Who is your favorite Equestrian Artist?

[Weatherford]

Who is your favorite Equestrian Artist?

Living or Dead -
Painter or Illustrator -

If you could (or do!) draw and paint, who would you most like to draw/paint like? IF you could ask any artist do do a portrait of your favor horse (s) (hound/hunting/scene), who would it be? (Again, living or dead - this is the stuff of daydreams )

Really important (and someday you will know why)!

Thanks - And, mine? First, Paul Brown. And since he was not good at oils (admittedly - I read a great letter about it), my second (well, maybe first) choice is AJ Munnings.

Then, Cecil Aldin, Snaffles/Charlie Payne, Lionel Edwards, Richard Stone Reeves, Milton Minasco (sp), CW Anderson, Sam Savitt…

So, what do you think? Are there great artists and illustrators I’ve missed?

THANKS!!!

[fordtraktor]

Stubbs. I have a large copy of Whistlejacket in my living room. Also Theodore Gericault’s Study of a Dapple Grey on the other side of the fireplace.

[2horseygirls]

Laurie Justus Pace has the most incredible abstract modern horse paintings . . . http://ellepace.com/

[charismaryllis]

rosa bonheur and stubbs. and the guy who does those fabulous bronzes of horses and cattle and sheep and pigs which are right outside the sporting art gallery at the VMFA… give me a few hours and his name will come to me.

and the guy who did the Grant memorial in washington.

eta: haseltine

http://www.artnet.com/artists/herbert-haseltine/past-auction-results

[hoopoe]

Munnings

I was in London in November and went to the national just to sit down in front of Whistlejacket. They have a bench perfectly situated

Then went and passed through the 19th century area for Munnings.

[Zu_Zu]

George Ford Morris ~

[danacat]

Marino Marini and Deborah Butterfield.

[LSMarnell]

Mary Haggard. LOVE her stuff. I have a sofa sized print of “Bringing Home the Prize” in my living room.

Paul Brown second. Always stirs up good feelings seeing his work!

[Kerrysmom818]

Stubbs and Munnings, Richard Stone Reeves, Fred Stone, C.W. Anderson, Wesley Dennis.

I have several Fred Stone prints hung throughout the house - Charismatic is probably my favorite (a Mother’s Day gift purchased at CD and signed by Stone and Antley, Point Given (signed by Stone and Stevens) still needs a frame!

[horsepoor]

I am currently infatuated with this guy’s stuff - Tony O’Connor. I ran across him when searching for an artist to do a portrait of one of my horses. His commissions are too expensive for me right now, but maybe someday.

[axl]

http://lindalusterstudio.com/ I love the Zen horse “rider views” but pretty much all of stuff is great.

[luvmyhackney]

I have so many:
Jessie Pettie
http://jessiepettiewatercolors.com
George Ford Morris (sample of his work)
http://www.harnesstracks.com/pdf_documents/GFM%20Supplement.pdf
Ann Crawford
http://www.artbyannecrawford.com/
Jeanne Newton Schoborg
http://jnsfineart.com/

[talkofthetown]

I am TOTALLY uneducated when it comes to art…I love it but didn’t recognize a singe name on this thread. So take my comment FWIW but I wanted to plug one of our own, DLee. Beautiful paintings!!! When I come into an unexpected pile of money one day I’m going to purchase a few from her. :yes:

[SlabSided]

Sam Savitt. But mostly for the nostalgia factor. I spent an inordinate amount of time copying his drawings with tracing paper when I was a kid.

[pattnic]

George Stubbs, George Ford Morris, Jeanne Mellin Herrick, Sam Savitt, Paul Brown, and Franzi Pfeiffer.

[atr]

Sir Alfred Munnings. I love the movement in his paintings, and that he obviously loved and knew his subjects intimately.

When I was a poor art student, nearly 40 years ago, I was in a scruffy little antique shop in the back street of Norwich, England, and came across some chalk sketches by Munnings. They were on roller blinds. Apparently, he did them in a local billiard hall in payment for a gambling debt. They’d hung there for many years, so were in need of some TLC and were (relatively) cheap.

I came so close to blueing my tuition grant for those drawings… Sense prevailed, but I still sometimes wish it hadn’t!

[SmartAlex]

It’s neck and neck between Munnings and GFM.
For illustrations I love Paul Brown. Gladys Brown Edwards deserves an honorable mention, particularly for her sculpture. And let’s not forget Adeline Halvorson and her incredible paintings of draft horses.

[NoSuchPerson]

[QUOTE=SlabSided;9008557]
Sam Savitt. But mostly for the nostalgia factor. I spent an inordinate amount of time copying his drawings with tracing paper when I was a kid.[/QUOTE]

Yes. Sam Savitt and CW Anderson.

One of my favorite features in the COTH is the page at the end that features some equine artist.

But I’m way too lowbrow to have a favorite equine artist. :lol:

The only equine art I have on display is a print I bought 30-some years ago in Lexington, KY. The original was a watercolor, IIRC. It’s a head-on view of racehorses thundering down the stretch. You can almost reach out and touch the the dirt flying into the air. Our favorite donut-ice cream shop was next door to the gallery and I repeatedly parked directly in front of the picture hanging in the window of the gallery over the course of several months before I finally broke down and went in and bought one for myself.

[clanter]

I know of only one true equine artist that was Mr Ed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwCTX_p8mNg

[NoSuchPerson]

[QUOTE=clanter;9008686]
I know of only one true equine artist that was Mr Ed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwCTX_p8mNg[/QUOTE]

I disagree. Mr. Ed was just a TV actor. Francis the Talking Mule was a MOVIE Star