About 1906–1941
Oil on canvas
22” W x 28¼” H
William Robinson Leigh was a turn-of-the-20th-century aficionado of adventure and storytelling in Western American art. In Horses and Whiskey Don’t Mix, he puts the viewer in the middle of the action, as he captures a horse mid-buck and a rider mid-fall. Details such as a cowering dog, alarmed onlooker, and tumbling cowboy hat add charge to the moment, and the finer points of scattered playing cards and a discarded beer bottle help the viewer to imagine the plot.
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Gallup’s New Deal art collection consists of over 120 objects created, purchased, or donated from 1933 to 1942 through New Deal federal art programs administered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to support artists during the Great Depression.
The Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum features three types of exhibits, combining traditional and non-traditional approaches to illuminate academic, creative, and individual understandings.
Gallup’s New Deal art collection includes works by a demographically, professionally, and stylistically diverse group of named and unnamed artists.
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