{"product_id":"john-tolmay-grevys-zebra","title":"John Tolmay - Grevy's Zebra","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info\"\u003eJohn Tolmay\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info auto-hyphens ng-scope\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ng-binding\"\u003eGrevy's Zebra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info auto-hyphens ng-scope\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ng-binding\"\u003eFemale Zebra with a young colt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info ng-binding ng-scope\"\u003ebronze edition of 20 NEW PIECE Sculpted in 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info ng-binding ng-scope\"\u003e15h x 11w x 17L in \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"artwork-info ng-binding ng-scope\"\u003e$ 7,800\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\u003ch3 class=\"single-piece-desc\"\u003eBronze Africa ‘Grevy’s Zebra’\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI was commissioned by the CEO of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wildlifepartners.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eWildlife Partners\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eto sculpt a Grevy’s Zebra – an undertaking that soon revealed itself to be one of the greatest challenges of my career. While I can recognize a male Burchell’s Zebra from two hundred yards, the Grevy’s is a far more complex and elusive subject. With its refined anatomy, long slender nose, and delicate mouth, it demanded months of work, including several complete restarts, before I was satisfied that I had captured its essence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the greatest challenge lay not in the form, but in the stripes. How could one honor the stark beauty of black and white in bronze? My patinair, Jimmy Hill, developed a method I believe has never been tried before: first turning the bronze entirely black with ferric oxide, then applying a layer of white oxide over it. Once cooled, the white was carefully removed from the raised stripes, revealing the striking pattern you see here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Grevy’s Zebra is not only Africa’s rarest zebra, it is also one of its most endangered species, found only in small, fragile populations in northern Kenya and Ethiopia. Few travelers will ever see one in the wild, and fewer still will encounter it in bronze. This piece therefore represents something truly uncommon – both in subject matter and in technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis commission also reflects a shared philosophy. At the core of Wildlife Partners is a commitment to conserving rare wildlife from around the world, with a deep emphasis on Africa. My own values are rooted in conservation through hunting and art, using sculpture to immortalize the very animals we seek to protect. In this way, Wildlife Partners and I are natural allies: they conserve the living animal, while I preserve its spirit in bronze. Together, both the Grevy’s Zebra in the wild and the one captured here in sculpture become part of the same story of conservation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the collector of rare African wildlife art, this Grevy’s Zebra stands as both a tribute to one of the continent’s most endangered animals and a testament to the art of pushing bronze to its limits.\u003c\/p\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\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Tolmay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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":67608304287989,"sku":null,"price":7800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0014\/8779\/8331\/files\/grevys-zebra-01.jpg?v=1790973364","url":"https:\/\/shop.johnbanovich.com\/products\/john-tolmay-grevys-zebra","provider":"Banovich Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}