Paper

circa 1975

24 x 20

15-1/4 in

11-1/4 in

Selections From The Permanent Collection (2010)

Cultural/Historical Context

"Formerly a faculty member at Purdue, Peter Smith is now Professor Emeritus in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. In addition to writing numerous books and articles on classroom teaching, Peter has always enjoyed the creativity of actually making art in the studio. About the works in the collection he writes, ""The images from ""Revelations"" are, of course, ""The Four Horseman of the Apolypse,"" but I had been thinking of Holbein's woodcuts of the ""The Dance of Death."" The works related to ""Revelations"" have something of the nightmare (note the term) quality of the skeletal horses Butterfield has evoked in the the horses she has made out of scraps--metal, twigs, etc. I was familiar with her work even in prehistoric 1990s! ""Glory"" is a nightmare of a different whinney. It was meant to be more ironic, the military figure rides a patently false horse, the whole notion of heroics reduced to two men in a costume and a flag waving man in a doorman's outfit."""