Featured Horse Silkscreen

By printing company Canal Press. Anybody heard of them?

 

That's nice !

 

I tried looking at the online "collection of the Museum of Modern Art" (since I can see the tops of those words at the cut bottom of the cardboard(?) label in your last picture.) The New York one, without success. Seemed kind of odd that MoMA would have a 19th Century Cast Iron Horse Weather Vane in their collection, so I have to wonder if your image was a museum store offering - maybe a reproduction poster of something they have (but have not digitized) that's been cut down?

After all that, I apologize if you already tried that yourself.

 

At 1st I thought the horse was Greek or Roman....but the bobtail .......hummm !

I got nuthin after half an hour !

 

Very nice image. I agree, Bakers, that the MMA notation seems odd for this.

 

I found 1 bobtail cast iron horse weathervane in a Christie's auction (hoping that some artist might be documented as creating a replica.) But it was running, not walking and had very little "mane."

I thought "ancient" as well.

 

And I tried the collection at SFMOMA as well. Nada.

 

The paper piece with the notation was on the backing paper that I removed. Most likely put by the previous owner.
There is almost no info on the Canal Press. There is/was a printing company by that name from Rosendale, NY registered in 1976.
I almost thought that this is hand painted but I believe it is some type of silkscreen.

 

It's also odd that the Canal Press plus copyright symbol are on the front of the piece with no reference to an artist.

 

Found that Allen Saalburg's studio was called Canal Press but don't know if the print is by him
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/i...-press-his-studio-frenchtown-new-jersey-16773

 

That looks like a very good lead.

 

Kard, you may have the right artist. Here's an Allen Saalburg silk screen print that showed up in a Google search. It was from an eBay listing, but the listing no longer displays on eBay...

 

That bobtail horse weathervane might be something from the collection of the Mercer Museum.

Allen Saalburg Fraktur Trompe L'oeil Silkscreen Print Upper Dublin PA - $500
"Saalburg worked at the Mercer Museum in Bucks County and painted objects from the collection, and from those objects he created his prints."
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/atq/5031479473.html

Allen Saalburg Mercer Museum Of Bucks County Historical Society
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Allen+Saalburg+Mercer+Museum+Bucks+County

Until the extreme close-up picture of the tail, that horse looks like it's actually a piece of cast iron. I think it's amazing.

 

There is no doubt anymore that Sallburg was the artist.
Here is another piece of his after a rooster in the Museum Of Modern Art
http://shop.housingworks.org/lot.cfm?lotID=35880

Now I just have to find the actual piece. I think the reason for the horse and the rooster to be in a collection at MOMA is that they are considered "Early Modern Art".

 

Here is the Early American Folk Art collection at MOMA with few horses but no images
http://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/...erChecklists/MoMAExh_0022_MasterChecklist.pdf

 

I'd be looking to see whether yours depicts item 149. Perhaps a kindly curator could help?

 

Until the extreme close-up picture of the tail, that horse looks like it's actually a piece of cast iron. I think it's amazing.

You're not alone in that.....!

 

I thought it looked like actual metal, too.

 

Mr. Saalburg is the man, the execution is amazing. Too bad his art did not make it to the top. Yet.
It has to be #149. It is the only "formal horse" in the catalog.

 

If you search hackney horse weathervane, more bobtails show up, but not yours, unfortunately.