Horses. Running. Phyrne L. No. 40

1879

Eadweard Muybridge

Associated Names
Eadweard Muybridge

Artist, American, born England, 1830 - 1904

The artwork is a horizontally oriented series of twenty-four black and white images arranged in a grid format, depicting a horse and rider in motion. Each frame captures a sequential moment of the horse running across the grid. The images are silhouettes set against a light background, each enclosed within a rounded rectangular frame. The horse is shown in various stages of a gallop, with its legs in different positions, while the rider maintains a consistent posture. Numbers appear below each frame.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 16 x 22.4 cm (6 5/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.7 x 32.4 cm (10 1/8 x 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.131.7

  • Volume Title

    The Attitudes of Animals in Motion

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • Eadweard Muybridge, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2010 - 2011, no. fig. 81.

2016

  • Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2010

  • Eadweard Muybridge. Exh. cat., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. London, 2010: no. fig. 81.

Inscriptions

printed in ink, bottom right, under image on support: copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge.

Wikidata ID

Q64147026

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