Overall: 12 3/4 x 11 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (32.4 x 28.6 x 10.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on back of base: "ELKINGTON 808"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.300
Classification:
Sculptures
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
jockey | sporting art | horse (animal)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Taste & Beauty in Three Dimensions: Paul Mellon and British Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-10-23 - 2004-02-15)The Paul Mellon Bequest : Treasures of a Lifetime (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-02-17 - 2001-04-29)
Publications:
Taste & beauty in three dimensions : Paul Mellon and British sculpture, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 2002, p. [7], no. 27, V 1426 (YCBA)Malcolm Warner, The Paul Mellon Bequest : treasures of a lifetime, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 95, N5247 M385 P28 2001 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
John Willis Good, a student of Joseph Edgar Boehm (whose work is shown elsewhere on this floor), had established himself as the leading sporting sculptor in Britain by the early 1870s. He was best known for his models of race horses, which were often conceived in pairs, as in these bronzes of a horse before and after a race. His career was tragically cut short when he took his own life at the age of thirty-four. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016