re: 3 horse heads

[dave & abby bloxsom <cyclone@snet.net>]

> A local artist, Bonnie Shields, "The Tennessee Mule Artist", has done a
> really, really cute takeoff on that print by copying it wonderfully but
> turning the horses' heads into mules' heads :-)  Her original pencil is framed
> in a local art shop, and on the matteboard at the bottom she has drawn the
> three mules trotting across the desert, laughing braying mule laughs back at
> the Arab man in full robe panting after them with halters in hand :-D  I think
> prints are $20 or $25, not sure what the original is but I can check if anyone
> is interested.  If you've seen Leanin' Tree cards with mules on them they are
> probably Bonnie's work.
> 
> Karen Bratcher
> Hayden ID

My mother, Nancy Nemec (a famous printmaker and former distance rider)
also did a more serious "homage" to this painting - an etching/engraving
- called "Drinkers of the Wind".  The three horses were actually ones
that we had at the time, and were our first "distance" horses!

For what it's worth.

Glad to know more about the original.

-Abby B