The walls of The Willcox are beaming with equestrian pride

this month, as the Chish-olm Gallery, a leading international dealer of sporting art, has brought an exhibition of more than 20 artists from

all over the world.Paintings, drawings, sculp-

tures, needlepoint collec-tions, vintage photographs, pearls, botanical water colors, lithographs, caricatures and more are on display and sale throughout the hotel for the rest of the month.

Chisholm Gallery owner Jeanne Chisholm said, in her business, she strives for a mix of fine art from new and established artists in a variety of media and subject matter.

One of Chisholm’s favorite exhibits in the gallery is that of Susan Smolensky, an art-ist who depicts Steeplechase horses and scenes.

“She has captured a dyna-mism that nobody else has,” said Chisholm of Smolensky. “The elevation, the angle at which she depicts the steeple-chase horses jumping – she really makes you feel like you’re right there with her, right there in the moment of the jump or landing.”

Also on exhibit are Freudy vintage photographs. These photographs depict equestrian and society images taken more than a half century ago.

“A lot of (the images) depict scenes of polo at Meadowbrook for the Inter-national Game, but also polo here (in Aiken) in the 1930s,” said Chisholm. “Freudy cap-tures moment that are such indelible imprints.”

American and French bronze statues are also on display. Besides equestrian art sculptures, American sculp-tors Tammy Bality and Patty Davis also create a similar type of suggestive art.

“It’s interesting, we have two sculptors depicting bulls and bears for Wall Street and the fluctuation of the market,” said Chisholm. “It’s really kind of interesting when you think of how cosmopolitan this collection is.”

Other exhibits in the gallery include a collection of vintage Stork Club menus and limited edition photos and medal-lions, individually crafted freshwater pearls by Passport

Pearls and artwork by local artist Louise Mellon.

Mellon paints out of her home studio where the ponies, cats, dogs and chick-ens are encouraged in as live models, and also paints polo and general equine art.

The exhibition will run until the end of February in the main lobby of The Will-cox and the Hunt Room and is free and open to the public for viewing.

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20-plus artists featured in Willcox exhibition

Works featured in The Willcox:

• Michael Antonio Ponce, American contemporary, paintings and drawings

• Frederique Lavergne, French contemporary, paintings

• Tammy Bality, Ameri-can contemporary, sculp-tures

• Celou Bonnet, French contemporary, sculptures, featured in the Glass Vitrine

• Catherine Ingleby, Brit-ish contemporary, paintings

Featured Artists:• Susan Smolensky,

American contemporary, paintings

• Patty Davis, American contemporary, sculptures

• Mary Bridgman, American contemporary, paintings, photography and illustration

• Louise Mellon, Ameri-can contemporary, paint-ings

• Paul Desmond Brown, American 1893-1958, illus-trations

• Leslie Shiels, American contemporary, canine cul-ture paintings

Works in the Hunt Room:

• Henry Koehler, Ameri-can contemporary, limited edition polo lithographs

• Francesco Scavullo, photographs

• Hazel Morgan, British contemporary, limited edi-tions

• Jonathan Routh, British• Soren Froberg, Swedish

botanical photographs• Asuka Hishiki, Japa-

nese contemporary, botani-cal watercolors

• Tsolmon Damba, Mon-golian contemporary, paint-ings

• Rollin McGrail, Ameri-can contemporary, limited edition prints

• Enrique Castro, Argen-tine Contemporary, oil on paper polo portraits

• Freudy vintage pho-tographs; equestrian & society

Also in the Hunt Room:• Freudy vintage photo-

graphs; equestrian and soci-ety The Alexander Needle Point Collection

• Freudy vintage pho-tographs; equestrian and society Stork Club Limited Edition Treasures

• Freudy vintage photo-graphs; equestrian and soci-ety Passport Pearls

Master list of artists on display at The Willcox:

Mellon

Submitted photosSusan Smolensky’s “Coming in for a Landing.”

Tammy Bality’s “The Dun” bronze. Patty Davis’ “Wall Street Rodeo” bronze.

This medallion is one of 500 limited edition Stork Club orna-ments for sale at the Chisholm Gallery this month at The Will-cox. The ornament and stand are cushioned inside a custom red box with a gold Stork Club logo on the cover.

“The Great Hitchcock,” a Freudy vintage photograph.

Louise Mellon’s “Spring Brake.”

Louise Mellon’s “Love Among Friends.”