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Lunch or Dinner with Richard Ellis  -  Painter & Author -  in New York City

Recognized as one of America's foremost painters of marine natural history subjects, Richard’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world.

In addition to being an acclaimed wildlife artist, eloquent conservationist. conservationist, and a member of SRI’s Advisory Board, he has written more than 80 articles published in such magazines as National Geographic, Audubon, and Geo. His books include The Book of Sharks; The Book of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises; Men and Whales; Great White Shark (with John E. McCosker and Al Giddings), Physty, The True Story of a Young Whale’s Rescue; Monsters of the Sea; Deep Atlantic; The Empty Ocean, The Search for the Giant Squid; The Encyclopedia of the Sea; Tuna, a Love Story; Big Fish, On Thin Ice, The Changing World of the Polar Bear, The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean’s Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature.

Richard was recently the guest curator of Sharks! at the prestigious Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art. This landmark exhibition merged art and science in documenting the world’s never-ending fascination with these celebrated creatures of the sea. In addition to Richard’s own paintings, the show featured the work of Winslow Homer, John Singleton Copley, Charles R. Knight, Guy Harvey, Stanley Meltzoff, Pascal Lecocq, Ila Porcher and many other well-known marine artists, included sculptures by Victor Douieb and Damien Hirst, photographs by Chris Fallows, Ron and Valerie Taylor, Rodney Fox and SRI Board member David Doubilet. Also showcased were historical artifacts, sculptures in stainless steel, wood, tin, bronze, a live shark tank, movies, videos and a 50-foot-long Megalodon balloon.

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Item Special Note

Being auctioned is dinner or lunch with one the world’s foremost shark experts or celebrities. It is a unique opportunity to “talk shark” face-to-face, one-on-one, with a real authority on sharks. 

How it works:

1. Bid on a celebrity, shark scientist or conservationist that lives or works in your area, unless you are willing to drive or fly to meet them in their area.

2. The winning bidder pays for the lunch or dinner and may bring as many guests as he or she wishes.

3. We will introduce the winning bidder to the celebrity, scientist or conservationist. The two of you then set a mutually agreeable  date, time and place to meet within one year of the close of the auction.

All winning bids are charitable contributions deductible from US Federal 2013 income taxes.  Funds raised by the auction will be used to support shark research and conservation programs.