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December Issue 2003
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, Presents Equine Art Show
Conn Gallery in Landrum, SC, is hosting its third annual equine show. The exhibit will be on view through Jan. 9, 2004.
Phyllis Eifert, a local favorite as well as a national star, has incorporated horses into her artwork through out her life. Her work in bronze is exquisite and in many private collections. Her newest medium is paper mache, and the gallery will have both in the show. Eifert and her husband reside in Tryon, NC. She enjoys riding and fox hunting in the area in her spare time.
Charles Harptå
Charles Harpt, another local icon, lives in Tryon as well. His accurate and beautiful renderings of both horses and people have appeared on dozens of covers of the Chronicle of the Horse, and are in many more private collections nation wide. You can spot him at horse shows, camera in hand, shooting everyone from Grand Prix riders to short stirrup. Harpt didn't ride until he was an adult in the army, and it was there he fell in love with the horse. Now, as an "older adult" he still rides in lessons and on trail rides in his spare time.
Joan McEntire, also of Tryon, has been painting horses, dogs, and other animals in a traditional style for more than forty years. McEntire has shown with Conn Gallery in their first equine show, and her work is a part of several public and private collections, including George Getty III, Jacqueline Getty, P.K. Wrigley, Howard Koch and Telly Sevalas.
McEntire paints in acrylics and oils, and sees every animal as an individual - their personality comes through the portrait. She has owned and raced thoroughbreds, shown arabs and saddlebreds, so her experience is hands on and built on years of just doing it.
Jill Silver also resides in Tryon, and has been a professional, full time artist for seven years. Her work consists mainly of commission portraits of dogs and horses, in pencil and colored pencil. The portraits are so true to their likeness, Silver has delighted owners from all over the Carolinas with her finished pieces. She creates the annual artwork for the Tryon Hounds Horse Show and in 2002 provided the artwork for the Blockhouse Steeplechase. Recently, Silver was chosen to be one of thirty artists from all over the Southeast to design and paint a fiberglass horse for Horse Play a public art exhibition in Aiken, SC.
Silver lives with three dogs, 2 foxhounds, 2 cats and 2 horses - all of them great friends and often double as models for her work!
Keith Spencer is one of Conn Gallery's resident artists, displaying large and small Canvases of the Carolinas; landscapes, figures, and their animals. Spencer's colorful landscapes embody the light and power of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the farmlands, the small towns and the horses that are so beloved in this area. Spencer has a huge talent; his pieces run the gamut from realism to abstract. He is prolific and shows in several galleries throughout the Carolinas, as well as part of dozens of private collections.
So come see our nationally known "local" artists in this diverse equine show. And don't forget our "permanent family" of artists who are always with, us - they frequently change new work in for the old, so come and see everything!
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