1887
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Bucking Horse is a 1887 ink by James McNeill Whistler, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a rough, open field with scattered people and animals. A horse in the bottom right is rearing up, kicking its back legs. In the distance, a few small buildings and trees line the horizon, and more people stand or sit around. The lines are loose and quick, like a hurried drawing. Notice how the artist used light shading to show depth instead of tight details. The brown tones feel warm but simple, almost like a quick note of what they saw. Try looking up *etching* to see how artists use acid to carve into metal plates.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom.
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