{"id":2760,"date":"2009-11-17T05:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2010-08-05T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T22:25:10","slug":"original-orren-mixer-painting-of-wimpy-p-1-sells-for-120000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/original-orren-mixer-painting-of-wimpy-p-1-sells-for-120000\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Orren Mixer Painting of Wimpy P-1 Sells for $120,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The American Quarter Horse Journal, November 16, 2009<\/em> – On Sunday, November 15, an original painting of Wimpy P-1 sold at the 2009 American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show Sale for $120,000. The legendary painting by the late American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member Orren Mixer was purchased by Hendrik and Lettie Smeding of Pope Valley, California, via telephone bid.<\/p>\n

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The painting was commissioned by Rex Cauble, the last recorded owner of Wimpy P-1, the first horse registered with the American Quarter Horse Association at its founding. It was consigned by Reynolds and Lisa Moreland of Mays Lick, Kentucky, who purchased the painting from Cauble prior to his death in 2003.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had inquiries about the painting,\u201d Reynolds said about his decision to sell the painting, the original of an iconic image of Wimpy P-1 used publicly for decades. \u201cI had people approach me to give it away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI approached Mike Jennings (of Professional Auction Services Inc.) last year and asked him, \u201c’Have you ever thought about auctioning artwork?\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cAfter Mr. Mixer passed away, I had people show an interest. I told Mike what my idea was, he said this might be something we could do.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Selling the painting at the World Show Sale) in my opinion, that was going to be the best audience, the largest audience in one spot that would be interested in it,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s my understanding that none of Mr. Mixer\u2019s paintings have ever sold (at public auction), it was all commission work.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the gavel fell Sunday at the World Show sale, Hendrik and Lettie Smeding were the new owners of this historic painting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe plan to keep it and enjoy it,\u201d Lettie said. \u201cWe\u2019re pretty excited. It was one of those things when we saw it in the sale, we just decided let\u2019s see if we can get it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Smedings own a ranch in Napa County, and have horses and cattle, and recently acquired a new stallion, Dual Star Cat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe like Quarter Horse art and all kinds of horse art,\u201d Lettie said. \u201cIt was a good fit and good timing.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that it was exciting to see a painting of the late Orren Mixer go through public auction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were hopeful and really surprised (to get it),\u201d she said. \u201cGrowing up and seeing this painting and photographs of the painting, it was just something that stood out in my mind that it would be neat to have: the No. 1 horse!\u201d<\/p>\n

AQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on\u00a0The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal<\/em> or\u00a0America\u2019s Horse<\/em>, visit\u00a0www.aqha.com\/magazines<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Quarter Horse Journal, November 16, 2009 – On Sunday, November 15, an original painting of Wimpy P-1 sold at the 2009 American Quarter Horse Association World Championship Show Sale for $120,000. The legendary painting by the late American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame member Orren Mixer was purchased by Hendrik and Lettie Smeding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqha","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}