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Images on cards are the same as in the stated Print unless otherwise noted and shown in italics.Quoted sizes are approximate

Print or Image used on Card
Description of Card
Other Comments

GARY HODGES OFFICIAL CHRISTMAS CARDS (Produced for his use)

Polar Bear Swimming

1992 card.  The image later released as a print in 1999.

Image first used on Greenpeace poster in 1990.

Humpback Whales

1993 card.  The image embraces the whole card.  Unfolded, 45 x 15 cm.

 

Iberian Wolves – Hope for the Future

1994 card.  The image has a gold coloured surround.  20 x 22 cm.

 

Jaff

1995 card.  The image has a light blue coloured surround.    23 x 22 cm.

The year that Jaff died.

1989 Tigers

1996 card.  The image embraces the whole card.  Unfolded, 43 x 17 cm.

 

Elephants africains (French release)

1997 card.  The image embraces the whole card.  Unfolded, 28 x 22 cm.

 

Pride and Joy

1998 card.  The image embraces the whole card.  Unfolded, 30 x 21 cm.

 

1990 Hippo

1999 card.  The image embraces the whole card.  Unfolded, 38 x 15 cm.

 

Snowleopard

2000 card.  The image embraces the whole card and is reversed.  Unfolded, 67.5 x 11 cm.

 

Jaguar
(Landscape)

2001 card.  The image embraces the whole card and is folded in three.  Unfolded, 67.0 x 14 cm.

 

A number of additional copies of some the above cards were produced in blank form i.e. without the Christmas greeting.  They have been used by Gary as personal “notelets” and/or sold for the benefit of conservation groups at exhibitions, showings etc.

GARY HODGES POSTCARDS (Produced for his own personal use)

Bengal Tigress and Cub

A cropped version of the 1994 square, portrait, print.

Produced 1999.

Plea for the Rain Forest

Same as the1999 print.

Produced 1999.

Polar Bear

The full Polar Bear picture from which the cropped “Bearback” print was taken.

Produced 1999.  The card has been sold in aid of EIA, Born Free and other conservation groups.

Polar Bear Swimming

Same as the 1999 print.

Produced 1999.

BORN FREE GREETINGS CARDS

Asian Elephants

The 1993 print, with pale yellow surround.  14˝ x 15˝ cm.

Card produced for use 1991/92.

Dreamtime

The 1998 print, with pale yellow surround.  14˝ x 15˝ cm.

Card produced for use 1991/92.

George Adamson with Boy and Christian

Same as the 1990 print, produced for Zoo Check (later Born Free).  21 x 14 cm.

Produced at same time as the print.

E.I.A. POSTCARDS

Black Rhinoceros with Oxpeckers

Same as 1993 print.

In use from 1992.

Brown Bear Cub

Same as the 1994 print – bear cub lying down.

 

Fennec Fox

Same as the 1994 print.

 

Young Serval

Same as the 1993 print.

 

MEDICI GALLERY CARDS

Brown Bear Cub

1995 print – knee up to nose.  Folding card, blank content.

Sold 1992. *

Friends

1995 print.  The invitation card to an exhibition of Gary’s drawings at the Medici Gallery, April/May 1991.  20˝ x 15 cm.

 

Friends

1995 print.  Folding card, blank content.

Sold 1991. *

Jackass Penguin Group

1997 print – group of 4.  Folding card, blank content.

Sold 1992. *

* Produced and sold by the Medici Gallery as blank notelets/greetings cards.

WWF CHRISTMAS CARDS

Brown Bear Cubs

The same image as the 1991 print of the 2 bear cubs.  16 x 11˝ cm.

Christmas card 1990/91.

Whilst it is the same image, the card and the print (released later) were produced from 2 completely separate drawings.  Small differences can be noted.

Elephants africains (French release)

The 1989 print used by the WWF as a Christmas card in 1989.

 

Jackass Penguin

Very similar to the 1992 Jackass Penguin print, but not the same.  The image has a pale blue line round it and is on creamy white card.  13˝ x 19˝ cm.  Christmas card 1990.

This image won the 1990 WWF Fine Art Award.

Jaguar

Same as the 1990 square print.    16 x 11˝ cm.  Christmas card 1990/91.

 

Mother’s Love

Same as the 1995 print.   11˝ x 16 cm.  Christmas card 1990/91.

 

Polar Bear

The full Polar bear picture from which the cropped “Bearback” print was taken – same as the Gary Hodges postcard above.  16 x 11˝ cm.  Christmas card 1990/91.

 

OTHERS

African Elephants

The 1988 family group of 4 print with the image reversed.  The image embraces the whole card.  Unfolded, 29˝ x 19 cm.

Used in 1999 as a greetings card by a Group who have financially supported Born Free and the EIA..

Jaguar

Released by Greenpeace as a Greetings Card in 1988/9

The Jaguar imsge used is not one released as a limited edition and is believed to be a colour drawing.

Balancing Act

As in the 1999 print.   12˝ x 12˝ cm.

Used as a Christmas card, c1995/6, by The Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness.

Cheetah

The tall 1991 print on the 1994 Mall Galleries Gary Hodges solo exhibition invitation card.  A single-sided, non-folding card.   15 x 22 cm.

 

Cheetah and Serval

The tall Cheetah (1991) and tall Serval (1995) included side by side, with gold coloured surround.    16 x  25 cm.

Used by Gary as a notelet/ greetings card 1995/96.

Chimpanzee

The 1990 print.

Used as a postcard by Born Free 1990/91.

Polar Bear Swimming

The image in the 1999 print but taken from the original image on the 1990 Greenpeace poster.  (Image on the card shows Gary’s signature in bottom left corner.) 15 x 21 cm.

EIA Greetings card.

Polar bear Swimming

The image in the 1999 print.   15 x 21 cm.

Nature In Art Greetings card 1999.

Tender Moment

Original version of the drawing released as a print 1999.  A non-folding card in the style of a postcard.  15 x 10 cm.

For the 1989 Robin des Bois exhibition in Paris.  One version includes the exhibition details and represents the invitation card and a second version is simply a blank postcard.

All the information on this page has been researched, collated and kindly supplied by Tony Belcher