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Catherine Garypie and Fred Moss include Officer Fahey in a conversation about the Horses of Honor
When East Village resident Catherine Garypie went to the Horses of Honor Auction last week at the Hyatt Regency, 151 East Wacker, Grand Ballroom, she looked, with some envy, at the 16 painted horses, honoring injured and fallen Chicago Police Officers. In fact three of the horses tie to Chicago's near northwest side.
Layne Jackson, prepares to work as the horse gazes out her studio window*
Garypie had been following the journey of another East Villager, Layne Jackson, who was one of the project artists. Starting last June, Jackson and other artists were selected to paint a horse by the Horse of Honor project headed by Bill Bracken, a principal with Agency360. Each 100 pound life-size (6 feet tall, 6 feet long and nearly 3 feet wide) horse is sculpted of fiberglass.
Fahey on watch on Michigan Ave.
The night of the auction, Garypie opened the bidding on Jackson's horse at $500 but was quickly taken out of the process by other bidders. She missed out on the auction and was resigned to being horseless. Then numbers were drawn for the raffle, her whole future changed.
Officer William P. Fahey
"Officer Fahey [William P. Fahey , Star # 4194] is now at home in my living room," explains Garypie, who invited Fred Moss, the Fahey artist, to dinner. Moss was happy to reconnect with his "friend" Fahey, who was sponsored by Chicago Sports & Novelty.
Graphic designer and artist, Moss generally works on canvas with oil and found that the first day of working with the horse was all about materials. The challenge was in getting the correct primer. Painting a straight skyline on a curved surface provided his next challenge.
