(Photo courtesy of Clarkson Potter, Random House)

Photo of Vicky Moon & Liza Todd-Tivey (Photo courtesy of Taylor Shapiro)

Author Vicky Moon greeted Liza Todd Tivey this week at a private party in Saratoga Springs, New York to celebrate the publication of her new book: “Equestrian Style: Home Design, Couture, and Collections from the Eclectic to the Elegant.” The reception was hosted by Jeanne Chisholm owner of the Chisholm Gallery, LLC, Fine Equestrian & Sporting Art  (Pine Plains, NY)  in architect Tom Frost’s renovated carriage house on Starbuck Lane which is featured in the book.   Sculptor Liza Todd Tivey’s (daughter of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Todd) monumental bronze of the famous race horse, Nashua takes up several beautiful pages in the coffee table tome. Thoroughbred race horse owners such as Campbell’s soup heiress Charlotte Weber and DD Matz (of King Ranch and wife of Barbaro’s trainer, Michael Matz) and Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey and his wife, Alison were among those gathered for the celebration. 

Signed copies of Equestrian Style are available at Chisholm Gallery, LLC, Three Factory Lane, Pine Plains, NY 12567 Telephone: 518.398 1246 or visit http://www.chisholmgallery.com 

Interior photo of Chisholm Gallery featured in the book
(Photo courtesy of Kathy Landman Atelier, Amenia, NY)

Images from Equestrian Style

AMERICAN POLO SCENE

A set of four hand-coloured intaglio aquatint ‘American Polo Scene’ prints by the American artist, Paul Brown, titled ‘On the Boards’, ‘The Save’, ‘The Goal’ and ‘Down the Field’; each signed to the lower left. Dimensions of each 24 x 17 inches (61 x 43 cm). Plate size: 12.5 x 20 inches. Printed on imported handmade paper. Titles engraved in the same style as other sets of American Sporting scenes published by The Derrydale Press, 1930. Only 175 signed proofs were produced of each print, which makes a bona fide set of four rare and valuable.

The Marblehead Bracelet, inspired by the cotton Turk’s-head bracelet, is made of thousands of tiny pearls, tightly woven together, and clasped with a fourteen karat gold safety clasp. It took nearly two years to develop and perfect the construction technique for the Marblehead Bracelet.

Few places in the world have more sailing tradition than does Marblehead, Massachusetts, the Yachting Capital of America and the birthplace of the American Navy.

The Marblehead Bracelet reflects those traditions in its twelve strands of pearls and Turk’s-head knotting and, it is a tribute to the wonderful people of Marblehead, who were so kind and supportive of the designer, during her many years there.

Andréa Witherwax is the creator of the Marblehead Bracelet.

Jenness Cortez, Master American Realist, is a mid-career artist with astonishing talent. Inspired by the light, colour and form of the great masters, Cortez skillfully incorporates familiar images into exquisitely painted contemporary settings. By depicting artworks into her compositions, Cortez underscores a classic paradox of painting: the painting as a “window” into an imagined space, and as a physical object; both a metaphysical presence and a material entity. Her dynamic and rich compositions entreat the viewer’s eye to move eagerly through these paintings again and again, savouring every nuance. Cortez chooses to utilize her talent for realism to illuminate the ordinary. As in the works of O’Keeffe or Estes, everyday objects become dazzling and luminous when reconsidered through her virtuosity. Far from being mere exercises in photorealism or replication, each Cortez work touches upon important questions about the nature of painting itself and the significance of art objects. Her work inspires viewers to rediscover, revalue and reintegrate their own creative force into the hurried regimen of modern life. Cortez’s clients are knowledgeable and include important collectors known for their ability to choose artists whose careers become legendary.

Ladies Of The Turf
Original Limited Edition Etching

This hand-painted, original, limited edition etching honours 42 great fillies and mares. It displays facts, figures and memorabilia plus 25 portraits of the most important female thoroughbreds of all time.
 
Etching Statistics
Edition Number: 150, Artist Proofs: 15
Image Size: 18 by 29 inches
Framed Size: 26 by 37 inches
Paper: Arches 300 gram
Certificate of Authenticity
Signed & Numbered
 
Unframed - $2,000
Framed - $2,275

If you order a remarque print or etching, please add $300
Each collector has the option to commission an original watercolour portrait Remarque of the head of the thoroughbred of his or her choice. If ordering a specially commissioned Remarque, be sure to include the name of the thoroughbred of your choice. For example if you wish Ms. Cortez to create an original Remarque of Cigar, request the following: Cigar Head Portrait or Cigar Race Action

Triple Crown Champions

A Limited Edition Historic Art Document Honouring The Eleven American Triple Crown Winners Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed.

The Cortez Triple Crown Champions etching is, without question the most
unique collectible in today’s sporting art market.

In addition to an original, limited edition etching, this handsome, historic art document includes, at no additional charge, a one-of-a-kind watercolour painting of your favourite Triple Crown Champion.

Be certain to notify the gallery which of the 11 Triple Crown Champions
you’d like to have painted on your etching.

Unframed - $2,550  (25″ x 18.5″)
Deluxe Frame - $2825  (32″ x 25″)

Thoroughbred Genealogy

This unique historical etching provides a genealogy of the modern thoroughbred as traced through blood lines of the world’s greatest sires. Thirty-two portraits are included. Each collector has the option to commission an original watercolour portrait Remarque of the head of the thoroughbred of his or her choice. If ordering a specially commissioned Remarque, be sure to include the name of the thoroughbred of your choice on the order form.

Etching Statistics
Edition Number: 175 - Artist Proofs: 35
Date of Printing: 1989
Image Size - 26 by 20 inches Framed Size - 34 by 27 inches
Paper: Arches 300 gram
Certificate of Authenticity
Signed & Numbered
 
Unframed - $1,200
Framed - $1,475

Sporting Art and Landscape Periods
Like the great horse painters George Stubbs and Frederic Remington, Jenness Cortez is first and foremost an extraordinary draftsman. Beginning in 1977, and for the next twenty years, she received international acclaim for her sporting paintings and her powerful depictions of the horse. During the mid 1990s, her long-time interest in landscape began to blossom. In the tradition of the 19th century Hudson River and Barbizon School painters, her vision comprehends all of nature as a manifestation of the divine. Cortez’s landscape images evoke a certain transcendent quality rarely seen in contemporary realism. Her representations of the phenomenal world are sensitive, passionate and deeply moving.

Cortez’s clients are knowledgeable and include important collectors known for their ability to choose artists whose careers become legendary. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including those of Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, HRH Queen Elizabeth, II, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Alexander, Mr. Edgar Bronfman, Ms. Virginia Kraft Payson, Ambassador True Davis, Mr. Henry Kravis, Mr. Ogden Mills Phipps, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Congressman Gerald Solomon, Gov. George Pataki, Gov. Hugh Carey, Atlanta Braves general manager John Schuerholz and Mr. Jerry Weintraub. Public and corporate collectors include the New York State Museum, Fluor Corporation, Saratoga Harness, Inc., Skidmore College and SUNY Empire State College

Kathy Landman
fine art photography

About the Collection

The Millbrook Hunt is one of the most attractive hunts in the United States, and their hunt country is perhaps the most beautiful open land anywhere in the world. Knowing this, and wanting to continue in the manner of artists who have used the Hunt as their subject matter, Kathy Landman spent a year on foot following the hunt. Beginning in the early fall with roading the young hounds, through late winter, when the pack working in concert like a finely tuned orchestra, would raise their voices in full cry, Landman witnessed many moments of beauty and inspiration for this, her first series of prints on the Millbrook Hunt.

Landman’s  artistic process is both photographic and painterly. Kathy combines pictures and drawings into seamless photo realistic images which she prints on her press using archival pigments and Hanemuhle German Etching Paper. Each of the large prints in this series is signed, numbered and embossed and limited to an edition of ten. The complete set of 12 prints is available as a boxed set, or can be ordered individually. Additional images from A Season with the  Millbrook Hunt and A Visit to Millbrook Kennels can be viewed at The Chisholm Gallery in Pine Plains and custom ordered. For pricing and availability, please request a price list via email.

FREUDY PHOTOS ARCHIVES, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS, CLASSIC COLLECTOR’S ITEMS

For over 60 years, Freudy Photos, the East Coast’s premier society photographers, captured the beauty and split-second action of equestrian sports, and photographed America’s aristocratic, dynastic families from New York to Palm Beach. In the 1920s, Austrian-born Harry Freudy, a society photographer for the “New York Journal-American” newspaper, opened Freudy Photos studios in Aiken, S.C., and New York City.

Ted Freudy joined his father’s business in 1937, after graduating with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In W.W.II, he served in a U.S. Army Photographer’s Unit, fought in the Philippines as a four-time decorated officer, and returned to Freudy Photos in 1946.

Following his father’s death in 1957, Ted became New York’s top society photographer for the next 30 years, covering Polo Matches, Steeplechase Races, Pony Races, Fox Hunting, Horse Shows, Hound Shows, and private social events.

Ted covered events at the Maryland Hunt Cup, Rosetree, Greentree, Litchfield, Newport Carriage Festival, Rolling Rock Hunt, Bryn Mawr Hound Show, Meadowbrook Polo Club, Fair Hill Races, Tuxedo Park, Rombout, Cheshire Hunt, Smithtown Hunt, Goldens Bridge Hunter Pace, Radnor Hunt, North Shore Carriage Meet, Monmouth Hunter Pace, Old Westbury, Millbrook, Essex, Far Hills, Piping Rock, Aiken, Devon, Southampton, the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, and the annual Masters of the Foxhunt Dinner … and more.

His Golf Tournament photos feature A.C. and Pete Bostwick, Claude Harmon, Buzzy Sheftel, Justine Cushing, and sugar king Pepe Fanjul, among many others.

Ted photographed Debutante Parties, Cotillions, Assemblies, Bridal Dinners, Weddings, Christenings, Birthday Parties, and other private events of Social Register families at their homes and at excusive clubs. His portraits of society’s brides and brides-to-be were published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times for over 30 years.

Ted Freudy’s outstanding photographs, easy manner, and strict professionalism earned him the respect and trust of generations of the privileged.

He photographed the families of Ford, DuPont, Rockefeller, Harrington, Fisk, Paley, Phipps, Whitney, Bostwick, Hitchcock, Jackie Kennedy, Joseph Widener, Stewart & Phillip Iglehart, Gimbel, Burden, Hutton, Mortimer, Duke, Oxenburg, Roosevelt, Biddle, Strawbridge, Winston Guest, Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Hannum, Goodyear, von Stade, Lilly Pulitzer, McKim, Arthur Godfrey, Stoddard, Leslie Combs, F. Ambrose Clark, John Schiff, Fern Tailer, Clarence Pell, Eve Ledyard, Eve Pell, L.C. Ledyard, George A. “Frolic” Weymouth, Bouvier, Auchinchloss, Caroline Kennedy, John Kennedy Jr., Chauncey Stillman, Merck, Doubleday, Farnham Collins, Danforth, Frank Shields, Ordway, Bancroft, Carroll Bassett, Alan Corey, Kendrick Gillespie, and hundreds more.

Ted’s remarkable photo of a Lippanzer horse was chosen for exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photos of Jackie Kennedy appeared in The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, by Vicky Moon (ReganBooks 2005). Two additional books and a documentary film containing Ted’s photos are scheduled for publication and release in 2008.

Ted Freudy died in 2005. He had been too ill to properly preserve his work, and sadly, the bulk of it was destroyed through neglect. Shortly after his death, his stepdaughter, Lorna Drake, discovered more than 1,500 society and equestrian-related negatives, a small number of original prints, and perhaps 500 negatives of weddings from the 1970s and ‘80s.

Much of the work left behind contains little or no identifying information; Ted had filed the names, years, and events of these photos in his head. But loyal customers have been most helpful in filling in the blanks, and the search continues.

It’s unknown why Ted saved some pictures and not others. But these grand images of America’s aristocracy at play over the last century are all that remain of Freudy Photos. We offer a small number here, and hope to add others, in time.

To view more images from Freudy Photos Archives, please click here to visit our Artists Pages: http://chisholmgallery.com/new/freudy-photos-archives/

To order prints or for other inquiries contact Chisholm Gallery by e-mail: info@chisholmgallery.com or telephone: 518.398.1246.

All rights to these materials are reserved. Images and materials, including those found on our website, in our print catalogs , CDs, and email presentations are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other International laws (Berne Convention). None of these images may be reproduced or transmitted in whole or in part in any form, without prior written permission of Freudy Photos Archives, LLC, Chisholm Gallery, LLC, Lorna Drake Giles or its authorized agents. No rights for reproduction or commercial use in any form whatsoever are given or implied. Any sale of these photographs does not constitute an implied sale of the copyright, or rights to reproduce the photograph in any way. Any infringement will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Home Design, Couture, and Collections from the Eclectic to the Elegant By Vicky Moon

To be published by Clarkson Potter, July 2008

In this luxurious tour through stylish equestrian-themed interiors, Vicky Moon captures the rich details—from the coveted to the quirky—of the art, architecture, clothing, and people the classic horse motif inspires.

Elegant equestrians in impeccable attire; glorious hunt balls held in museums; a procession of regal foxhunting paintings in a home fit for a polo king and his brood: the world of horses is full of imagery. Extending far beyond the stable, the race track, and the polo field, our love of all things equine appears everywhere from our closets to our dining rooms.

Now, journalist and horse-world fixture Vicky Moon captures the equestrian way of life with an unprecedented peek into several dozen stunning residences. You’ll visit a French-accented mansion decorated with contemporary horse art; an equestrian resort on 395 acres—complete with cottages for owners to rent and a large private collection of carriages; a spa with a swimming pool for horses; and a working barn that Kathryn Ireland decorated to do double duty as a home for a professional horseman, riding instructor, and model whose students included Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

Horse enthusiasts will be delighted to find that familiar names and faces of the horse world grace these luxurious pages, from equestrian art masters of the past such as painter George Stubbs and sculptor Herbert Haseltine to today’s most popular sculptors such as Liza Todd Tivey and Beverly Zimmer. Horse devotees, such as the up-and-coming star Mayan Lopez, show jumper Georgina Bloomberg, and the late Allaire duPont, are profiled with their beloved horses and the collections and fashions that follow their passions. With beautiful photographs, richly detailed stories, and practical advice, Equestrian Style is certain to inspire horse lovers everywhere to bring a stylish bit of the stable into their homes.

A journalist for over twenty years, VICKY MOON has written about Middleburg’s hunt balls, steeplechase races, and parties for Town & Country, Millionaire, Veranda, and Southern Accents, House & Garden. She writes a monthly column for Washington Life magazine and is the author of five books, including The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Portrait of a Rider and A Sunday Horse: A Year on the Grand Prix Jumping Circuit. She lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Middleburg, Virginia, with her husband, sportswriter Leonard Shapiro, and their son. Her Web site is www.VickyMoon.com.

The Chisholm Gallery is thrilled to announce a new, and even more dynamic website, a virtual space that is almost as exciting as our Gallery and Emporium in Pine Plains, New York. We are giving our artists more control over their gallery spaces, including the opportunity to expand their online portfolios. Plus, you will be able to check back frequently for regularly updated announcements about special exhibits, off-site events, fabulous new inventory, and maybe even just our thoughts about this incredible area. Ciao and we look forward to seeing you back here often!