Horses in the Heart: Passions, Distortions, and Ultimate Hope

Stories that help us leap over oncoming trains

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Ruth Gaskovski

Mar 14, 2024

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Alex Colville, Horse and Train, 1954. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Gift of Dominion Foundries and Steel Limited (Dofasco), 1957. ©A.C. Fine Art Inc.

Alex Colville’s Horse and Train was painted in 1954. It naturally pulls for interpretation. Decades later, when copies of the image were viewed by artists living in Communist China, they thought: We are the hor…

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