#ThreeForThursday:
Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916)
Grazing #Horses IV (The Red Horses),
1911
Oil on canvas, 121 x 183 cm (47 5/8 x 72 1/16 in.)
On display at Harvard Art Museums
“As this painting's numeric title suggests, Marc returned repeatedly to the horse as a subject. He became well known for his preoccupation with animals, seeing them as the embodiment of a better, purer world, the bringers of spiritual renewal to Western culture.”
"Many people assume that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago. In fact, recent research has confirmed a European origin for horses associated with humans in the American Southwest and Great Plains."
@TheConversationUS reports: "The fossil record reveals horse origins here more than 50 million years ago, as well as their extinction throughout the Americas during the last Ice Age about 10,000 years ago."
#ThreeForThursday:
Votive #Horses and Riders (three), 1966
Bhil tribe, India (Poshina, Sabarkantha district, Gujarat)
Terracotta
Philadelphia Museum of Art display
From the archives: The rules of barrel racing, the only female-dominated rodeo sport, are simple. It’s the execution that’s hard. https://www.texasobserver.org/on-a-dime/
I've gotten about 2 hours of sleep tonight - it's about 0400hrs now. Ended up fiddling around with :nintendo: #Ryujinx and I'm going to see the #horses 🐴💛 in about an hour.
Hoping to get the third book in my Pegasus Enchantment series up - the one that was written a couple of years ago before massive burnout hit.
This is your reminder to never give up and keep making small steps forward.
Also, while editing it, I sincerely hope that my readers find the support and comfort in the world and story that I do, though this one pokes at institutions and bureaucratic issues.
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‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures
#Peyo tells his trainer which room he wants to enter next by stopping or raising his leg. Peyo is 15 and seems able to detect when humans have cancers and #tumours. He stayed nearly two hours here, watching over a #dying woman.
‘I accompany him but I let him do what he wants, he’s the one who decides,’
Photographer 📸 Jaimie Murdock, aka @exploringthefrontier on Instagram - "Pair of horses and a pair of rainbows outside Roy, NM after a supercell passed by."
Two horses are feeding on hay from a metal hay rack in a muddy enclosure, with a rustic stone wall in the foreground under a clear blue sky. In the background, a green pasture is visible, hinting at a peaceful rural setting.