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Rivera used tonal variations in the black and white Zapata to similar effect as he did color in the painted murals he used as its source material. In the lithograph, the lightest areas in Zapata's white clothing and the white body of the horse he leads are sharply delineated against the dark background and the mid tones of the clothing of ...
While living in Kentucky, Troye painted portraits and race horses for the local families in Georgetown, Kentucky. He worked primarily for the Steele and Alexander families, and Alexander "Keene" Richards. [2] Troye taught French and drawing at Spring Hill College, 1849–1855. [2]
In 1853, Herring moved to rural Kent in the southeast of England and stopped painting horse portraits. [3] He spent the last 12 years of his life at Meopham Park near Tonbridge, where he lived as a country squire. He then broadened his subject matter by painting agricultural scenes and narrative pictures, as well as his better-known sporting ...
Self-Portrait features an interior space consisting of two walls meeting at a corner, a ceiling, a tiled floor, and an ornately curtained window that reveals a lush, green forest view and a white horse galloping in the distance. Carrington depicted herself seated on a chair in the foreground, gesturing to a lactating hyena on her right.
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper: 14.3 x 16.8 cm: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The drawing is related to the etching B158 : Three Men Being Beheaded: c. 1640: Pen and brown ink, corrected with white; framing lines in pen and brown ink: 15.3 x 22.6 cm: British Museum, London
The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war. Most modern representations are of famous contemporary horses, artwork associated with horse racing, or artwork associated with the historic cowboy or Native American tradition of the ...
"Night-Shining White" (Chinese: 照夜白圖) is a monochrome ink-on-paper painting by the Chinese artist Han Gan. It is an example of Tang dynasty painting, created in the middle of the 8th century (circa 750). The work depicts a cavalry horse owned by the Emperor Xuanzong (reign 712–56) of the Tang dynasty, tethered to a post. It is ...
Black and coloured chalks, white bodycolour, black and brown wash, pen and ink, and brush and ink on pale pink prepared paper. 27.8 × 19.4 cm: The identity of the sitter is unknown. [192] An unidentified woman [193] c. 1532 – c. 1543: Black and coloured chalks, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper. 28.8 × 22.8 cm