Kimbell Art Museum acquire Viscount Bolingbroke's Stubbs
July 3 2024
Picture: Kimbell Art Museum
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
News from the USA that the Kimbell Art Museum have acquired George Stubbs' Mares and Foals Belonging to the Second Viscount Bolingbroke. The picture, a purchase made through the London dealers Simon C. Dickinson Ltd., was acquired in memory of Ben J. Fortson, who served on the Foundation’s Board of Directors from 1964 to his passing earlier in May.
According to the press release:
The acquisition, along with that of Thomas Gainsborough’s painting Going to Market, Early Morning (c. 1773), purchased by the Kimbell in 2023, significantly elevates the Kimbell’s holdings of eighteenth-century British paintings, which Velma and Kay Kimbell favored when initially building their collection. The painting will be on view in the Kimbell’s Louis I. Kahn Building beginning June 28, 2024.
“With a mandate to collect only works of major historical and aesthetic importance, the Kimbell is the natural home for this masterpiece,” said Eric Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “I am sure that it will become an audience favorite. Visitors to the museum will relish the multidimensional depiction of mares and foals—alive with subtle drama, imbued with tenderness, and fascinating in its expression of the individual personalities of each horse.
