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The Bleu Horses is a set of 39 horse sculptures made primarily of steel and permanently installed on a hillside off Highway 287 just north of Three Forks, Montana. [1] The name of the installation is taken from a color of horse known as a blue roan, though the live animal color is closer to gray. [2]
Jim Dolan (born 1948) is an American sculptor specializing in outdoor larger-than-life bronze and steel sculptures, especially of Montana-related subjects and wildlife. He has created a number of large scale multiple element sculptures, and over 170 works of public art.
By 1884, horse racing tracks had been built in Bozeman and Butte, and a "Montana Circuit" for horse racing had evolved. Races at Montana Circuit tracks became more exclusive, and applicant horses had to be vetted by a nomination committee before being allowed to race. [7] The Montana Circuit eventually expanded to 15 regulation tracks. [15]
Her earliest works from the mid-1970s were made from sticks and natural detritus gathered on her property in Bozeman, Montana. "The materials and images were meant to suggest that the horses were both figures and ground, merging external world with the subject." [6] She began crafting horses out of scrap metal and cast bronze in the
General John A. Logan, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Logan) and Alexander Phimister Proctor (horse), Grant Park (Chicago), 1897. Thaddeus Kosciuszko, by Kasmir Chodzinski, Burnham Park (Chicago), 1904. George Washington Memorial, by Daniel Chester French (Washington) and Edward Clark Potter (horse), Washington Park, 1900, this cast 1903. A replica ...
“It was an amazing day, the community really pulled together for this one. Neighbors, first responders, police, ranch employees.”
Accompanied by a parade, a horse racing meet, a rodeo and a number of social activities, it attracts rodeo stock contractors from the United States and Canada who are looking for bucking horse, and bucking bull prospects. The first official Miles City Bucking Horse Sale began in 1951, though an unofficial sale was held in 1950. [1]
Bozeman (/ ˈ b oʊ z m ə n / BOHZ-mən) is a city in and the county seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States.Located in southwest Montana, the 2020 census put Bozeman's population at 53,293 making it the fourth-largest city in Montana. [7]