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American painter

Ann Collins Evans
Born

Ann Collins


Apr 29, 1916

Lyons, New York
Died January six, 1999

Lyons, New York
Nationality American
Education Lyons Central School, Syracuse University
Known for She was an creative person of thoroughbred racehorses.
Spouse(south) Laramie Evans

Ann Collins, also known as Ann Collins Evans (April 29, 1916 – January half-dozen, 1999),[1] was an American artist of thoroughbred racehorses.

Personal life [edit]

Ann Collins was born in Lyons, New York.[2] Her father went to Colorado for his health and worked for a timber operations equally an overseer soon after she was born. She lived with her parents, Cornelius and Lisetta, and older sister, Ellen.[3] She grew up in a remote expanse of Colorado where buffalo ran wild on the 25 mile tract of state. At four years of age was given a pony. She was breaking in colts and riding any horse on the tract by the time she was eight years former. She began drawing ponies as a immature girl and at the age of 14 went to schoolhouse at Mount St. Scholastica University, a Benedictine convent in Cañon City, Colorado.[four] Her father's wellness improved and the family unit returned to Lyons.[3] In 1934, she graduated from Lyons Central School.[2] She studied art at Syracuse University.[1] [3] Her professors encouraged her to pursue oil painting and two years later had her get-go showroom on the backyard of the Saratoga gambling casino, Piping Rock, which her male parent ran with Red Dywer.[iii] Col. E.R. Bradley, owner of four Kentucky Derby winners, bought one of her paintings there and launched her career.

She married Laramie Evans with whom she had a girl, Larry Ann Evans.[ane] She lived in many places during her life and returned to Lyons, New York in 1975, where she died in 1999.[5]

Career [edit]

Collins began painting thoroughbred racehorses in the 1930s.[two] In 1941, she won get-go prize for Bronco at the Finger Lakes exhibition in northern New York.[three] She became interested in painting racing colts in Florida at Hialeah and at Oriental Park in Havana. Collins held an exhibition in 1941 at Saratoga, New York, and sold paintings to Al Sabath and Col. E. R. Bradley. She then painted Alsab, who won the Narragansett in the fall of 1942, for Sabath.[iii] To consummate a painting, she researched the horse, visited its stable, and sketched the horse and whatever distinctive marks. Collins used vivid colors and illustrated the furnishings of sunday and wind in her works. It took about a month to complete her realistic paintings that captured the horses personalities. In the early 1940s she worked in her Lyons, New York studio.[3]

Postcard using Ann Collins painting of Alsab winning over Whirlaway

Alsab winning over Whirlaway at Narrangasett Park, Rhode Island, painted by Ann Collins, 1942

Collins was hired by trainers, breeders and racehorse owners. The more than 75 racehorses that she painted through the 1980s include:[ii]

  • Citation, commissioned past Nat Herzfeld former President of Tropical Park Race Form
  • Chrysler 2 and Past Jimminy for Walter P. Chrysler
  • Dom Bingo for Bing Crosby
  • Tom Fool for Jock Whitney
  • Discovery and Bed O' Roses for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Jr.
  • Rouge Dragon, which is in The National Museum of Racing collection in Saratoga Springs, New York.
  • Quadrangle for Paul Mellon[four]
  • Alsab and Whirlaway in a famous match race,[vi] commissioned by Narangasett Park[iv]
  • Jabneh and Belle Soueur for Louisa Carpenter

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Ann Collins Evans" (obituary find), Pueblo Chieftain, Jan 08, 1999 [1] Archived 2013-03-xi at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ a b c d "Ann Collins Evans". Pride of Lyons Alumni Award, Lyons Key School. Retrieved Feb 24, 2015. [ permanent dead link ]
  3. ^ a b c d e f m "Ann Collins is Tops in Putting Racers on Canvas; Artist Parents Saw Genius". The Milwaukee Journal. October 12, 1942. p. 24. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c EVANS, LARRY ANN. "WAY BACK WHEN IN WAYNE COUNTY: Noted horse painter from Lyons". Finger Lakes Times . Retrieved 2020-11-23 .
  5. ^ "Obituary for Ann Evans Collins (Anile 82)". Democrat and Chronicle. 1999-01-08. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-eleven-23 .
  6. ^ Reilly, Kellie (2020-01-17). "Historical Cameo - Alsab". Brisnet . Retrieved 2020-11-23 .

External links [edit]

  • http://www.askart.com/artist/Ann_Collins/126831/Ann_Collins.aspx

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Collins

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