COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS

POLO
Written and illustrated by
Paul Brown
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949.

Though it's a 52-year-old book, Polo is a timeless classic because of Brown's superb drawings. The horses and riders depicted could easily be 21st-century players in the arena.

Paul Brown (1893-1958) was known as one of America's most prominent illustrators of horse books for adults and children alike. His sharp line drawings and paintings accurately depicted horses and riders in motion with terrific detail.

Polo is a manual on the great game of polo. Brown produced 70 pages of black and white drawings to illustrate various point of the game, plus illustrations of famous players making difficult shots.

Robert E. Strawbridge Jr., then Chairman of the U.S. Polo Association, wrote in the foreword: "Paul Brown has been a friend and student of the game for many years, with the result that he is an authority on the finer points of play. To this knowledge he adds a unique ability to portray the typical polo scene in a manner that has never failed to strike a sympathetic note with both spectator and player alike."