Horse Scratching
Amory Coffin Simons American
Throughout his career, Simons specialized in animal statuettes. The horse was Simons’s favorite, and he portrayed it often, relying on intimate scale to focus on behavioral characteristics. "Horse Scratching," modeled and cast in Paris, is an amusing study of the animal’s attempt to scratch its head with its rear hoof. Traces of a greenish blue patina suggest that Simons was experimenting with the color of this cast, a reflection of an interest he shared with fellow American expatriate sculptor Paul Wayland Bartlett.
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