About Cross Gate Gallery
Founded in 1974, Cross Gate Gallery is a leading source of the world’s finest sporting art. The Lexington based gallery specializes in equine-related art, and its impressive inventory ranges from 19th and early-20th- century classic works to contemporary paintings and sculpture. Greg Ladd, the gallery’s founder, parlayed an early interest in fine art and his love of thoroughbred racing into what would become one of world’s premier sporting art galleries. Early on, Ladd recognized that Lexington’s stature as the Horse Capital of the World made it an ideal locale to sell...Read More
Established in 19741stDibs seller since 2025
Featured Pieces
A Left - and Right - at Woodcock
Located in Lexington, KY
Having a father in the Air Force Burgees traveled and lived in many different cities throughout his life such as England, Germany, and Cyprus. And at age 19 he joined the Royal Airfo...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Draft Horses (set of three)
Located in Lexington, KY
Focusing on painting coaching and driving scenes. Standing mainly paints in watercolors and has chosen that as his medium. Little is known about the artist but it is believed that he...
Category
19th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cock and Hen (Pheasants)
By Ferdinand Pautrot
Located in Lexington, KY
Little is known about this artist but he began exhibiting at the Salon in 1861 and he continued to do so through 1870. His work is mainly based around hunting themes and animal figur...
Category
19th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Racing, Epsom and Aintree (a pair)
By George Denholm Armour
Located in Lexington, KY
Armour gre up in Liverpool and graduated from the University of St. Andrews and the Edinburgh College of Art. After his time in college he would move to Morocco to buy horses and wou...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
To the Track
Located in Lexington, KY
Specializing in equine art Arenys Galdon has had his works exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Paris, and other major cities. He has also earned medals for top placings in the 19...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the Wind
Located in Lexington, KY
Living in a creekside cabin in Bliss, New York, Daly involves the environment around him in almost all of his paintings. He mostly paints landscape pictures and also produces still l...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Newmarket Heath
By Doris Zinkeisen
Located in Lexington, KY
During the 1920’s and ‘30s, Zinkeisen would share a studio with her sister in London, where she started her commercial career as an artist, theatrical designer, and as a painter. Dur...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Going to Post, Chantilly
Located in Lexington, KY
Gridnev, a member of the Pastel Society, Royal institute of Oil Painters, and Federation of British Artists and Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Showcases his work here with maste...
Category
20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family Farm
By John Frederick Herring Jr
Located in Lexington, KY
Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie’s, London, 5 June 1998, lot 32 (25,300 Euro)
Son of John Frederick Herring Sr. The Junior Herring painted farm and equestrian scenes similar in sub...
Category
19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Races
By François Gall
Located in Lexington, KY
Gall was a Hungarian-born French painter known for his abstract expressionism and surrealism marked by bold colors, dynamic forms, and a deep sense of human emotion. Gall was educate...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Belvoir, Checked
By Henry Koehler
Located in Lexington, KY
Established in 1750 on the 15,000 acre Belvoir Estate in Leicestershire, England. The Belvoir Hunt, also known as the “Duke of Rutlands Hounds”, has a very long and rich history. The...
Category
1880s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Horse Fair at Donegal
Located in Lexington, KY
Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated 1863
Provenance: Grubbs Auction, June 8, 1984 Christie’s, New York
; Bartlett Burnap
Turner was a British artist who has been referred to as “Horse Fa...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
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