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A horse is majestic to watch and with power and agility, who wouldn’t want to capture a horse on canvas?

Ever since ancient civilizations when horse paintings and carvings appeared on cave walls man has had a love affair with horse art. Horse art spans many types including paintings, statues, literature, poetry and busts. Horse art can span the gamut between master artisan to the simple child’s illustration.

Horse art can be captured in different mediums including oil paintings, acrylics, watercolorists, sculptors, colored pencils, charcoal, pen and ink, glass art, textiles/fabric and of course photographers.

Photos:

Horses have been captured in photos from famous race winners to noble steeds, to the playful neighbors horse rolling around in the grass.

Famous photos include Seamus, the wonder horse; Lippazaner, the famous stallion Sandro and also Tom McNair & Sakr in the 5th Nationals.

There are many notable horse art artists including Dagmar Anderson, Carole Andreen-Harris, Megan Burford, Cholla, Debbie Dunbar, Graham Isom, Joan Larson, Joanne Mehl, Dee Dee Murry, Kathi Peters, Penelope Plumb, Sam Savitt, and also George Stubbs.

Artists have used many horse subjects such as dressage, driving, hunters and jumpers, Polo, Racing Saddleseat and Western Riding when capturing the spirit of horse art.

There are so many famous horse paintings, that it is difficult to name just a few.

Some of the most striking are: Whistlejacket, Hambletonian, Rubbing Down, Blue Horses, Red Horses and Small Yellow Horses. There are some famous cave paintings at Lascaux in France.

Famous Horse Saying by Famous People:

 Round-hoof’d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,
Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide,
High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide;
Look, what a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
William Shakespeare

 Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!
Robert Browning

 A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
IAN FLEMMING

Sculpture:

Horses of History were captured in sculpture such as the Tang Dynasty Horse with head bowed to the left. Horses were the pride of the emperors, as several sculptures were found.

Horses of Anahita by William Morris Hunt is in the Art Institute of Chicago and is a large wall sculpture.

Horses played an important role in ancient Greece in the Parthenon Games and are the subject of many statues.

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