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Paul Desmond BrownThe Last Fence Glangesia Jumps His 60th National Fence Aintree 19311931
1931
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Glangesia would finish 4th w/ J. Browne jockey aboard
Watercolor w/ gouache highlights
Art Sz: 9 3/4"H x 15 5/8"W
Frame Sz: 18"H x 24"W
Preparations for the Grand National Steeplechase of 1933 began as early as two months ago when George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, on his way to California for a winter of polo, announced that he planned to ride, one of his own horses at Aintree next year. Preparing for this year's Grand National on March 18, Richard King ("Dick") Mellon, affable young vice president of Mellon National Bank of Pittsburgh and nephew of Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, last week packed his bags in Manhattan to sail for England on the Bremen. Waiting for him there were his two Grand National entries, Alike and Glangesia. Alike won one of the Grand National trials a year ago but finished the race far back in the field, while Glangesia came in seventh. Glangesia, a 12-year-old Irish horse, ridden by his Irish jockey, James Ryan, last autumn won the International Steeplechase at Grasslands Downs, Tenn. In his exuberance "Dick" Mellon told friends that, if he won the Grand National, he would buy a Fierce-Arrow automobile and "give it away."
This year, because qualifying tests were introduced to eliminate low-grade jumpers cluttering the field, entries have been reduced from 85 last year to 58. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Easter Hero, who was favorite last year, was retired at Upperville, Va., but the three horses who finished ahead—Grakle, Gregalach and Annandale—were entered again. Among the others were Sea Soldier, a nine-year-old gelding by Man O' War; "Jock" Whitney's Dusty Foot; Gordon Selfridge's steady jumper, Ruddyman; and four of Morgan D. Blair's horses—Ballyhanwood, Prince Cherry, Great Span and Aruntius.
Most celebrated and most dangerous of all steeplechase races, the Grand National was run for the first time in 1839. Most famous of its 16 jumps is Becher's Brook, a five-foot hedge in front of a five-and-a-half-foot ditch. The average odds on Grand National winners have been 15 to 1; their average time, 9 min., 55 sec. for 4½ mi.
- Creator:Paul Desmond Brown (1893 - 1958, American)
- Creation Year:1931
- Dimensions:Height: 9.75 in (24.77 cm)Width: 15.5 in (39.37 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bristol, CT
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Paul Brown was an American illustrator of equestrian subjects although he was never formally trained as an artist. He is primarily known for his paintings, drawings and sketches of horses and equestrian sports. He is also well-known for his over three decades of illustrations for Brooks Brothers catalogs including more than one-thousand drawings. These illustrations made him a major influence on the image of urban males in twentieth-century America. With Paul Brown's art, color is only an occasional adjunct playing a very secondary role to the use of the hard-edged line. His style has a calculated simplicity, a casual appearance, but is very carefully contrived and executed with much authority. Illustrations by Paul Brown drew heavily upon copious notes and studies, often aided by photography as well as photographic memory. Brown preferred to draw with a pencil and, although not fond of painting, successfully employed a technique of using tinted paper with white highlights. During the heyday of polo in the 1930's, Paul Brown immortalized the sport for many in his illustrations for Peter Vischer's POLO magazine, of which Brown was a member of the editorial board. "Today those historical moments are often taken for granted, as is much of the past, but we still have Paul Brown's unique legacy to breathe life into those special times." Illustrating and writing books became Brown's main occupation, and he worked with the major publishers of the day including The Derrydale Press, Charles Scribner's Sons, Dodd, Mead & Company.
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