2021 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 63
63
Tim Cox (b. 1957)
God’s Gift to Man (2018)
oil on canvas
24 × 48 inches
signed and dated lower left
Describing this painting the artist wrote, “The light coming through the clouds is what Suzie and I call ‘God Light.’ There is an old Bedouin legend that says, ‘And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew his breath over it and created the horse.’ Therefore, the horse is ‘God’s Gift to Man.’”
EXHIBITED
The 46th Annual Prix de West Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2018
LITERATURE
Art of the West Magazine, November / December 2018, cover, pp. 30-31, illustrated