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PAUL DESMOND BROWN (1893-1958) WORLD'S FAIR / HORSE SHOW. 1933. 19x25 inches, 48 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Condition B+ / B: pin holes in corners; loss in bottom margin; smudging in image. Paper. Paul Brown was an obvious and popular choice as the artist commissioned to create the promotional artwork for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Horse Show. He was a talented equestrian artist whose first official assignments came in the mid-1920s. By 1927, Brown was lauded for his illustrations for Polo magazine. "Many artists had produced steeplechase and foxhunting images in the past, but Paul Brown was the first artist to accurately portray the polo pony in action. This ability to capture an action scene of both horse and rider in unusual (and sometimes contorted) positions was a Brown trademark" (p. 21, Paul Brown: Master of Equine Art, by M.L. Biscotti. Derrydale Press, 2010). By 1933, Brown had established himself as one of the leading American illustrators of equestrian art, having lent his talent to numerous commercial illustration projects, books (many of which he both wrote and illustrated himself), and prominent publications such as The Sportsman, Collier's and Cosmopolitan. Brown also had a long and fruitful relationship with Brooks Brothers, designing and illustrating their catalogues for over thirty years.
