This is an oil on heavy German etching paper, from March 1992. After the battle the painted ponies and the women cry. The landscape is gray and the sun black. Some warriors in the background still stand, so it isn't all sadness. The painting went to Canada as far as I know, a lady falling in love with the horses. When Tony painted them, they were movement, the icon of a horse and thus more suggestive than a realist rendering would have been.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Black sun and painted ponies
This is an oil on heavy German etching paper, from March 1992. After the battle the painted ponies and the women cry. The landscape is gray and the sun black. Some warriors in the background still stand, so it isn't all sadness. The painting went to Canada as far as I know, a lady falling in love with the horses. When Tony painted them, they were movement, the icon of a horse and thus more suggestive than a realist rendering would have been.
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