The Trail of Painted Ponies introduced Unity in the Summer of 2003. Unity was retired Sept 2004. The last pony manufactured was stamped with the # 2E/1945. That means that Westland Giftware made 21,945 Unity figurines.

Can you believe it took the artist 1,400 hours to complete Unity? The original life size sculpture. Wow!

Unity combines the imagery of the early Spanish explorers who brought the horse to American five centuries ago, with representations of the Native tribes whose culture was radically changed by the horse. The artist, a former fashion photographer, turned pop artist received the award for the most ambitious Trail of Painted Pony. To give his artwork monumental impact, Georges Monfils covered it with over a million and a half tiny Indian seed beads, applied one at a time! So impressive was the outcome, it was nominated for the Guinness Book of World Records. Of course, the seeds were only on the original sculpture, not this pony figurine.