I painted this for the American Academy of Equine Art 2023 April Fools Show where we paint "After the Masters". "Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius’ A Cowboy’s Mount, painted in 1920, is a prime example of the artist’s anatomically accurate depictions of wildlife in the American West. Rungius’ highly romanticized works show robust wildlife undisturbed in nature, now a part of the American visual vocabulary. In A Cowboy's Mount we see Rungius’s excellent draftsmanship and his superb use of color, effortlessly deployed to depict a casual view of a horse set against a background of cool greens." I chose this painting because his use of color and his brushwork are outstanding.
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