Category: The Monday Minstrel
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Monday Minstrel: Quote
“There comes a point in every rider’s life when he wonders if it is all worth it. Then one look at the horse and he realizes………it is!” Kelly Stewart
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Monday Minstrel: Jamini Roy and a Bengali horse
Jamini Roy, 1887-1972 was on of the most important artists of the modern period in India He drew on the popular and folk traditions of Bengal for his inspiration. In this sketch the elongated head of the horse shows proximity and the large eyes are a characteristic feature of Jamini Roy’s style. This sketch is…
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Monday Minstrel: The Prancing Horse of China
All the riders are women and all have perfect, almost mask like, makeup.
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Monday Minstrel–The Urban Gypsy Horse
They live outside grazing on the grass in between the buildings.
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Monday Minstrel: Girls and Ponies
“….to be loved by a little girl.”
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Monday Minstrel–“An Entrance or a key…”
“It is important that they are NOT seen as real.”
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Monday Minstrel: The Arabian Horse
The mares were more highly prized than the stallions.
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Monday Minstrel: A Prayer
Serenity
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Monday Minstrel–Traditional and Non-traditional.
TRADITIONAL NON-TRADITIONAL Both Traditional and Non-traditional are in London’s Trafalgar Square with Nelson’s column in the background. The traditional statue is George IV and the other, the skeleton, is on the Fourth Plinth. This plinth was built for an equestrian statue in 1840 and should have had a statue of William IV but insufficient funds…
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Monday Minstrel: The Miniature Horse
In 1765 they were pets to the nobility.
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Monday Minstrel: Blank’s success at the Stud.
This is the stallion Blank!
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Monday Minstrel: Blank, a ‘no name’ 18th C. stallion
This is a portrait of the stallion Blank. He was owned by Peregrine Bertie, the 3rd Duke of Ancaster.Here is some information I found about this horse from an early book on the painter George Stubbs. “Blank, a bay horse foaled in 1740 was bred by the Earl of Godolphin and got by the Godolphin…