Franklin Brooke Voss

Franklin Brooke Voss (1880–1953) was an American painter.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Franklin Brooke Voss was born in New York City in 1880.[4] He attended the Art Students League of New York, where George Bridgman was his teacher.[4]

He was commissioned paintings by the Whitneys, Riddles, Vanderbilts, Phippses, Wideners, and Willis Sharpe Kilmer.[1][2] He painted Man o' War, Equipoise, Seabiscuit, War Admiral, Sir Barton and Whirlaway.[1] Some of his work can be found at the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida.[5]

Bibliography

  • Peter Winants, The Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss (Eclipse Press, 2005)

References

  1. 1 2 3 National Museum of Racing exhibit
  2. 1 2 Christie's
  3. ↑ The British Sporting Art Trust
  4. 1 2 3 Chisholm Gallery
  5. ↑ Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame website, Introduction
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