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The
Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss
Peter
Winants
Pub Date: July 2005. Franklin B. Voss,
one of the great sporting artists of the 20th century,
practiced what he painted. A consummate sportsman, Voss
was equally at home riding to hounds as he was behind
the easel. His glorious oil paintings of the hunt field,
champion racehorses, and prized hounds made him the artist
of choice among America’s sporting elite during the
first half of the 20th century.
Peter Winants, former editor of Chronicle of the Horse,
provides the definitive biography of Voss and details
the more than 50 original color reproductions, many seen
here for the first time.
Also
available as a leather-bound limited
edition.
About the Author:
For many years Peter Winants, a native of Maryland, photographed
horses for advertising purposes and took pictures of horse
racing and other horse sports for various magazines. In
1972 he joined the staff of the Chronicle of the Horse,
a national weekly magazine based in Virginia, and in time
became the editor, then publisher. After retiring from
the Chronicle in 1991 at age sixty-five, Winants
became the director of the National Sporting Library in
Middleburg, Virginia, for nine years. He is now director
emeritus of the library, which has one of the world’s
largest collections of books on horses, horsemanship,
and associated field sports.
Winants’ first book, published by Winants Brothers
Inc. in 1966, concerned the American steeplechase horse
Jay Trump, who won the 1965 English Grand National. In
1989 Winants authored the biography of steeplechase champion
Flatterer, published by the Chronicle of the Horse.
Derrydale Press published Winants’ Steeplechasing:
A Complete History of the Sport in North America in
2000 and Foxhunting with Melvin Poe in 2002. The
Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss is Winants’
fifth book. Winants resides in Rectortown, Virginia, near
Middleburg.
To
read a Q&A with Peter Winants, click here.
Praise
for The Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss:
"This
is an exciting book: the more you look, the more it draws
you in ... The Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss
is an enjoyable course in equestrian history and art appreciation
that you don't want to miss."
-- Lauren Giannini, In & Around
Horse Country
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"(Voss')
horse paintings capture his admiration for the horse and
appreciation for the world in which he lived."
-- Sarah Crampton, Horses in Art
magazine
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"The
Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss is a book to dawdle
over on a winter afternoon when the weather is too bad
for riding. Sitting before the fire, a glass of sippin’
whiskey in hand, the reader is transported to another
time by Voss's art, to an era before shopping malls and
subdivisions threatened the countryside...Peter Winants'
paean to Franklin B. Voss carries us back to our sporting
roots."
-- Martha Woodham, Covertside: The Magazine
of Mounted Foxhunting
****
"A
splendid and highly recommended addition to art shelves,
The Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss is especially
recommended for the equine sport enthusiast."
--Bookwatch
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Hardcover
11 x 10
168 pages
57 color reproductions
Product #B11-1097
List Price: $60.00
ISBN: 1-58150-120-X
Also
available:
Signed/Numbered
Limited Edition
Leather bound w/slip case
Product
#B11-1099
List
Price: $250.00
ISBN: 1-58150-134-X
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