Archive for the ‘Horses’ Category

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A Shining Knight, Mounted on His Noble Steed, Guards the Entryway of the Worcester Art Museum’s Exhibit of the Arms and Armor That It Acquired From the Higgins Armory Museum, When That Famous Worcester Institution Permanently Closed Its Doors at the End of 2013 After Eight Decades (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on February 27, 2015)

Stevens Monument West Ridge
A Most Unusual Monument to a Local Horseman, Consisting of a Pair of Polychromed Plaster Statues of Workhorses Mounted on a Granite Base, Spotted at West Ridge Cemetery in Charlton, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on October 1, 2015)

Hip Scare Crow
A Hip Scarecrow Wearing Dark Shades Caught Riding Sidesaddle on A White Carousel Pony in Front of the Bingo Parlor at the Fryeburg Fair in Fryeburg, Maine (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on October 26, 2022)

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A Bronze Statue, by Sculptors Edward Clark Potter and Daniel Chester French, of Charles Devens (Union General in the Civil War and the Attorney General of the United States Under President Rutherford B. Hayes) Mounted on His Horse Stands Next to the Old Worcester County District Courthouse in Worcester, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on March 10, 2017)

Hip Scare Crow
A Hip Scarecrow Wearing Dark Shades Caught Riding Sidesaddle on A White Carousel Pony in Front of the Bingo Parlor at the Fryeburg Fair in Fryeburg, Maine

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A Flower-Festooned Show Pony Races Against a Gigantic Rooster on the Carousel on Boston Common (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on September 16, 2014)


A Young Colt Seen Standing Outside the Sturbridge Yankee Pedlar on Main Street in Sturbridge, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on January 25, 2016)

Trojan Horse Hampton Beach
“Flower Power”, Lucinda Wierenga’s Entry in This Year’s Hampton Beach Master Sand Sculpting Competition in New Hampshire, Appears to Be a Reinterpretation of the Ancient Greek Legend of the Trojan Horse (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on August 20, 2015)

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A Petite Plastic Pegasus Poses in Front of the Sandaled Feet of a Virgin Mary Statue at St. Joseph Children’s Cemetery in Webster, MA (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on March 14, 2020)

George Washington Public Garden
Thomas Ball’s Bronze Sculpture of General George Washington on Horseback in the Public Garden Is Probably One of the Most Iconic Statues in All of Boston (Originally Published on Gargoyles and Grotesques on August 22, 2015)