As we prepared to observe the Chinese or Lunar New Year, year of the horse, we realized just how many horses we have in the collection. Lots! And so, we bring you some horses to start your year off right.
Peppino Mangravite, Ecstatic Colt, 1928, Oil on canvas 24 1/4 x 30 in.; Acquired 1929. The Phillips Collection, Washington DCFerdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Horses Coming Out of the Sea, 1860, Oil on canvas 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.; Acquired 1945. The Phillips Collection, Washington DCWillhelm Hunt Diederich, Spanish Rider, not dated, Bronze 17 1/4 x 14 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.; Acquired 1924. The Phillips Collection, Washington DCRaoul Dufy, Chateau and Horses, 1930, Oil on canvas 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in.; Acquired 1939. The Phillips Collection, Washington DCGwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Running Horse, 1999, Etching and acquatint on paper 18 1/4 x 18 in.; The Phillips Collection, Gift of the Francine Seders Gallery, 2001