Ann Collins (April 29, 1916 - January 6, 1999) was an American artist of thoroughbred racehorses. Ann Collins was born in Lyons, raised in Colorado and although lived in many places during her life she returned to Lyons, NY in 1975, where she lived New York until her death.
Ann Collins was commissioned to paint more than seventy-five of the leading racehorses of her time, including Citation, commissioned by Nat Herzfeld former President of Tropical Park Race Course, Chrysler II and By Jimminy for Walter P. Chrysler, Dom Bingo for Bing Crosby, Tom Fool for Jock Whitney, and Discovery and Bed o'Roses for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr.
Her painting of "Rouge Dragon" is part of the permanent collection of The National Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Each lonely scene shall thee restore;
For thee the tear be duly shed;
Beloved till life can charm no more,
And mourn’d till Pity’s self be dead.”
—William Collins (1721–1759)