Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will now be immortalized on the horse he rode in on. In his official portrait unveiling, Zinke, who famously came to his first day at the agency on horseback, is seen sitting atop a black and white horse, trotting through brush with a tree-lined butte in the background. The portrait is based on a photo taken of Zinke when he visited Bears Ears National Monument in 2017, a monument in Utah that was later shrunk by the Trump administration. Painted by Montana-based artist Brent Cotton, the portrait includes the insignia of Seal Team Six on Zinke's shoulder and the emblem of U.S. Park Police on the horse's martingale. The likeness was funded through private donations...MORE
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We all should recognize the official portrait is not a true likeness of Zinke because the hat is facing forward, while in real life Zinke, trying to impersonate a Westerner, mistakenly put his hat on backwards.
The article continues:
The official portrait was joined by an unofficial portrait that also shows Zinke again on horseback, this time holding a sickle while his horse rears up in response to a fanged snake in the foreground. The unofficial portrait is based on the painting "Death Dealer 6" by fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, which sold for $1.79 million in 2018 and features a mythic warrior wearing a tri-horned helmet.
The real snake in that painting is not the one in the foreground.
2 comments:
Oh, come on Frank ... he was merely trying to memorize the chorus of the sleepy bill anderson song, Walk out Backwards. Remember, "So walk out backwards and I'll think you're walking in" fit that self acclaimed Shaka remembrance perfectly. He could watch his shadow coming and going.
you mean admire his shadow coming and going, right?
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