Henry Koehler -Three Jockeys on Horse Before the Start-Oil Painting

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Henry Koehler -Three Jockeys on Horse Before the Start-Oil painting

American Impressionist - oil painting on canvas - Signed also … Read more Henry Koehler -Three Jockeys on Horse Before the Start-Oil painting

American Impressionist - oil painting on canvas - Signed also titled and dated 1985 in verso
Canvas size 22x28" - Frame size: 28x34"

Artist Biography
(Born 1927)
Henry Koehler is a sporting artist who lives in Southampton, New York, Henry Koehler was born in Louisville, Kentucky.
He graduated from Yale University, and shortly after that had illustrations published by The New Yorker, Town and Country, and Sports Illustrated.
His first exhibition was in 1961, and since then he has exhibited in over 60 venues in London, Paris, Dublin, Johannesburg and the United States.
His works are in the collections of the National Racing Museum in Saratoga and the National Horse Racing Museum in Newmarket. He has painted several commission portraits of well-known thoroughbreds
but prefers genre pieces depicting horse-racing, polo games, and hunting in the field with horses. He also does studies of jockey figures before and after their race; sensitive studies of jockeys before and after racing.
An July-October 2003 exhibition, Elegant Impressions of Turf and Field, was held at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Saratoga Springs. See less