Monday, October 17, 2011

Liberty Horse Art


Circus Horse by Emil Cedercreutz 1946 Rauma, Sweden
Aristocrats by British painter Lucy Kemp-Welsh

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ahem, you forgot to include famous circus horse scuptor - ME! LOL

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1024271946091.3870.1804045713&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=1024802799362&set=a.1024271946091.3870.1804045713&type=3&theater

and

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1024271946091.3870.1804045713&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=1024802759361&set=a.1024271946091.3870.1804045713&type=3&theater

Ian

Wade G. Burck said...

Ian,
Geez, that's some beautiful work. What is the medium? Is time constraints keeping you from producing more, or is the posting on facebook just a sample?

Wade

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Not time constraints - just one of those things I wanted to try and lost interest. The only others I did were a series of circus horse Christmas ornaments, which I cast to sell on Ebay. Whenever I get the morgan cast, I'll send you one of the castings. The medium is low temp fired clay.

Ian

Unknown said...

Ian, I liked your horse sculptures too! Lovely work.

Wade G. Burck said...

Ian,
Are any of the Christmas ornament's still available? Let me know when the Morgan is cast. I'll be the first in line. Nancy Ostermaier, wife of the late, great Albert was quite an accomplished horse artist also, and produced a number of small horse sculptures.

Wade

Anonymous said...

I have the molds for the christmas ornaments somewhere - I might dig them out at some point and do them again.

Wade, I have never heard of of a Morgan liberty act, except for Kathy's Morgan crosses. I wonder why that is. I have worked around Morgans and can't see anything that would preclude them, and the modern Morgans are very visually appealing and the price for a decent Morgan is similar to that of a good Arab. The only thing I can think of is that they are mostly bay, and everyone seems to prefer grey or black. I saw a video of a Gruss act with all bays and it was stunning, so...

Ian

Wade G. Burck said...

Ian,
Long ago, in the early day's of the blog, someone asked me what act, if any would be my dream act to train. It was then and still is today, a Palomino Morab liberty act. Morgans are indeed beautiful, and a Morab is even more refined. I love Arabians, and my second favorite horse is anything crossed with an Arabian. I also believe the grey color is one of the reason's Arab's have historically been popular as a liberty horse, and why Morgans and other breeds are not used as much. I think there are also a lot more cull/liberty quality Arabians available, as opposed to the Morgan.

Wade