#ThreeForThursday:
Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916)
Grazing #Horses IV (The Red Horses),
1911
Oil on canvas, 121 x 183 cm (47 5/8 x 72 1/16 in.)
On display at Harvard Art Museums
“As this painting's numeric title suggests, Marc returned repeatedly to the horse as a subject. He became well known for his preoccupation with animals, seeing them as the embodiment of a better, purer world, the bringers of spiritual renewal to Western culture.”