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HOOFING IT.
Don't know your gaskin from your fetlock? Never mind, go to the Frick anyway for a show that in just seventeen paintings manages to convey the fabulous weirdness of the eighteenth-century English artist George Stubbs.
Stubbs has been known since his own day as a horse painter, the greatest ever. He wore the honor like a hair shirt, aware that it was what had brought him success with the horsy British aristocracy, and yet wanting desperately to be taken seriously as a history painter. But you look at his efforts in that genre and find yourself saying, inevitably, "Aren't the horses good?" Excluded from the founding fellowship of the Royal Academy, Stubbs smarted ...
- To the top: David Harding-Price and John Gibbon explain a framework designed to...
- Magazine article from: Nursing Standard Harding-Price, David Gibbon, John May 28, 2003 700+ words
...move to excel one David Harding-Price is chair, RCN forum and nurse lead, substance misuse training programme, London; John Gibbon is a member of the mental health practice forum steering committee and editor of the Mental Health Bulletin Any mental health...
- Stubbs, one of Eagles' more intelligent players, helps shore up...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Panaccio, Tim December 12, 1995 700+ words
...Eagles' on Nov. 7. PHILADELPHIA _ Daniel Stubbs heard the remark and quietly stewed...store clerk, and that is not me,'' Stubbs said. ``I have an education. I have...be more successful off the field,'' Stubbs said. ``You don't see many guys playing...
- STUBBS: THE $8,000 PUSSYCAT.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) May 24, 2001 700+ words
...Writer WOODLAND HILLS - At 6 months old, Stubbs the cat already has used up at least a...battled gangrene and lost part of two legs. Stubbs suffered burn wounds - which caused him...medical bill of up to $8,000 to get Stubbs healthy again. ``This cat is amazing...
- Stubbs learning the rules of pass and move
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Glenn Moore October 28, 1995 700+ words
This summer Alan Stubbs appeared to be a footballer whose time...anachronistic embarrassment. But for Stubbs time is standing still. His well-publicised...Division to the Premiership and developed Stubbs into a player of note. During the summer...
- George Stubbs; Passion, scientific rigor mark horse portraiture.(ARTS &...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 12, 2005 700+ words
...responsive to their nobility than George Stubbs. The 18th-century British artist devoted...as a lowly painter of sporting scenes, Stubbs was largely rediscovered in the early...of his collection and other works in "Stubbs and the Horse," an exhibition opening...
- DONALD STUBBS, PARTNER IN PROMINENT DENVER LAW FIRM.(LOCAL)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Fong, Tillie February 16, 1996 700+ words
...MOUNTAIN NEWS STAFF WRITER Donald S. Stubbs was a leading force in developing one...oldest law firms: Davis, Graham & Stubbs. "He and Dick Davis and Don Graham together...built this firm during hard times." Mr. Stubbs died Tuesday at his Denver home. He was...
- FULLY GROWN STUBBS SELF-MADE
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ian Thomsen, Globe Staff December 31, 1987 700+ words
...His neck is as thick as his head. Dan Stubbs opens his mouth and his low, deep voice...To think, that as a sickly child, Stubbs almost died. "I really can't remember...Asthma and allergies almost killed him. Stubbs was allergic to almost everything as a...
- Self-Portrait by George Stubbs: The Yale Center for British Art continues to...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Albinson, Cassandra April 1, 2007 700+ words
...Despite his prodigious output, George Stubbs is essentially mute to historians. Unlike Thomas Gainsborough or Joshua Reynolds, Stubbs's own voice is known to us only from...silence should not blind us to the fact that Stubbs crafted his persona through a set of portraits...
