This painting was on national tour for a year with the MFHA Centennial Celebration and Crossgate Gallery. It's 36" square with a gorgeous dark frame and got home just a couple days ago. Crossgate did a super job handling it on such a busy tour. I'm not sure where it will go next. I might keep it at home and enjoy it for a while. It was painted in 2006.
A good friend (hunter/jumper trainer) and I both agree that we WANT this horse. You can see the way he looks across on a long rein that he would canter down the line to a jump much the same way. He has perfect self carriage and is bold and honest. He never spooks away from you; he might spook in place which only enhances his form over a fence and quality of canter. This did not come from the model but out of my head.. he actually is the aura of one of my first stallions, Locksley Spotlight. Spotlight had this 'pose', topline balance and went on a long rein, had the perfect canter/jump, etc.. He would spook out form under me every so often but that was usually due to feeling too fresh. I'm not riding right now but this horse makes me wish I was. So whether or not I think this painting was mature in technique it's effect is.
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Sounds like a great horse.
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