There’s a story behind the painting. Ryder used to dine at a local hotel, where he befriended a waiter who boasted that he would bet $500 on a horse in an upcoming race.

During the War, when George Bernard Shaw wanted to give a symbolic habitation and a name to two great elements of 20th-century English upper-class society, he called one "Heartbreak ...

This quality of common purpose is reminiscent of Stubbs’s Otho, with John Larkin up (1768), part of a meditative one-room show Stubbs and Wallinger: The Horse in Art at Tate Britain (until 6 ...

Roy Strong, scourge of so much modern art, champions the wonder horse. By ROY STRONG FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 06:30 EDT, 12 February 2009 ...

“Crazy Horse,” an aerosol painting executed on a car door in Manhattan by the enigmatic, world-famous street artist will go under the hammer Feb. 22 — and could fetch $200,000.

The approximately 25,000-year-old paintings "The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle" depict spotted horses on the walls of a cave in France remarkably similar to a pattern known as "leopard" in modern ...

The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle, in a cave in southern France, is a nearly 25,000-yearold depiction of horses with spotted coats. While spots are seen in many modern horses, they were believed to ...