Sporting Art | Thoroughbred Bronze Sculpture - Art by Patricia Crane

Sporting Art is valued the world over, and Thoroughbred bronze is highly collected. The elegant but substantive look of a Thoroughbred bronze is as distinctive as the horse itself, with various characteristics evident in various family lines. Throughout centuries and into the future Sporting Art strives to capture, honor and share the nobility of a sporting animal so very deep through the heart - a role model for us all.

The sporting art genre Thoroughbred bronze displayed below is by Patricia Crane (see life size bronzes at The Kentucky Horse Park). This sculptor's bronzes are of museum quality and are in both private and museum collections the world over.

Sporting Art & The Thoroughbred

It is safe to say that a Thoroughbred bronze honors the TB horses, with their consistent heart and courage, that have taken the world by storm as well as the hearts of mankind. It is then no wonder at all that the Thoroughbred being an integral part of the sporting world has meaning to sporting art collectors far beyond any measurable value.

The sporting art world of the equine includes individual sports but the Thoroughbred in sheer class and accomplishment excels outstandingly. Sporting art can include racing and fox hunting, but both require speed, agility and the willingness to do, or heart and stamina. There are many warmblood horses today, but most all were developed with Thoroughbred blood and all strive for the characteristics displayed by the Thoroughbred and depicted by a Thoroughbred bronze. To succeed in sporting activities involving horses, those characteristics are extremely desirable, hence the ongoing popularity of Thoroughbred bronze in all sporting art. Equine Sporting artists strive to depict those same valued characteristics in their themes -- the same themes that endear horses to man in every instance of their long time partnership.


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