18 months and only now am I ready to send him to the Foundry. He is my attempt to depict one of the giants that roamed East Africa at the turn of the 19th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"single-piece-body\"\u003eThis gene pool was nearly hunted to extinction all over the continent. These big tuskers were not a rarity in East Africa and in fact they were the norm. A friend, Bill Malik, who was born in Kenya and now lives in LA was in Kenya when big tuskers were still being hunted. His Grandfather took a bull with 165 pounds on each side. What I have depicted in my sculpture does not weigh in like that. Those big tusks were found in animals that were able to carry ivory more than a total inside the head and outside of 12 feet or near 3 meters if you like. Some of those tusks measured 25 inches and more around the circumference of the tusk at the lip. The biggest ivory I took with Mike Aldersey measured a mere 16 inches round at the lip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"single-piece-body\"\u003eSo in effect if I am to pay homage to those magnificent bulls I need to revise upwards and not downwards!!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"single-piece-desc\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Tolmay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in Southern Rhodesia in 1943, John Tolmay grew up immersed in the African bush, where an early fascination with wildlife and nature inspired him to begin drawing his observations. After agricultural college in South Africa, he traveled to Europe and the United States, working as a cowboy in Nebraska and New Mexico before returning to Rhodesia in 1966 to ranch.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTolmay began guiding African hunting safaris in 1974, an experience that gave him an intimate understanding of wildlife, movement, and anatomy - knowledge that would later become fundamental to his work as a sculptor. He completed and sold his first bronze in 1989 and has since devoted himself to capturing the animals and experiences of a lifetime spent in the wild.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA committed conservationist as well as an artist, Tolmay founded Zambia's Nyawa Pilot Project, promoting community-based wildlife management and a sustainable relationship between rural communities and their natural resources.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Banovich Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67608776114421,"sku":null,"price":8400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0014\/8779\/8331\/files\/gone-with-the-wind-01.jpg?v=1790980897","url":"https:\/\/shop.johnbanovich.com\/products\/john-tolmay-gone-with-the-wind","provider":"Banovich Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}