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Lunar New Year: Year of the Horse

Collection

As we prepared to observe the Chinese or Lunar New Year, year of the horse, we realized just how many horses we have in the collection. Lots! And so, we bring you some horses to start your year off right.

Collection item 1254
Peppino Mangravite, Ecstatic Colt, 1928, Oil on canvas 24 1/4 x 30 in.; Acquired 1929. The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Collection item 0486
Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène Delacroix, Horses Coming Out of the Sea, 1860, Oil on canvas 20 1/4 x 24 1/4 in.; Acquired 1945. The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Collection item 0521
Willhelm Hunt Diederich, Spanish Rider, not dated, Bronze 17 1/4 x 14 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.; Acquired 1924. The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Collection item 0609
Raoul Dufy, Chateau and Horses, 1930, Oil on canvas 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in.;  Acquired 1939. The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Collection item 2001.004.0001
Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, Running Horse, 1999, Etching and acquatint on paper 18 1/4 x 18 in.; The Phillips Collection, Gift of the Francine Seders Gallery, 2001