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To celebrate the nearing Year of the Fire Horse, we look at paintings, books and plays that show how the use of horses in art has evolved.

MIDDLEBORO —Jesse the painting horse's visit to Cravings Cafe in Kingston at the beginning of February was so well received that he is planning one more visit before his exhibition closes and his ...

Though depicted in a still oil painting, the powerful animal gave the impression of dynamic movement. The horse’s curving neck, soulful eyes and graceful form had been captured in minute strokes of ...

A taste for animal paintings, as part of a more pervasive Anglophilia, has always run deep within certain Texas circles. It is, therefore, no surprise that the Kimbell Art Museum should have just ...

Called "The Painting Horse of the West," Tuck has an abstract, eye-catching style that has helped him raise $3,500 For more than two years, people have ponied up between $50 and $150 to buy affordable ...

Annalies Blackford had a bad experience with a horse while trail riding. And she never really got over it. “I would have these meltdowns, freakouts,” she said. But her mother Marlies Blackford didn’t ...

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 House” and the ...

For artist Merritt Finnell, painting horses was never his thing. Horses were his twin brother Michael’s territory, and like many twins Merritt was different from Michael. “My brother was the twin that ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. This is not something you can force a horse to do. You can ride a horse, make him turn left and right, forward and ...