Painting - Horse on Barn Door

$800.00

In stock

Beautiful, very detailed stallion hand painted on a rustic barn door. This local artist specializes in animal paintings and has loaned his unique artistic skills to our farm style design...

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Description

Beautiful, very detailed stallion hand painted on a rustic barn door. This local artist specializes in animal paintings and has loaned his unique artistic skills to our farm style design products. Measures approximately 28.25" wide, by 18" tall.

This item can not be shipped and is available for LOCAL PICK UP ONLY please.

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Categories:
Farm House Collections,Local Pick Up Only,Vintage Inspired

About the Painting - Horse on Barn Door

Painting on salvaged barn wood is a folk tradition rather than a studio one, and the panel is half the picture. The boards here were weathered long before anyone put a brush to them: the grain stands proud, the nail holes are original, and the surface takes paint unevenly because a hundred summers opened the soft rings and left the hard ones raised. That texture is the reason the finished piece has depth that a stretched canvas simply cannot give.

The subject is a standing stallion, painted at close to life-scale for the panel, with the musculature worked up in layers rather than outlined. Seen straight on the animal reads as detailed; seen from the side, the brushwork breaks apart into the boards and you notice the door again. That switch between image and object is what makes work of this kind hold a wall over years rather than months.

It is heavy and it wants a solid fixing — two lag screws into studs, not plasterboard anchors. Hang it somewhere it will not be brushed past, keep it out of direct afternoon light to protect the pigment, and dust it with a dry brush rather than a cloth so you do not catch the raised grain. Nothing else is required; the panel has already survived worse than a living room.

Painted panels are the hardest thing we sell to photograph, because the surface changes completely with the angle of the light. If you are seriously considering one, ask us for a short video rather than more stills — it takes thirty seconds and it tells you more than a dozen photographs. Panels of this weight are collected or sent by pallet freight, quoted separately.