# Wild Horses

- By: Soga Shohaku (Japanese, 1730-1781)
- Date: Unknown
- Medium: Pair of two-panel screens; ink on paper.
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Painting: 167 × 184 cm (65 3/4 × 72 1/2 in.); Frame: 170.5 × 188 cm (67 3/16 × 74 1/16 in.)
- Culture: Japan
- Credit line: Samuel Nickerson Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/130205)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/658c212041b417c8416dbff7404a9234.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The four panels of this work show wild horses enjoying different activities: standing, running, playing, and resting. Soga Shōhaku’s expressive force as an artist comes through in his seemingly spontaneous brushwork, which is quite rough in comparison to that of his contemporaries. The freedom with which he wielded his brush matches the spirit of the untamed animals he took as his subject in this work.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0