Author: David Hunt Date: To: mtn man list Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Mules
In his post Wynn Ormand said: <-----(stuff deleted)----- It has always interested me that
Miller painted the mules larger than the horses. Perhaps artistic license since a horse
was a romantic figure and the art of the day made such things as horses and men be drawn
with tiny feet and etc. Still I wonder. -----(stuff deleted)----->
Wynn,
I once read somewhere that the horses of the day were actually much smaller in size than
the horses of today, which would account for what appears to be small horses in the Miller
paintings.
