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First Friday September 5th New Original Oil "The Incredible Journey" by Donna Walsh Take a visual journey with Pedee, Mork and Mindy. Pedee is a Rat Terrier and his two baby goslings go into a new world of wonder. Truly, visual eye candy for the soul. "A feel good piece"
"Dash for Cash"
Dash for Cash, oil painting by nationally acclaimed artist and jockey, Donna Walsh. Painting depicts a race at local Grants Pass Downs Race Track. Thomas Kirchen’s love of Grants Pass and his desire to help both the Grants Pass Downs and Grants Pass Fair Grounds has prompted him to allow Donna to use his photograph as refence material for “Dash for Cash” To view Thomas Kirchen's web site click here Donna has graciously offered to donate 100% of her profits from the sale of "Dash for Cash" reproductions. Proceeds will go to the Grants Pass Downs Race Track. Treasured Memories will donate 25% of their profit to the Grants Pass Fair Grounds. If all 250 Giclee` prints sell out the race track would receive over 32K and the Fair Grounds well over $11K if the limited edition of 250 sells out. Treasured Memories is located at 420 SW 6th Street in Grants
Pass. 479-5982 1-800-789-5982 We would really appreciate it if your news paper would announce
this in hope of making money for the fair grounds and race track. One hundred percent of artist profits from the purchase of a giclee` of this piece shall go to benefit the Grants race track. Twenty-Five percent of the galleries profits from this piece will go to the Fairgrounds. Donna will be featured in a two hour documentary “Jock the Movie” about the first female jockeys in history, under her maiden name Hillman. To read about the documentary click on the following links. http://www.jockthemovie.com/dhillman.html The following article is from The Grants
Pass Daily Courier Front Page NewsLast Update Monday, June 23, 2008A passion
for ponies and paint: Pioneering jockey's painting to benefit Grants
Pass Downs Donna Hillman won dozens of horse races at Belmont, Aqueduct, Gulfstream and other big-time East Coast tracks in the early 1970s. She went head to head with Angel Cordero, Ron Turcotte and other male jockeys. She broke in just two years after Diane Crump became the first female to ride in a pari-mutuel race in the United States. Her pinup looks also landed her on television commercials for A&W Root Beer, Burger Chef and Lady Clairol. And she's one of 11 pioneer women jockeys to be featured in a documentary "Jock" being shot this summer. "They used to yell at me to go home and do the dishes," she recalled, and she thinks it's great that women have won numerous jockey titles at Grants Pass Downs over the years. Today, the 59-year-old Applegate Valley resident, now Donna Walsh, would like to help her local horse track by selling 250 reproductions of an oil painting she's just about finished. She modeled "Dash for Cash" after a photograph taken by Thomas Kirchen in 2007, showing three thoroughbreds barreling around down the clubhouse turn at Grants Pass Downs. "The track was good to me, why not give something back to the town I love?" said Walsh, whose work is on display at Treasured Memories in downtown Grants Pass. The painting should be unveiled on First Friday weekend,
which is actually July 11 because of the July 4 holiday. The special
reproductions, known as Giclees, will sell for $295, $495 and $695
and should be ready by late July, Walsh said. All of Walsh's proceeds
will benefit Grants Pass Downs, and Treasured Memories owner Carol
Rhodes will donate 25 percent of her take to the Josephine County
Fairgrounds. They hope to raise more than $40,000. Walsh started early in her two passions, horses and painting. When Walsh was 14 and living outside Los Angeles, she sold her first two paintings and bought a horse, Tawni, and trained it to do tricks and later galloped it at the track. One day at Santa Anita or Hollywood Park, she can't remember, a friend of her father's suggested she get into horse racing, and eventually introduced her to trainer Willard Proctor. She walked horses on the hot-walker, and bugged Proctor to let her gallop. Proctor promised to put her on horses if she helped handle horses on a cross-country flight to Saratoga in New York, but he reneged. Hillman stayed on the East Coast, hooked up with another trainer and began turning heads with her skills galloping horses. But women had just cracked the gender barrier at the track, and she had trouble getting in a race. She said she had to prove her strength by beating men in arm wrestling, stories verified by her former agent Tony Passaro, now 82 and living in New York. A writer she out-wrestled wrote, "She's so strong she could hold an elephant away from a bale of hay." Walsh to this day has a crushing grip. Passaro finally got her in a race, on Oct. 11, 1971, at Belmont Park, riding Till Hold. She lost by a nose. "They all thought I was crazy," Passaro recalled. "They said, 'Tony don't you feel the shame in bringing a girl around.' She proved herself." In 1972 she tore up the track at Atlantic City, with the highest win percentage. "She took on riders that were tough riders, challenged and beat them," Passaro said. Walsh grew tired of the business and quit in 1976 after a five-year run, saying it was difficult for women to get equal treatment in horse racing. "She was as good as anybody," Passaro said, adding that "It should have been Donna," instead of Julie Krone to be the first woman to win a Triple Crown race. Krone won the Belmont Stakes in 1993 aboard Colonial Affair. Walsh moved to Grants Pass after living in California, Texas and New York because she loves the mountains of Oregon. Walsh has many paintings at Treasured Memories, at 420 S.W. Sixth St., focusing on portraits, wildlife and western scenes. If you have any questions about the artists we carry or comments about our site please take a moment & sign our guestbook a Treasured Memories Representative will answer all your questions.
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