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Black Horses (Grandma Moses)

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The painting shows the artist's impression of three horses, with the brown one on the left being ridden by two children coming up the hillside, and two black ones on the right that are cantering towards each other. The hillside overlooks
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illustrated with an expanded detail of the mountain range for the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné, page 32, plate 26
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in December 1942. He considered it an important improvement upon the two circa 1940 versions he had shown at his gallery in
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A recurring subject by the artist, this version made an impression on the gallerist Otto Kallir when he first saw it at
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in Otto Kallir's 1946 catalogue of 40 paintings with comments by Grandma Moses herself, called
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catalogue. Another 1942 version painted in the summer before
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Grandma Moses
Oil paint
Otto Kallir
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Grandma Moses
Otto Kallir
Cambridge Valley
Hoosic River
Ala Story
American-British Art Center
Galerie St. Etienne
Grandma Moses American Primitive
Smithsonian American Art Museum


Black Horses
2021.71.1
Image of the 1940 version
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Paintings by Grandma Moses
1942 paintings

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