Sam Savitt
Encyclopedia
Sam Savitt was an equine artist and author, as well as an illustrator of over 100 books. He was the official illustrator of the United States Equestrian Team
, and a founding member of the American Academy of Equine Artists. He created several horse charts that are considered authoritative works and have been used by the Smithsonian Institution
.
United States Equestrian Team
The United States Equestrian Team, or USET, was founded in 1950 at the Coates estate on van Beuren Road in Morristown, New Jersey, and is the international equestrian team for the United States...
, and a founding member of the American Academy of Equine Artists. He created several horse charts that are considered authoritative works and have been used by the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
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Author
- Vicki and the Brown Mare
- Vicki and the Black Horse
- Great Horses of the United States Equestrian Team
- Draw Horses with Sam Savitt
- Midnight
- Wild Horse Running
Illustrator
- About Horses by Luther Dexter
- Big Jump for Robin by Suzanne Wilding
- Born to Race by Blanche Chenery Perrin
- Horseback Riding (A Sports Illustrated book)
- Lad: A DogLad, A DogLad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first published in magazines, the novel is loosely based on the life of Terhune's real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902, the real-life Lad was an unregistered...
by Albert Payson TerhuneAlbert Payson TerhuneAlbert Payson Terhune was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies.-Biography:Albert Payson...
(1959 anniversary edition) - The Gallant Gray Trotter by John T. Foster
- Two Dogs and a Horse by Jim KjelgaardJim KjelgaardJames Arthur Kjelgaard was an American author of young adult literature.Born in New York City, New York, Jim Kjelgaard is the author of more than forty novels, the most famous of which is 1945's Big Red. It sold 225,000 copies by 1956 and was made into a 1962 Walt Disney film with the same title,...
- Wild Horse Tamer by Glenn Balch
- Summer Pony by Jean Slaughter Doty