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Internationally Renowned Painter/Photographer Leland Neff to Donate Grand Prize at Pennsylvania Horse World Expo for the Retired Racehorse Training Project.
Leland Neff, internationally renowned artist and photographer, is donating the Grand Prize a 30" x 40" painting portrait in oil of the winning trainer's favorite horse.
ALBANY, NY, February 20, 2012 /AE PR News/ -- Internationally renowned painter/photographer Leland Neff to donate Grand Prize at Pennsylvania Horse World Expo for the Retired Racehorse Training Project.
Leland Neff, internationally renowned artist and photographer, is donating the Grand Prize a 30" x 40" painting portrait in oil of the winning trainer's favorite horse.
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Often praised as "the finest equestrian artist practicing today," Leland Neff brings an unusually fine precision of craftsmanship to the canvas and a luminance and vitality emerges into an animated painting with profound results. "Painting horses has always been a special joy to me," said Leland. The Retired Racehorse Training Project is dear to Leland's heart for it's effort to increase the demand for retired Thoroughbreds into second careers.
A prolific painter, Leland is known for his equestrian, animal and portrait paintings. Leland has commissions in the collections of equestrian world illuminaries such as Juddmonte Farms, multiple Eclipse Trainer of the Year, Todd Pletcher, Charlotte Weber of Live Oak Stud, Mimi and Thomas Voss, Theresa and Johnathan Behrendt with their NY Horse of the Year, Incurable Optimist, Grand Prix riders Todd Minikus and Kate Levy, Bonnie Stedt of Foxrace Farm and the Louries of Spy Coast Farm. Leland shows in galleries nationwide and has had a long successful career in editorial, advertising and fine art.
About Leland Neff:
Leland Neff's photos and drawings are in many books by publishers such as Doubleday, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Scholastic. He earned an AIGA Book Design award and illustrated a national best selling book. In the fashion world he has photographed and drawn the major European and American Collections; his work appears in leading magazines and newspapers such as GQ, Spanish GQ, L'Uomo Vogue, Vogue, Marie Claire, Miss Vogue, German Vogue, The Daily News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Elle. Leland's art is used extensively in worldwide merchandising campaigns for Levi's Dockers, Swatch Watch, Kenneth Cole, Revlon, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Clairol, and Sak's 5th Avenue, Barney's NY, Burberry's, Paul Stuart's, Broadway, with one of his ads voted Ad of the Year.
Leland's fine art shows on three continents at Frost and Reed, Cross Gate Gallery and Pratt Institute, as well at his own gallery in Saratoga Springs, New York.
www.retiredracehorse.org
www.horseworldexpo.com.
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