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Racing at Ainstree (Joyful Noise)
oil on canvas
This painting was originally done on commission for the owner of Joyful Noise. I did it from photos and, when done, left it at the Reston Art Gallery for him to pick up. When, after several weeks, he hadn't picked it up, I called, thinking he'd just been out of town. He said that he'd "learned that it was bad luck to paint a picture of a horse that was still running", and, when I questioned him closely, that he'd pay for it but he'd have to put it in a closet, and, when I questioned him still further, that the "horse just seems to jump out at you." (He'd been expecting a large field with little horses way in the background.) I told him that he didn't need to buy it and that I would sell it to someone else. It taught me a good lesson about contracts and make the purchaser of a commission pay as they go and making sure they knew what the painting was going to look like. I should have made him buy it. Won't someone buy this nice painting?