FOR HORSE PEOPLE • ABOUT HORSE PEOPLE
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Art
An oil portrait entitled “Snowman and Harry” is now part of the
permanent collection of the International Museum of the Horse at
the Kentucky Horse Park. The painting by Joan Porter Jannaman,
of Lakehill Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, was presented to
the Museum in July during a ceremony preceding the start of the
Rood and Riddle $50,000 Grand Prix.
In the rarefied world of 1950s show jumping, Snowman and
Harry de Leyer were the longest of long shots and their wins
became the stuff of legend. The former plow horse bought by
Harry for $80 off a truck bound for the slaughterhouse would rise
to the top of the show jumping world, winning the 1958 horse show
Triple Crown — the American Horse Shows Association Horse
of the Year, Professional Horseman’s Association Champion
and Champion of Madison Square Garden’s Diamond Jubilee. In
2011, their story became the subject of Elizabeth Letts’ #1
New
York Times
bestseller,
The Eighty-Dollar Champion
.
“It’s been an honor to have even a small part of celebrating
the story of Snowman and Harry,” said Joan, who made certain
to ask Harry for his input once the portrait was well underway. “It
brought tears to my eyes,” Harry told Joan. “You got the slope of
his shoulder that made him such a good jumper. And his eyes,
they are perfect – the soft eyes that I first noticed about him. It is
exactly Snowman.”
Snowman Jumps Into
The International
Museum of the Horse
Joan’s artwork has been published in numerous magazines
and publications including
Sidelines
,
The Chronicle of the Horse
,
Horses in Art
,
Polo Players Edition
and
Steeplechase Times
. Most
recently her paintings have been chosen to show in the American
Academy of Equine Art’s Fall Open Juried Show and the Best and
the Brightest Show in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Limited edition giclee prints of “Snowman and Harry” are
available for purchase at
with 100% of
the proceeds being donated to support the Kentucky Horse Park
Foundation and The Kentucky Equine Humane Center.
For more information, contact Joan Jannaman: jpj@
lakehillstudio.com or
