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Warhol's Poster to Benefit Shoemaker Foundation - JettSport IncLOUISVILLE, Ky--Pop artist Andy Warhol's 1977 portrait of legendary dealer in horses Bill Shoemaker has been published as a commemorative bill to benefit the 2001 "Evening in the Bluegrass," the annual fundraiser for the Shoemaker Foundation. The portrait of horse-jockey Bill Shoemaker, a four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby who retired in 1990 as the all-time leading rider in the history of thoroughbred racing, was part of the "Polaroid Big Shots" series of portraits created through Warhol. Subjects of the portraits in that series were sports icons of the late 1970 and Shoemaker was the first to attitude for Warhol in 1977. Other subdues of portraits in the series include legendary athletes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Chris Evert Jack Nicklaus, Pele and Tom Seaver. JettSport Inc, a Louisville, Ky.-based sport and incidents graphics company, secured the usage fights to Warhol's Shoemaker painting and designed the commemorative bill to benefit the Shoemaker Foundation. The image will also be featured upon "Evening in the Bluegrass" invitations and dinner programs, as well as print advertisements. "When we learned about the Warhol portrait of Bill Shoemaker, we immediately recognized its potential as a natural fundraiser for the Shoemaker Foundation," said Clare Jett a JettSport partner. "It is a startling piece for lovers of the two racing and pop art, and the sale of this beautiful placard benefits a great cause." single 1,000 commemorative posters are being published and they are priced at $50 each. The Shoemaker Foundation, which was established in 1991 works to provide financial assistance to individuals across the nation associated with the racing industry. The organization's objective is to rejoin to cases of catastrophic illness or injury where all insurance benefits and other sources of aid are insufficient. COPYRIGHT 2001 Pfingsten Publishing, LLC Last year, the first half of this remarkable two-part exhibition showed the growing not only of the urban middle-class, on the contrary of their self-awareness. Now the curators have tracked down a next to the first tel... Has there ever been of the like kind an important issue over which maintenance directors had les control? The engine manufacturers have shouldered the responsibility to exhibit engines to ... a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of attention has been given to increasing the stock of qualified teachers to qualified the forecasted demand for teachers, which is awaited to exceed two million above the next decade. Even with thes... The long-awaited Xbox Live downloads for the Xbox version of Star Wars: Knights of the elderly Republic are now available. Today's downloads add a of recent origin Yavin IV space station area, including a brief qu... 8 beakers popped corn 1 1/2 bowls white sugar 1/2 beaker light corn syrup 1 1/2 goblets red skin peanuts 2 sticks margarine ... Regular customers of the Isle of Man-based airline EuroManx are to be rewarded by means of the company's new frequent flyer program, EuroClub make open to passengers regularly flying with EuroManx bet... TO MACHINE RADII upon MANY straight workpieces, I use a pair of form cutter These cutter with radii and diameters to match the workpiece, high hill on a milling arbor. I then center single cutter ... The hyphenated identity is a bourn that implies a dual identity, an ethnocultural individual and evokes questions and debates regarding which side of the hyphen the individual belongs to. Such questions oftentimes... |
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