Works of American Polo Pioneer Sue Sally Hale

Polo pioneer Sue Sally Hale is credited with breaking the gender barrier in American polo, when, after 20 years of trying, she gained membership in the sports national governing body.
By the time she had turned 11 years old she knew what she wanted to be, "a bronc buster or a polo player". The year was 1949. Unfortunately for Sue Sally, there was no organized polo for women after WWII, and women polo players weren't allowed to join the United States Polo Association (USPA). Thus began her epic journey, from swinging her polo mallet at rocks on a vacant lot, all the way to Polo's Hall of Fame.
A native Californian, Sue Sally was born with a talent for art. As a very young girl, she immortalized polo games, horses, and players she watched at the Riviera Polo Club near her home in Pacific Palisades. She went on to earn a BA in Illustration & Cartooning from San Fernando State College (Cal State Northridge) and then attended the famed Chouinard Art Institute of Los Angeles.
Throughout her life, Sue Sally worked with oil, pastels, pen, pencil, watercolor, and combinations of those, on a variety of media including canvas, paper, poster board, and interesting pieces of wood. Her subjects ranged from; animals in the wild to her personal animals, her friend's animals, scenes from her life as she lived it, and of course horses doing their sports; polo, dressage, jumping, steeplechase, racing, and broncs.
The Sue Sally Hale (SSH) Polo Foundation is honored to share this collection of work from American polo pioneer Sue Sally Hale. To learn more about Sue Sally visit SSHALE.COM .