COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Horse
Image View:
Detail, showing where the head meets the body
Creator:
Elisabeth Frink (British sculptor, born 1930)
Location:
repository: Getty Center (Los Angeles, California, United States) 2005.106.1
Location Note:
Brentwood; 1200 Getty Center Drive. Gift of Fran and Ray Stark.
GPS:
+34.0775-118.475
Date:
1980 (creation)
Cultural Context:
British
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
sculpture
Material:
bronze
Technique:
casting (process)
Measurements:
1068 x 89 x 1248 in (length)
Relation Work:
part of Getty Center: The Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Garden
Subjects:
animals; contemporary (1960 to present); horses; horse; sculpture
Description:
This sculpture was made from a plaster cast created in 1980. The form was originally commissioned for a Sussex racecourse. Frink claimed that her sculptures of horses were about "the ancient spirit of the horse and its evolution in relation to man." Source: J. Paul Getty Museum Collection [website]; http://www.getty.ed…
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Four
Identifier:
6A1-FEL-H-A4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Horse
