Horsepower

This was painted for a museum invitational entitled "Art on the Move," artists' interpretations of our relationship with the automobile. I chose to stay within my intimate still life genre and came up with this transitional theme. I bought the Mustang model from a street vendor and the very next day found the license plate at a flea market. The horse is "Whistlejacket," by George Stubbs, in the National Gallery, London.