Franklin Brooke Voss

Franklin Brooke Voss (1880–1953) was an American painter.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Franklin Brooke Voss was born in New York City in 1880.[4] He attended the Art Students League of New York, where George Bridgman was his teacher.[4]

He was commissioned paintings by the Whitneys, Riddles, Vanderbilts, Phippses, Wideners, and Willis Sharpe Kilmer.[1][2] He painted Man o' War, Equipoise, Seabiscuit, War Admiral, Sir Barton and Whirlaway.[1] Some of his work can be found at the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame in Lake Worth, Florida.[5]

Bibliography
  • Peter Winants, The Sporting Art of Franklin B. Voss (Eclipse Press, 2005)

References
  1. National Museum of Racing exhibit
  2. Christie's
  3. "The British Sporting Art Trust". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-01-21.
  4. Chisholm Gallery
  5. Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame website, Introduction
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