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Breaking Down the Wild Horse
Breaking Down the Wild Horse
Breaking Down the Wild Horse

Breaking Down the Wild Horse

Artist (1796 - 1872)
Datecirca 1840
Mediumgraphite and white wash on paper
Dimensionsimage: 12 1/4 × 18 in. (31.1 × 45.7 cm)
sheet: 15 × 21 1/2 in. (38.1 × 54.6 cm)
frame: 20 1/2 × 27 in. (52.1 × 68.6 cm)
ClassificationsART, 2-DIMENSIONAL
Credit LineClara S. Peck Fund
Object number86.10 F
DescriptionHorizontal, rectangular iamge, showing male Native Amerian, facing wild horse with front feet tied together; horse pulling back; two other Native Americans, mounted on horses, chasing horses, in left background ;lone saddled horse in right background; \; landscape of western Oklahoma.
Collections
  • 19th Century American Art
  • Art of the American West
Not on view
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