Gladys brown edwards biography examples

Gladys Brown Edwards "Classic Arabian" (), left;
Breyer "Classic Arabian Stallion" (), right

Breyer licensed the Hagen-Renaker, Inc. ceramic design for "Ferseyn," by Maureen Love, to produce their own Classic Arabian Stallion in

Breyer Classic Arabian stallion, left; Hagen-Renaker "Ferseyn," right

Top-heavy, balanced precariously on three tiny hooves, inches tall (off the base) and weighing in at almost pounds by himself (without the base), the GBE Classic Arabian is rather tippy and prone to breakage. 

This is evident in a letter from Cecil and Gladys Brown Edwards to the influential English Arabian horse breeder, Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth, in , a copy of which is at WKKAHL. 

The couple had mailed one of the "Classic Arabian" trophies to Lady Wentworth.

Gladys brown edwards biography examples Kellogg Arabian Horse Library, which contains a good summary of her life and career:. Advanced Search. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, guestbooks, scrapbooks, legal agreements, ephemera, and realia documenting the operation of the ranch as Kellogg's private home and its subsequent transfer to various institutions. The ranch was transferred to the California Polytechnic Colleges in and the breeding program was incorporated into the agriculture curriculum.

She had written to tell them it had been damaged in the post. Her letter is not in the WKKAHL collection. (Note the misspelled the name of her stud, Crabbet Park, in the reply.) 

So Lady Wentworth, Gladys, and Cecil would have understood just how prone the "Classic Arabian" trophy top is to being broken, as was the one I found at the estate sale. 

The trophy was very popular among Arabian horse lovers around the United States.

Here's a photo showing one of the trophies being awarded to Radamason in Michigan:

Here's a clipping from the Pomona, California Progress-Bulletin in October , showing one of the trophies, mounted on an elaborate base, being used as the W. K. Kellogg Perpetual Trophy of the Arabian Horse Breeders of Southern California. 

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For more information on Gladys Brown Edwards and her art, here are some links:

The "Finding Aid" for the Cecil and Gladys Brown Edwards Collection at the W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library, which contains a good summary of her life and career:  

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GBE "Farana" cowboy and horse design, part one:

Part Two:

Quarter Horse trophy designs by GBE:  

*Orzel painting by GBE:

Prewitt's fiberglass Quarter Horse:

"Parade Morgan" Bookends:

Morgan Horse Club of the West Trophy:  

US Arabian Nationals Trophy: 

Gladys Brown Edwards, Hagen-Renaker, and Maureen Love: