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Scratch Mare

Date

1927

Creator

Jack B. Yeats

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

Yeats began to focus on oil painting around 1910, and from the mid-1920s onward his compositions became more gestural in style and less narrative in subject. The Scratch Mare demonstrates this new approach, capturing the excitement and speed of horse racing—a motif in his earlier graphic works—in fluid, blurred impasto. from Snay, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Collection of Irish Art (Notre Dame, 2019)

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Yeats began to focus on oil painting around 1910, and from the mid-1920s onward his compositions became more gestural in style and less narrative in subject. The Scratch Mare demonstrates this new approach, capturing the excitement and speed of horse racing—a motif in his earlier graphic works—in fluid, blurred impasto. from Snay, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Collection of Irish Art (Notre Dame, 2019)
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  • Yeats began to focus on oil painting around 1910, and from the mid-1920s onward his compositions became more gestural in style and less narrative in subject. The Scratch Mare demonstrates this new approach, capturing the excitement and speed of horse racing—a motif in his earlier graphic works—in fluid, blurred impasto. from Snay, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Collection of Irish Art (Notre Dame, 2019)
  • Yeats began to focus on oil painting around 1910, and from the mid-1920s onward his compositions became more gestural in style and less narrative in subject. The Scratch Mare demonstrates this new approach, capturing the excitement and speed of horse racing—a motif in his earlier graphic works—in fluid, blurred impasto. from Snay, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Collection of Irish Art (Notre Dame, 2019)
  • Yeats began to focus on oil painting around 1910, and from the mid-1920s onward his compositions became more gestural in style and less narrative in subject. The Scratch Mare demonstrates this new approach, capturing the excitement and speed of horse racing—a motif in his earlier graphic works—in fluid, blurred impasto. from Snay, The Donald and Marilyn Keough Collection of Irish Art (Notre Dame, 2019)
Jack B. Yeats (Irish, 1871 - 1957)
1927
Paintings
Oil on panel
2019.001.004
Equus caballus
races
© Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All rights reserved, DACS / ARS 2019
Raclin Murphy Museum: B01
10 x 15 in. (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
Gift of the Donald and Marilyn Keough Foundation

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