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Animals Observed

A horse fair, a sacred cat and a galloping rider.

  • The Horse Fair
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887. Accession number 87.25. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • Walking Bull
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1952. Accession number 52.126.1. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • Attitudes of Animals in Motion
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2015. Accession number 2015.778.33. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • Cat Statuette
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1926. Accession number 26.2.38. Open Access, CC0 1.0.
  • Equestrian
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979. Accession number 1979.206.85. Open Access, CC0 1.0.

How artists in different times and places have looked at animals, from sacred Egyptian bronzes and Dogon riders to the scientific eye of Muybridge.

A conceptual collection written for the Galerio demo, not a real-world exhibition. Works are from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access collection.

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