BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Richmond -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts -- Sporting Life

VA -- Richmond -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts -- Sporting Life:

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Description of Subject Matter: The Paul Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art:
During his lifetime, Paul Mellon (1907-1999) amassed the most important collection of British art outside of England. In 1985 he gave a significant part of his British sporting art collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and supervised the original installation to reflect his aesthetic ideals. In British art in general and also in sporting art, Mr. Mellon perceived an honesty and directness that were congenial to his taste and way of life.
The first British work Paul Mellon bought, in 1936, was Pumpkin with Stable Lad painted by 18th-century artist George Stubbs and now at the Yale center for British Art. However, he did not begin to collect British art seriously until 1959 when then VMFA director Leslie Cheek persuaded him to chair the organizing committee for the exhibition Sport and the Horse, which opened at this museum the following year. Almost as soon as he began collecting, Mr. Mellon decided that his collection would enter the public domain. He chose the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Yale Center for British Art as the primary destinations for his unrivaled collection of British art.
Mr. Mellon also became a great horseman himself (he called horses his "one great recreation in life"). As an owner he had spectacular successes not only in U.S. races, including those of the Triple Crown, but also in the English Derby and the French Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Additionally, he hunted extensively with horses, and this activity represented his nostalgic belief in the natural world as a source of value and sustenance.
"Hunting is another example of the reaction which has set up inside me against business, the city, modern industrial drabness, the suppression of the natural emotions and feelings... It involves the use of the horse, that instinctive animal, and man's mastery of the horse."
-- Paul Mellon, 1992
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