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William Tylee Ranney

Hunting Wild Horses

1846

Oil on canvas

36 in x 54 1/2 in (91.4 cm x 138.4 cm); Framed: 40 1/2 in x 58 1/2 in x 2 7/8 in (102.8 cm x 148.5 cm x 7.3 cm)

Museum purchase

88.108.3

Autry Museum of the American West

Art and Artifacts

Painting by William Tylee Ranney, Hunting Wild Horses, 1846. Signed bottom left. The wild horses of the West embodied the freedom of movement associated with life on the plains. At the same time, they were an economic resource. In 1846, one traveler described them as a “valuable article of export, as they are innumerable, and cost only the trouble of catching.” William Tylee Ranney’s painting embodies this tension between the notion of a wild West and one that has been tamed.

Art of the West (exhibition)

cowboys--riding

horses

landscapes

California this golden land of promise / Joan Irvine Smith, Jean Stern ; foreword by James L. Doti ; timeline by James Irvine Swinden. page 181

Art of the West selected works from the Autry Museum / edited by Amy Scott ; foreword by Stephen Aron ; afterword by Brian W. Dippie. page 67

American material culture and the Texas experience itinerant and immigrant artists and artisans in 19th-century Texas. Page 9

In the days of the vaqueros America’s first true cowboys / by Russell Freedman pages x, 66, 67

West-fever Brian W. Dippie ; introduction by James H. Nottage. page 113

The art of William Ranney by Sarah E. Boehme. page 94

The West of the imagination William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann. page 88

Wild West. Page 1

Hoofbeats and heartbeats the horse in American art / curator, Ingrid Cartwright ; coordinating curator, Janie Welker. page 88

The art of Texas 250 years / edited by Ron Tyler. page 13

Celebrating Texas honoring the past, building the future. page 169

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