Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art

This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture.

Jessica Dallow is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Introduction: But the Horse is Much, Much More, 1. Interspecies Entanglements in Edward Troye's Racehorse Portraits, 2. Bone, Speed, and Blood: Schreiber & Sons and the Photographic Equine Portrait, 3. A Girl Who Can Handle a Horse Well: The Rodeo Cowgirl in Early Twentieth-Century Real Photo Postcards, 4. Richard McLean's Equine Acts, Epilogue