{"id":1788222,"date":"2020-01-21T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788222"},"modified":"2020-01-21T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:30:17","slug":"an-update-on-anton-thomass-map-of-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/an-update-on-anton-thomass-map-of-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on Anton Thomas\u2019s Map of North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The hand-drawn map of North America: Portrait of a Continent\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YpJJKy-vHKI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antonthomasart.com\/the-north-american-continent.html\">Anton Thomas\u2019s pictorial map of North America<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/the-north-american-continent-a-pictorial-map-by-anton-thomas\/\">previously<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antonthomasart.com\/blog-recent\/how-do-you-finish-a-map\">is now complete<\/a>, and he\u2019ll be selling gicl\u00e9e prints and posters from his website soon. (I know <em>exactly<\/em> where mine will be going.) In the above <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YpJJKy-vHKI\">video<\/a>, he looks at the multiyear process of creating the map\u2014on paper, with pencils and pen, and how he had to correct and redraw (the inked parts!) as he went. Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/north-america-big-map\">an interview he did with <em>Atlas Obscura<\/em><\/a>\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Thomas\u2019s pictorial map of North America (previously) is now complete, and he\u2019ll be selling gicl\u00e9e prints and posters from his website soon. (I know exactly where mine will be going.) In the above video,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/an-update-on-anton-thomass-map-of-north-america\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1282,555,460],"class_list":["post-1788222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-anton-thomas","tag-north-america","tag-pictorial-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788597,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/preorders-open-for-anton-thomass-north-america-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788222,"position":0},"title":"Preorders Open for Anton Thomas&#8217;s North America Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"It\u2019s been years in the making, but prints of Anton Thomas\u2019s pictorial map, North America: Portrait of a Continent, can now be pre-ordered. Three versions are available: a 42\u00d752-inch (107\u00d7132.5-cm) poster, a 44\u00d754-inch (111.7\u00d7138.3-cm) gicl\u00e9e print in a limited edition of 1,200, and a 48\u00d759-inch (121\u00d7149.6-cm) gicl\u00e9e print in a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"North America: Portrait of a Continent (Anton Thomas)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/anton-thomas-north-america-247x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1789588,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/anton-thomass-next-project-wild-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788222,"position":1},"title":"Anton Thomas&#8217;s Next Project: Wild World","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Here\u2019s what Anton Thomas, whose pictorial map of North America was released earlier this year, is working on now: Wild World, a pictorial map of the natural world. While you won't find cities or borders on this map, you will find geographic labels. This is important. From mountain ranges to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/anton-thomas-wild-world-next-1024x752.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/anton-thomas-wild-world-next-1024x752.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/anton-thomas-wild-world-next-1024x752.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/anton-thomas-wild-world-next-1024x752.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1786318,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/the-north-american-continent-a-pictorial-map-by-anton-thomas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788222,"position":2},"title":"The North American Continent: A Pictorial Map by Anton Thomas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"24 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Since 2014 Anton Thomas has been working on a large and detailed hand-drawn pictorial map of North America. Done on a 120-\u00d7-150-cm piece of art paper with coloured pencils and pen, and full of little pictorial details, The North American Continent has taken more than 4,000 hours to draw\u2014and re-draw.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/anton-thomas-north-america-detail-1024x563.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1822223,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/12\/anton-thomass-wild-world-is-out-in-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788222,"position":3},"title":"Anton Thomas&#8217;s Wild World Is Out in the World","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 December 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Earlier this year Anton Thomas finished his Wild World map\u2014a hand-drawn pictorial map of the natural world on the Natural Earth projection\u2014and prints and posters have been shipping out. I\u2019ve covered Wild World before on The Map Room, but this is news I somehow missed at the time. But this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Anton Thomas's Wild World, a hand-drawn pictorial map of the world featuring wildlife.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/anton-thomas-wild-world-1024x533.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1810183,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/12\/anton-thomass-wild-world-a-progress-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788222,"position":4},"title":"Anton Thomas&#8217;s Wild World: A Progress Report","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 December 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Anton Thomas gives us an update on the map he\u2019s been working on for the past two years: Wild World. \u201cWith much ocean ahead, and Antarctica, I think it\u2019ll take another year to finish. But most of the land is done. And prints of certain continents are already available, so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Anton Thomas\u2019s Wild World map, incomplete. Several continents are finished, but oceans and Antarctica are only fainly outlined. 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