Kimbell Art Museum shows off its newest acquisition

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A British masterpiece has found a new home in Texas. The Fort Worth museum acquired the George Stubbs masterpiece in memory of Ben J. Fortson.

, painted between about 1761 and 1762. The painting is now on view in the Kimbell’s Louis I. Kahn Building.

, purchased by the Kimbell in 2023, significantly elevates the Kimbell’s holdings of eighteenth-century British paintings, a genre Velma and Kay Kimbell favored when initially building their collection. The painting is slightly more than six feet long by three feet tall and features a mature bay mare at the center of a group of two other mares and three foals, who nuzzle close to their mothers.

 

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