Chisholm Gallery

Triple Crown Champions • Thoroughbred Genealogy • Ladies Of The Turf

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