Milton Menasco Sun Shines Bright Lithograph Kentucky Derby Churchill Downs 26"

Description

Vintage 1971 pencil signed lithograph print supertitled “Impressions of the American Turf...Number Three...Churchill Downs” featuring the horse race painting “The Sun Shines Bright” by Milton Menasco. Copyright by the Holly Publishing Company, Print No. 36, pencil signed by the artist. “Born in Los Angeles, California in 1890, Menasco became a painter of equestrian subject, after working in Los Angeles and having a successful career in New York City with an advertising agency.

He moved to Kentucky in 1948 and was there for the remainder of his life, dying in 1974. He earned a reputation for being able to depict accurately the anatomy of horses and for showing them in natural stances and attitudes. Many of his paintings had backgrounds of horse farms.”

Condition

Good Overall - Wear to frame

Dimensions

26” x 2” x 22” / Sans Frame - 23.5” x 19.5” (Width x Depth x Height)