Black Beauty

Artist George Ford Morris

Period1946

MediumOil on pressed millboard

Dimensions12.75 × 19 in. (32.4 × 48.3 cm)

SignedSigned lower right, "George Ford Morris / '46."

ClassificationsLandscapes & Still Life

Credit LineGift of Mrs. William C. Riker, 1957

Object number1984.524

DescriptionFour riders on horseback in front of woods, a pond, and fields. From left to right, the figures are a young girl in red riding habit on a white pony, a woman in green habit on Black Beauty, an older man in a top hat on a chestnut horse, and a young woman in a deep blue habit on a dark brown horse.
NotesThe painting entitled Black Beauty was used as the cover illustration for the 1950 J. B. Lippincott Classics edition of the ever-popular book by Anna Sewell.

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