Fine Harness Horse Sculpture - Art by Patricia Crane

The Fine Harness horse sculpture, displayed below, is museum quality, and an unusual collector's piece that captures the fine elegance and heart of a show champion in harness, 'set up' and sporting the tri-color.

The Fine Harness Horse sculpture captures the magic of the individual horse who can wear a harness well and who displays a fine spirited inner style. The brilliance of action in fine harness is suitable, they can move and "look through the bridle", and are competitive in the fine harness horse classes of today's show world. Patricia Crane has been sculpting horses for decades and her work is well known -- from life size portraits at the Kentucky Horse Park, to smaller works in collections world wide.

Fine Harness Horse Tradition in Sculpture and in Life

Fine Harness horse sculpture has existed for decades, but not nearly as long as the history of the harness horse himself, who has been highly valued throughout world history and were well-used partners in mankind's efforts to establish his civilizations. The outright pride ! In these days, horses are often driven for pleasure, but in the world of today's show ring, the most elegant of harness horses are shown in the fine harness classes.

In Fine Harness horse sculpture and in the live Fine Harness classes , horses display more animation and brilliance than in other driving classes and sport a natural mane and tail. Hitched to a four wheeled buggy, they perform at a fine animated walk, and an elegant but animated park trot. In Fine Harness, manners and brilliance are top considerations in judging. How does he "wear the harness" and look through the bridle? Does he display that fine high style along with manners? Valued over speed, such elegance, animated movements and style have become in many cases a symbol for our own, and some owners or breeders carry that pride and love on into the commission of a Fine Harness horse sculpture. Such sculpture can be found in private homes and collections and also in museums around the entire world.

Patricia Crane has been sculpting horses for decades and her work is well-known, being in many private, public and museum collections in many countries of the world. Two life size sculptures can be seen as frontispieces for two museums at the Kentucky Horse Park.


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