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8.00" x 4.50"
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10.00" x 6.50"
Bailey Poster
by Jill Westbrook
$37.35
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Bailey poster by Jill Westbrook. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
Design Details
Since he was a weanling bull calf, Bailey lived at Horsefeathers Farm with Sam & Jane Earnest. He was trained to ride & would bow gracefully when... more
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Artist's Description
Since he was a weanling bull calf, Bailey lived at Horsefeathers Farm with Sam & Jane Earnest. He was trained to ride & would bow gracefully when asked. He died at the ripe old age of 17, January 2014. He would have been 18 on August 23 of that year. When he died, his horn span reached 103 inches...4.2 inches longer than the one in the Guinness Book of World Records.
About Jill Westbrook
Parts of my story are integral to why I do what I do, what motivates me and the emotions and ideas I am trying to convey through my work. CS Lewis said, in Till We Have Faces... The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing, to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from, my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing...The longing for home...For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back. My mother told people the first thing I ever drew was a horse before I was three in the dust on the kitchen floor of the little white clapboard parsonage in the North Woods of Wisconsin. In 1963, our family took a trip Out West to Vancouver, BC,...
Angela Davies
Beautiful watercolor work, FL
Jill Westbrook replied:
Thank you so much, Angela! I do appreciate your comments!
Barbara Keith
how's he hold his head up?? That really looks heavy.. beautiful work!
Jill Westbrook replied:
Ha HA! You should have seen him walk...He would sway that head back and forth and it never ceased to amaze me how he could maneuver to get into the little pole barn with his buddy Jeremiah, the brahma to get out of the rain.