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Dead Horse and Rider in a Trench
Painted in 1918 by Maurice Cullen (1866–1934)

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The agitated brushwork below the horse’s head reveals the artist’s horror at the nature of this subject matter. Carcasses of dead horses littered the landscape of the western front.

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