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Description: | This painting shows a group of horses being led through a ford by a couple of stable hands. Horses were Munnings' best-known subject, and form the main focus of this painting. Munnings has used the effect of the refelction of light off the water to create a vibrant and dynamic painting. This is one of several pictures by Munnings entitled 'the Ford', and shows the influence of the Newlyn School of Art, where Munnings briefly studied. His works were often bought by patrons in the horse-racing business, who were keen to commission portraits of their own horses, particularly if they were big winners at the races.
Alfred Munnings painted his travels through England with a team of ponies and a gypsy boy named Shrimp. He worked in the open air, catching the movements of light, spray, earth and air. At the Newlyn Art School, the female art students all suddenly became "horsy women". "I could not take my eyes off him, he was the stable, the artist, the poet, the very land itself ... I adored everything about him." Laura Knight
Oil painting showing a group of horses being led through a ford by two male stable hands. One white horse dominates the centre- the rest of the horses are shades of brown. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fine arts Landscape Oil painting Oil Paintings Horses Art collections | Temporal: | 1900 - 1959
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | MUNNINGS; Alfred (1878 - 1959); Sir | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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