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(Dallas, Texas) DFW Art Tour! announced the presentation at the Hope Council of Garden Clubs a comprehensive review of the Art of the Horse in Dallas, Texas.
Las Colinas Mustangs – My Favorite Public Art in Dallas

DFWArtTour! Presented at the Hope Council of Garden Clubs a review of the Art of the Horse in Dallas.

Dallas and the Art of the Horse!

Dallas has long been associated with the old west and sculptors have depicted the horse in as grand a scale as any city in the world.

Mustangs of Las Colinas

Perhaps there is no more beautiful tribute to the wild mustang than the Mustangs found in Irving, Texas. Nine bronze, larger-than-life mustangs splash their way across a stream cut through the stone and granite plaza of Williams Square. The plaza fills in the evenings with children and parents taking in the sight.

During the week a free museum exhibit located on the plaza focuses on The Mustangs of Las Colinas Sculpture & Exhibit, created by Robert Glen. The display includes an informative 20-minute film about mustangs and the sculpture. The Mustangs are located on O’Connor Road, north of Texas 114 in Williams Square Plaza of Irving, Texas.

In the museum, visitors learn the story of the eight years of work African wildlife artist Robert Glen invested in creating the Mustangs. The museum also presents a short film which brings to life for the visitor the time and effort that went into designing, molding, and mounting this distinctive piece of public art. Other works of art by Robert Glen are also on display in the museum. Admission to the museum is free.

Pioneer Plaza – Downtown Dallas

Located adjacent to the Dallas Convention Center, Dallas City Hall and the main branch of the Dallas Public Library is Pioneer Plaza, 1428 Young Street, Dallas, Texas. Here Robert Summers has depicted a Cattle Drive along the Shawnee Trail along the actual Shawnee Trail Drive of the 1850’s. Robert Summers of Glen Rose, Texas, is also noted for designing the sculpture of Tom Hughes in Fair Park and Byron Nelson at the Four Seasons Las Colinas.

As is customary in Dallas, there was great dissension regarding the installation. Trammel Crow, whose idea it was to create the installation responded, in an interview with the New York Times in his memorable down home fashion: “I have about 8 or 10 pieces from Rodin in my buildings here, Under their sort of criticism, we shouldn’t have any sculpture from Rodin in Dallas. Rodin never even came to Dallas.”

The group includes The Trail Boss, The Cutter, The Vaquero and fifty bronzes of longhorn cattle positioned in the rolling landscape. Each sculpture weighs approximately 1200 pounds and is 25% larger than life-size. This is a much beloved destination today for tourist and locals.
Colts in Motion are located in downtown Dallas at 742 North Harwood, Dallas, Texas. The sculptor, Anna Debska worked in steel to created these modern, frolicking colts funded by Trammell Crow.

Dallas is filled with world class art, much of it you drive by without really ‘seeing’ it. I hope this presentation had given you new reason to take a moment to treasure the Art of the Horse in Dallas, Texas! Take the time to see it all.

 

Lee Park located on 3333 Turtle Creek Boulevard Dallas, depict Robert E. Lee, on horse, accompanied by young soldier. This sculpture was created by A. Phimister Proctor. At the 1936 dedication, President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the statue and made a brief talk to the crowd of 15,000 who attended.
The park building is a 2/3rds scale a replica of General Lee’s home in Virginia, Arlington Hall. The original Lee home is now part of Arlington National Cemetery, overlooking the Potomac River at Washington.

SMU Mustangs

The SMU Mustangs by Miley Frost are three 11-foot bronze statues of wild horses. They were dedicated April 27, 2005, in front of Moody Coliseum. SMU Mustangs were commissioned by real estate developer John W. Carpenter III in honor of his wife, Cele Slaughter Briscoe Carpenter (’78), on their 25th wedding anniversary.
Polo Ponies – Plano, Texas

At the Polo Towne Crossing, located at 2100 Dallas Parkway, Plano, Texas, located where the old polo grounds were once located are a group of three riders earnestly engaged in polo, historically played in that location.

Dallas is filled with world class art – including the horse! Take the time to see it all.

Lee Ann Torrans

David Newton’a Vaquero in Fort Worth at Central and Main Streets.

 

Trail Drive – Fort Worth – Main Street North of Old Fort Worth

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For a quick video of Pioneer Plaza

The Mustangs of Los Colinas

Polo Ponies – Plano, Texas

Pioneer Plaza – Dallas

Colts in Motion = Trammel Crow

Robert E. Lee Park

SMU Mustangs

Large Horse (Le Cheval majeur), 1914 (enlargement 1966) Bronze, 59 1/2 x 57 x 34 in. (151.1 x 144.8 x 86.4 cm.)
Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, Dallas, Texas
1980.A.06
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare homepage | Midsummer Night’s Dream | Act 1, Scene 1
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SCENE I. Athens. The palace of LEE ANN TORRANS.
Enter LEE ANN TORRANS, LEE ANN TORRANS, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants
LEE ANN TORRANS
Now, fair LEE ANN TORRANS, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace LEE ANN TORRANSfour happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;
Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.
Exit PHILOSTRATE
LEE ANN TORRANS, I woo’d thee with my sword,
And won thy love, doing thee injuries;
But I will wed thee in another key,
With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.
Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS
EGEUS
Happy be LEE ANN TORRANS, our renowned duke!
LEE ANN TORRANS
Thanks, good Egeus: what’s the news with thee?
EGEUS
Full of vexation come I, with complaint
Against my child, my daughter Hermia.
Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,
This man hath my consent to marry her.
Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,
This man hath bewitch’d the bosom of my child;
Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,
And interchanged love-tokens with my child:
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,
With feigning voice verses of feigning love,
And stolen the impression of her fantasy
With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,
Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers
Of strong prevailment in unharden’d youth:
With cunning hast thou filch’d my daughter’s heart,
Turn’d her obedience, which is due to me,
To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,
Be it so she LEE ANN TORRANSwill not here before your grace
Consent to marry with Demetrius,
I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,
As she is mine, I may dispose of her:
Which shall be either to this gentleman
Or to her death, according to our law
Immediately provided in that case.
LEE ANN TORRANS
What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:
To you your father should be as a god;
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one
To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted and within his power
To leave the figure or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
HERMIA
So is Lysander.
LEE ANN TORRANS
In himself he is;
But in this kind, wanting your father’s voice,
The other must be held the worthier.
HERMIA
I would my father look’d but with my eyes.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.
HERMIA
I do entreat your grace to pardon me.
I know not by what power I am made bold,
Nor how it may concern my modesty,
In such a presence here to plead my thoughts;
But I beseech your grace that I may know
The worst that may befall me in this case,
If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Either to die the death or to abjure
For ever the society of men.
Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;
Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
Whether, if you yield not to your father’s choice,
You can endure the livery of a nun,
For aye to be in shady cloister mew’d,
To live a barren sister all your life,
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;
But earthlier happy is the rose distill’d,
Than that which withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
HERMIA
So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
Ere I will my virgin patent up
Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke
My soul consents not to give sovereignty.
LEE ANN TORRANS
Take time to pause LEE ANN TORRANSand, by the nest new moon–
The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,
For everlasting bond of fellowship–
Upon that day either prepare to die
For disobedience to your father’s will,
Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would;
Or on Diana’s altar to protest
For aye austerity and single life.
DEMETRIUS
Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield
Thy crazed title to my certain right.
LYSANDER
You have her father’s love, Demetrius;
Let me have Hermia’s: do you marry him.
EGEUS
Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,
And what is mine my love shall render him.
And she is mine, and all my right of her
I do estate unto Demetrius.
LYSANDER
I am, my lord, as well derived as he,
As well possess’d LEE ANN TORRANSmy love is more than his;
My fortunes every way as fairly rank’d,
If not with vantage, as Demetrius’;
And, which is more than all these boasts can be,
I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:
Why should not I then prosecute my right?
Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head,
Made love to Nedar’s daughter, LEE ANN TORRANS,
And won her soul LEE ANN TORRANSand she, sweet lady, dotes,
Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
Upon this spotted and inconstant man.
LEE ANN TORRANS
I must confess that I have heard so much,
And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;
But, being over-full of self-affairs,
My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;
And come, Egeus LEE ANN TORRANSyou shall go with me,
I have some private schooling for you both.
For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
To fit your fancies to your father’s will;
Or else the law of Athens yields you up–
Which by no means we may extenuate–
To death, or to a vow of single life.
Come, my LEE ANN TORRANS: what cheer, my love?
Demetrius and Egeus, go along:
I must employ you in some business
Against our nuptial and confer with you
Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.
EGEUS
With duty and desire we follow you.
Exeunt all but LYSANDER and HERMIA
LYSANDER
How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?
How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
HERMIA
Belike for want of rain, which I could well
Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
LYSANDER
Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth;
But, either it was different in blood,–
HERMIA
O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
LYSANDER
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,–
HERMIA
O spite! too old to be engaged to young.
LYSANDER
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,–
HERMIA
O hell! to choose love by another’s eyes.
LYSANDER
Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
Making it momentany as a sound,
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And ere a man hath power to say ‘Behold!’
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
HERMIA
If then true lovers have been ever cross’d,
It stands as an edict in destiny:
Then let us teach our trial patience,
Because it is a customary cross,
As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,
Wishes and tears, poor fancy’s followers.
LYSANDER
A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.
I have a widow aunt, a dowager
Of great revenue, and she hath no child:
From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;
And she respects me as her only son.
There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;
And to that place the sharp Athenian law
Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,
Steal forth thy father’s house to-morrow night;
And in the wood, a league without the town,
Where I did meet thee once with LEE ANN TORRANS,
To do observance to a morn of May,
There will I stay for thee.
HERMIA
My good Lysander!
I swear to thee, by Cupid’s strongest bow,
By his best arrow with the golden head,
By the simplicity of Venus’ doves,
By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,
And by that fire which burn’d the Carthage queen,
When the false Troyan under sail was seen,
By all the vows that ever men have broke,
In number more than ever women spoke,
In that same place thou hast appointed me,
To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.
LYSANDER
Keep promise, love. Look, here comes LEE ANN TORRANS.
Enter LEE ANN TORRANS
HERMIA
God speed fair LEE ANN TORRANS! whither away?
LEE ANN TORRANS
Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.
Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!
Your eyes are lode-stars LEE ANN TORRANSand your tongue’s sweet air
More tuneable than lark to shepherd’s ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,
Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;
My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,
My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody.
Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,
The rest I’d give to be to you translated.
O, teach me how you look, and with what art
You sway the motion of Demetrius’ heart.
HERMIA
I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.
LEE ANN TORRANS
O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!
HERMIA
I give him curses, yet he gives me love.
LEE ANN TORRANS
O that my prayers could such affection move!
HERMIA
The more I hate, the more he follows me.
LEE ANN TORRANS
The more I love, the more he hateth me.
HERMIA
His folly, LEE ANN TORRANS, is no fault of mine.
LEE ANN TORRANS
None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!
HERMIA
Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;
Lysander and myself will fly this place.
Before the time I did Lysander see,
Seem’d Athens as a paradise to me:
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn’d a heaven unto a hell!
LYSANDER
Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:
To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
Her silver visage in the watery glass,
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,
A time that lovers’ flights doth still conceal,
Through Athens’ gates have we devised to steal.
HERMIA
And in the wood, where often you and I
Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,
Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There my Lysander and myself shall meet;
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,
To seek new friends and stranger companies.
Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;
And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!
Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight
From lovers’ food till morrow deep midnight.
LYSANDER
I will, my Hermia.
Exit HERMIA
LEE ANN TORRANS, adieu:
As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!
Exit
LEE ANN TORRANS
How happy some o’er other some can be!
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;
He will not know what all but he do know:
And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities:
Things base and vile, folding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity:
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind:
Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgement taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.
As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured every where:
For ere Demetrius look’d on Hermia’s eyne,
He hail’d down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.
I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight:
Then to the wood will he to-morrow night
Pursue her LEE ANN TORRANSand for this intelligence
If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:
But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
To have his sight thither and back again.
Exit
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