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'Offspring of the Winds - The Horse in Art and Imagination' to Open at Reading Public Museum
READING, Pa., May 8 PRNewswire-USNewswire — Offspring of the Winds - The Horse in Art and Imagination exhibit opens at the Reading Public Museum on July 12 and continues through September 7, 2008. This exhibition will feature the horse as it has appeared in diverse cultures over the past 3,000 years. With works drawn primarily from the Museum's permanent collections, visitors will experience the beauty, strength and vitality that the horse has inspired in the work of artists and craftsmen throughout history.
Highlights of the exhibition include spectacular 7th to 4th century B.C. Greek vases depicting the horse in battle, mythology and every day life of the ancients, Asian masterpieces including Ming and Yuan dynasty scroll paintings and rare ivory and jade sculptures.
A special feature of the exhibition is the Museum's unique collection of Renaissance armor for the horse — one of the most outstanding in the United States. Sculpture in the exhibition ranges from the work of renowned 19th century French animal sculptor, Antoine-Louis Barye to the contemporary work of Deborah Butterfield, and sculptors of the American west.
The exhibition will also include whimsical recreational uses of the horse including folk art, carousel horses and cast iron horse-drawn fire engine toys. Paintings in the exhibition will include the famous Napoleon Crossing the Alps from the studio of Jacques-Louis David and an extremely rare Sioux, hand-painted buffalo robe. A special "Berks Collects" section of the exhibition will feature a delightful array of decorative arts from weathervanes to hobby horses loaned from local private collections.
This exhibition is presented by Penn National Gaming, Inc. and Susquehanna Bank.
The Museum is located at 500 Museum Road, Reading, PA 19611. The Reading Public Museum is supported in part by grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Web: www.readingpublicmuseum.org.
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