"The Caparisoned Horse" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony

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"The Caparisoned Horse" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony

"The Caparisoned Horse" is an oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony in a series titled “Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK”. The painting depicts Black Jack, the riderless horse, in the funeral procession for President Kennedy on November 24, 1963 in Washington, D.C. Most of the painting is completed in black and white with touches of off-white, brown, and blue paint as accents. The artist signed the painting in the lower right corner.

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Object title:

"The Caparisoned Horse" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony

Date:

circa 2010

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

Unframed: 23 3/4 × 30 × 1 1/2 in. (60.3 × 76.2 × 3.8 cm)

Credit line:

The "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK" Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.063.0006

Curatorial Note:

Having completed paintings depicting Jacqueline, Caroline and John F. Kennedy, Jr. during the funeral for President Kennedy, for the fourth painting in her "Fading Memories" series, artist Tansill Stough-Anthony drew inspiration in part from her childhood memories of watching the funeral procession on television. "I do remember the procession," recalled Stough-Anthony in her 2015 oral history. "I do remember the horses. I love horses." However, she did not recognize the significance of the riderless horse until she had already started work on this painting. She said, "I just really wanted to do a horse. I'm a horse lover. And I realized that, when I was doing this, that the boot was actually backwards. And I didn't know why and found out that it was called the caparisoned horse because he is actually elusively carrying the dead person, and that is significant of the backward boot." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

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"The Caparisoned Horse" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony

"The Caparisoned Horse" is an oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony in a series titled “Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK”. The painting depicts Black Jack, the riderless horse, in the funeral procession for President Kennedy on November 24, 1963 in Washington, D.C. Most of the painting is completed in black and white with touches of off-white, brown, and blue paint as accents. The artist signed the painting in the lower right corner.

Object Details
Object title:

"The Caparisoned Horse" oil painting by Tansill Stough-Anthony

Date:

circa 2010

Terms:

Artwork

Memorials

Artist

Black Jack

Procession

Funeral

Stough-Anthony, Tansill

Kennedy, John F.

Hot Springs

Washington, D.C.

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

Unframed: 23 3/4 × 30 × 1 1/2 in. (60.3 × 76.2 × 3.8 cm)

Credit line:

The "Fading Memories: In Honor of JFK" Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.063.0006

Curatorial Note:

Having completed paintings depicting Jacqueline, Caroline and John F. Kennedy, Jr. during the funeral for President Kennedy, for the fourth painting in her "Fading Memories" series, artist Tansill Stough-Anthony drew inspiration in part from her childhood memories of watching the funeral procession on television. "I do remember the procession," recalled Stough-Anthony in her 2015 oral history. "I do remember the horses. I love horses." However, she did not recognize the significance of the riderless horse until she had already started work on this painting. She said, "I just really wanted to do a horse. I'm a horse lover. And I realized that, when I was doing this, that the boot was actually backwards. And I didn't know why and found out that it was called the caparisoned horse because he is actually elusively carrying the dead person, and that is significant of the backward boot." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator