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Snow Horses (Original Post) ashling Feb 2013 OP
gorgeous! Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2013 #1
so beautiful In_The_Wind Feb 2013 #2
This looks like a 'snow production' of a famous painting... Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #3
is that the painting where.... IcyPeas Feb 2013 #4
I think that's it! Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #5
Neptune's Horses by Walter Crane csziggy Feb 2013 #6
Thank you so much, csziggy Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #7
Yes, that was the first thing I thought of csziggy Feb 2013 #9
I did just that. Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #16
It is evocative sarge43 Feb 2013 #11
That's the duller version - some versions have brighter colors csziggy Feb 2013 #12
So pissed off I didn't get any artistic ability when they passed the genes out. Baitball Blogger Feb 2013 #8
Another painting this evokes is the Pharoh's Horses csziggy Feb 2013 #10
How beautiful! zanana1 Feb 2013 #13
It's in China frogmarch Feb 2013 #14
Cool! progressoid Feb 2013 #15

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
3. This looks like a 'snow production' of a famous painting...
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 04:29 PM
Feb 2013

wish I could remember which one. Thanks for posting, it is amazing.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
6. Neptune's Horses by Walter Crane
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 01:42 AM
Feb 2013

One of my favorite paintings of all time.

I had a print of it that got faded after hanging for 30 years. Then I bought a print on canvas that looks like a painting. That's hanging in the dining room.

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
7. Thank you so much, csziggy
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:08 AM
Feb 2013

Did that painting come to mind when you first saw the snow sculpture? It nagged at me all day yesterday.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
9. Yes, that was the first thing I thought of
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 12:39 PM
Feb 2013

Especially since there are 3D wall sculptures available with the same idea, usually in white.

If you google the painting title, you can find all kinds of images of the original, the studies done for the painting, and imitations.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
12. That's the duller version - some versions have brighter colors
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 01:05 PM
Feb 2013

The original poster print I had was very much like your image. The print on canvas is much brighter, which I like.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
10. Another painting this evokes is the Pharoh's Horses
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 12:52 PM
Feb 2013

By John Fredrick Herring Sr. It was a very popular lithograph in the late 1900s. I have three versions of it - a pen and ink study by the brother of a friend of my great aunt's, a black & white lithograph, and a color lithograph. The image also appeared on belt buckles for the 7th Calvary and many other places.

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