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Vintage Wesley Dennis Horse Print in 16x20 Mat, Ready 2 Frame: The Suffolk Punch

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Seller: clarendon ✉️ (3,937) 100%, Location: Valrico, Florida, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 133930770823 Vintage Wesley Dennis Horse Print in 16x20 Mat, Ready 2 Frame: The Suffolk Punch. Up for sale is this lovely vintage horse print by Wesley Dennis published in 1951. This print, one of several we are currently selling, is in excellent condition and is custom-matted in an acid-neutral 16" x 20" mat, a standard frame size for framing economically with a ready-made frame.  About the artist:

John Wesley Dennis (1903-1966) grew up on a farm on Cape Cod. He and his older brother Morgan both learned to draw farm animals in their youth, especially horses and dogs.  After he failed the US Naval Academy entrance exam, he dropped out of school at age 17 and looked for work in Boston, where Morgan was a newspaper illustrator with the Boston Herald.  He got a similar job at the Boston American by showing some of Morgan's work as his own(!), then found illustration jobs with several department stores, including Jordan Marsh and Filene's.  He did not intend to become an artist. "Most of my new friends were spending the mornings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts drawing from plaster casts. They wanted to be artists. They usually were broke."

After his brother Morgan convinced him to try to make a living drawing horses, Dennis began by sketching racetrack winners, hoping to receive portrait commissions from the owners. This brought some success.  He decided to further his education, and traveled to France to study with British painter Lowes Dalbiac Luard, an expert on horse anatomy.  In 1941, he visited Warrenton, Virginia and purchased a farm there which would be his home, with his wife, until his death in 1966.  Also in 1941, Dennis published his first book, Flip, a "fanciful story about a pony named Flip and his desire to jump the brook."  His illustrations attracted author Marguerite Henry, who later wrote, "I had just finished writing Justin Morgan Had a Horse, and wanted the best horse artist in the world to illustrate it. So I went to the library, studied the horse books, and immediately fell in love with the work of Will James and Wesley Dennis. When I found out that Will James was dead, I sent my manuscript to Wesley Dennis."  Thus began a 20-year collaboration which resulted in the publication of 15 books.

Through his collaboration with Henry, his work became well-known and much beloved by horse aficianados everywhere.

Buy It Now and Enjoy - and please see our other listings for more Wesley horse prints as well; we will combine shipping!
  • Condition: In excellent condition, as pictured.
  • Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
  • Artist: Wesley Dennis
  • Production Technique: Lithograph
  • Style: Vintage
  • Material: Offset Lithograph
  • Theme: Animals
  • Type: Print
  • Features: Matted
  • Subject: Animals
  • Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
  • Signed: Unsigned
  • Date of Creation: 1950-1969
  • Original/Licensed Reprint: Open Edition Print
  • Year of Production: 1951
  • Original/Reproduction: Original Print
  • Width (Inches): 16
  • Framed/Unframed: Unframed
  • Height (Inches): 20
  • Print Surface: Paper

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