This painting shows a grassy green plain covered with horses. The horses are a variety of sizes and colors, including black, brown, white, tan, and white with black spots. They roll on the ground, run across the grass, sit, or rear back on their hind legs. Below the center of the painting, there is a rider on a black horse who faces us. The rider has pale skin and a thick black mustache, and wears a black shirt, yellow pants, tall black boots, and a gray cowboy hat. Bushes with yellow flowers dot the grass, and there are pointed white mountains in the distance. The sky is light green-blue…
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Spring on the Range

American 19th Century

fourth quarter 19th century

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 53.7 x 74.5 cm (21 1/8 x 29 5/16 in.) ; framed: 65.4 x 85.7 x 6.3 cm (25 3/4 x 33 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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