THE DENVER POST Wednesday, July 7, 1954
Artist Discusses Painting
COWBOY PAINTER VERN PARKER
Artist displays wares in City museum
Cowboy Artist Shows Paintings at Museum Now in Denver with a free, public showing of his original canvases, Vern Parker, cowboy sculptor and painter of beautiful horses, is appearing daily in the main lounge of the Denver Museum of Natural History, City park. Parker, whose home is Benson, Ariz., came her Tuesday from Hugo, Colo., where he had just completed a large mural painting featuring the old Butterfield stagecoach that ran through Hugo to Denver on the Smoky Hill trail in pre-railroad times. The mural will decorate a pioneer museum to be guilt in Hugo.
Fourteen of Parker's oil paintings are on display in the museum lounge. They are the originals from which the familiar giant colored postcards are reproduced. They include the "Palomino Stallion" of which more than 6 million copies have been sold in postcard form. Parker painted the scenes for the Petley Studios of Phoenix, Ariz., publishers. Other originals here are "Time Out For Lunch," a donkey picture; "White Stallion in the Moonlight," "King of the Range," "Battle of the Stallions," "Packing on the Trail" and a newly-completed original "Bronc Rider", showing a cowboy atop a furiously bucking mount. The Parker cards, especially popular with boys and girls, are sold regularly in the museum lobby, and during his week's stay here Parker stands ready to autograph them on request for museum visitors. The pictures will remain on display in the second floor lounge all this month Parker is equally well known for his wood carvings of beautiful horses.
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"Hast thou given the horse his might?
Hast thou clothed his neck with the quivering mane?" Job 39:19 ASV
