Watercolor, Graphite

Ink sketch of a horse and a carriage holding hay. The sketch is done after Leslie Cope's painting titled "Loading the Horse Drawn Wagon" done in 1948. The work is signed and dated by the artist. It is framed in a black frame with an off-white matte.

Leslie Cope was a prolific artist dedicated to his work and committed to the simple virtues of rural life, seascapes and landscapes in the United States and in his native England. He has been selling his art since the 1930's. Popular among his works are subjects that deal with the common work horse, country scenes, barnyards, coal mining from the early 1930's, bridges, rural landscapes, village sketches, fair and carnival scenes, and canal studies to mention a few. Cope faithfully recorded southeast Ohio and loved to return often to Mt Hope and Millersburg. Cope returned annually to Gloucester Massachusetts to paint seascapes, harbor scenes, and rows of fishing boats with his wife Velma. They also made frequent trips to western states, reveling in the sights of small herds of roaming mustang and wild horses they found and sketched. Cope painted desert towns as well as Indian encampments. His works are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Library of Congress, and Capitol University. He has had one-man shows in the Library of Congress and The Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Copes works have been recognized in England and Paris, and in 1975 he was named to Who's Who in America.

H 18.5 in. x W 21.25 in. x D 1.25 in.

H 27 in x W 21.5 in.