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File: Joan Miró, 1920, Horse, Pipe and Red Flower, oil on canvas, 82.6 x 74.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
The online collection contains roughly 34,000 images by 4,000 artists, but only named artists with oil paintings in the database are listed alphabetically here. The painter's name is followed by a title of one of their paintings and its location, which is hosted on the WGA website.
But names can come from anything -- current events, a favorite pastime, a location or pop culture. In 2010, a Bleacher Report article listed its top 20 picks for the funniest racehorse names of ...
Edgar Degas, Before the Race, 1882–1884, oil on panel, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion features an animated sequence of a race horse galloping, using photos published in 1887. Thoroughbred racing was an inspiration for Romantic and Impressionist artists of the 19th century.
The horse's bodies are held in a strong blue, the landscape and sky have red and purple tones that do not correspond to reality. The paintings Blue Horse I and Blue Horse II were also created in 1911. In all of the horse pictures of this time, Marc turns blue from an “appearance colour” to an “essential colour”.
Portrait of Henry Thomas Alken as Ben Talley O (published in Animal painters of England from the year 1650 by Walter Gilbey).. Henry Thomas Alken (12 October 1785 – 7 April 1851) was an English painter and engraver chiefly known as a caricaturist and illustrator of sporting subjects and coaching scenes. [1]
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