Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1957-10-31

SpeclallZeS IN norSeS, mas the dis
tlnction of having two samples of
her work presented to Queen Eliz-
abeth as gifts from Governor
Theodore McKeldin.
The most recent is a model of
the drum horse that walks ahead
of the royal coach during coro-
nations. This pottery piece, spc.
cially created by order of the Gov.
ernor, was presented, nicely-gift
wrapped in a glass case, when
the Queen was guest of the Gov
ernor at the Maryland football
game.
Several years ago when the
Queen Mother was guest of Gov.
ernor McKeldin, she accepted in
the name of her daughter another
lottery horse whose rider was
Elizabeth herself in the colorful
red and gold uniform for the
traditional ceremony of color
trouping by her Household
Guards regiment.
A model of this piece was be-
'ng deftly painted by Miss Wheel
err while we talked of her two
loves, sculpturing and horses.
The closest she herself expected
to come to the Queen was to
catch a glimpse of her that Satur-
day morning when Elizabeth II
visited the British Embassy.
Working in her north-lighted
studio behind her home at 4719
Dorset Avenue in "old" Somer-
set, Miss Wheeler is surrounded
by hundreds of examples of her
work.
Right here have to stop and
make confession. A black horse
near me caught my eye SO 1
leaned over and patted it with the
casual comment That's nice.
What's it made off"
Well, sir, would you believe 1t,
out of all those horses lining
The walls, managed to pick the
only horse that wasn't Miss
SVheeler's creation. 1t had Just
been left by friend to have its
tail mended.
On top Of that, Miss Wheeler's
opinion of it as a horse was very
ow. In fact she considered it a
horrible example of what people
can do when they don't really
know horses.
Ignoring my faux pas with true
British reserve she pointed out
that horses have distinct person
alitles and ways of expressing
their feelings.
A person who doesn't know and
Owe horses could very easily
paint one with an expression of
owe In his eyes while his ears
we're proclaiming disgust. This
can't be unless, of course, the
horse is suffering from schizo-
Dhrenia.
Miss Wheeler who was a girl in
he days when horse power was
United to one or two has made
I study of her friends that is still
continuing. The horses that she
I'D ten years ago make her I'M
lappy, she says, and she knows
hat the ones that she is doing
now will not satisfy her a few
years from now.
Born in Reading, 40 miles from
london on the road to Oxford,
Ter father ran the family bust.
ness, brick, tile and pottery
factory.
There was always fresh clay
AVAILABLE to the young Kathleen.
from the first she used it to por.
ray horses.
In fact, she says, Il drew horses
heads before / could write"
Her statue of Queen Elizabeth
IN horseback is an example of
the kind Of knowledge that is es-
iential for such portrayal.
The Queen is pictured as rid. |
ng sidesaddle and TO do this, Miss
Wheeler says you must have rid
len sidesaddle yourself.
No one can do horse who
Doesn't know that a horse walks
on one finger and one toe and
IAN show the balancing act that
his needs.
After she had finished her stud !
les at the Slade School at the
University Of London, Miss
wheeler came to Canada just be-
fore World War / TO visit her
sister.
The war caught her on this
side Of the ocean and when she
couldn't get home she crossed the
border to Chicago.
There she met her husband WI.
liam Il. II. Crump, an expatriate
Virginian with a hankering to re.
turn 10 his native land.
She also made her first con.
tact with Arthur Alderman and
Son, an old English firm dealing
in art and began to work on as.
signment for them.
Her horses at first didn't sell 50
she was forced to do busts but