The Western Art
of
Frank Allnutt
Mustang on Canvas
Limited Edition Giclee on stretched Artist's Canvas, S/N, from the original acrylic painting on sandstone by Frank Allnutt, pictured below.
Canvases, in select sizes, are available flat, or stretched on wooden stretcher bars, with optional Hand-Crafted, Beetle-Killed Pine Frame similar to the one above. Frame adds approximately 6" to both height and width of stretched canvas. Flat canvas has a minimum 2" white border to facilitate stretching, and is shipped rolled in a mailing tube.
Frank Allnutt's giclees are individual digital enhancements of computer-scanned photos to emulate fine paintings. We use eight Ultrachrome K3 pigmented ink colors with lightfast rating of 108 years. Images are printed in high-resolution and museum-varnished to further help protect against ultraviolet rays and humidity, and to preserve the color values.
Mustang on Sandstone
Original acrylic painting on sandstone, with easel. Approx. size: 9"h x 13"w. #MU051110
History of the Mustang
The tradition of rounding up wild mustangs is still alive in the West. Prized by many cowboys, the wild horses, when trained, become excellent cattle horses.
The mustang was introduced to what is now North America by the Spanish in the 1600s. The name in Spanish means ownerless, lost, or wild. Indians, particularly tribes of plains Indians, acquired them through trade, theft, or rounding up strays and those let loose in the wild by Spanish missionaries who had little use for them. These prized horses transformed many nomadic tribes into horse cultures. As white settlers ventured into the western frontier, many of their horses�of various breeds�found their way into Indian hands. Thus the mustang became a mixed breed. However, the Nez Perce of the North West bred a fairly pure strain of mustangs they called appaloosa, most of which are easily recognized by their brown and black spots and speckles. Wild herds of mustangs over-populated their grazing lands and became a costly nuisance to ranchers, who, out of economic necessity, had to thin their herds. Today, mustangs continue to roam parts of the west and are protected by federal laws. Some mustangs are periodically made available by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for adoption by individuals.