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This Spectacular Dash Is an Inspiring Picture . . . Thundering down the Field on a Dead Run in Lines as Straight as Arrows
This Spectacular Dash Is an Inspiring Picture . . . Thundering down the Field on a Dead Run in Lines as Straight as Arrows
This Spectacular Dash Is an Inspiring Picture . . . Thundering down the Field on a Dead Run in Lines as Straight as Arrows

This Spectacular Dash Is an Inspiring Picture . . . Thundering down the Field on a Dead Run in Lines as Straight as Arrows

Artist (American, 1878 - 1936)
Datec.1914
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/8 x 22 1/8 inches (76.5 x 56.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.21.3
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextDunton depicted the Ninth Cavalry, a regiment of African American soldiers led by white officers in this painting. He saw them at Cheyenne Frontier Days, a Wild West fair and show. As part of the performance, the Ninth Cavalry enacted a battle. Dunton wrote about the charge of the troopers, “This spectacular dash is an inspiring picture—none finer at the whole fair than these black horsemen with sabres drawn and mounted on big handsome bays, thundering down the field on a dead run in lines as straight as arrows.”
ProvenanceH.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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