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BibliographyLouis C. Jones and Agnes Halsey, New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic (exh. cat., Cooperstown, NY, NYSHA, 1960), p. 34.
Artist
Fanny Bowen Streeter
Galloping Horses
Datec. 1840
MediumPen and ink on paper
DimensionsSight: 13 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (34.3 × 49.5 cm)
Object numberN0291.1961
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextCalligraphic drawing, in which the scrolls and flourishes of classic penmanship training were used to create imaginative pictures, lent itself well to the depiction of fanciful horses. In this picture calligraphic instructor Fanny Bowen Streeter expresses the uninhibited motion of horses galloping freely. Streeter took particular pains to articulate the decorative saddle blankets and halters of the horses, as well as the flourishes across the bottom of the picture which accentuate the motion of the animals. Inscriptions found on slips of paper framed with this piece indicate that Streeter taught penmanship along with an R.G. Bowen, possibly her father, at Gunnison's Commercial College.BibliographyLouis C. Jones and Agnes Halsey, New-Found Folk Art of the Young Republic (exh. cat., Cooperstown, NY, NYSHA, 1960), p. 34.
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