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 regular hardcover 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.

Signed/Numbered Limited Edition
Leather bound w/slip case
11 x 10
168 pages
57 color reproductions
Product #B11-1099
List Price: $250.00
ISBN: 1-58150-134-X