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        3. Oklahoma artist Orren Mixer was commissioned to paint the ideal Quarter Horse, known now as “the Mixer horse.” – AQJHA.
        4. Pictured is one of the many great paintings by American Quarter Horse Hall of Famer Orren Mixer.

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          Renowned equine artist Orren Marion Mixer, whose portraits of western stock horses are distinctly recognizable, died on April 29 at 87 years old.

          Mixer’s celebrity as a well-known western artist started during the 1950s and 1960s.

          Livestock, particularly horses, became his specialty, and his work graced the covers of Western Horseman, Quarter Horse Journal, Cattleman, and Oklahoma Today. In 1968, the American Quarter Horse Association commissioned Mixer to paint “the ideal American Quarter Horse,” and six other breed associations followed suit.

          He depicted the ideal Pinto, Paint, Palomino, Appaloosa, Buckskin, and Pony of the Americas.

          Briefly retired during the 1980s, Mixer resumed his artistic productions in the mid-1990s, working from a studio near Arcadia, Okla.

          He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association Hall of Fame in 1993.

          Mixer was born in Oklahoma City in 1920 to Florence Motter and Orren Marion Mixer Sr. After attending public sc