Wildlife Artist Dawn Senior-Trask of Moonhorse Art Studio
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The Moonhorse - bronze horse sculpture

An accomplished rider since childhood, Dawn Senior, of Moonhorse Art Studio, translates her love and respect of horses into the The Moonhorse bronze horse sculpture. This bronze horse sculpture is one of the artist's finest bronzes.

Her skill in vividly capturing the spirit and freedom of the horse is surpassed only by her sensitive attention to detail and her anatomical accuracy.

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The Moonhorse - bronze horse sculpture

The Moonhorse – Dawn’s bronze horse sculpture vividly captures the spirit and movement of horses, especially the wild mustangs of Wyoming.

Size: 15" width x 22" length x 24" high
Price: $4200 
Shipping and handling: $175
Limited Edition of 12
* This bronze horse sculpture is not kept in stock, but is cast as they are ordered.  Because of the long wax process that involves many steps, the wait for this bronze horse sculptures may be several months. Please contact us for more information.

More information about this bronze horse sculpture below.

One night, several years after Dawn’s father, Willoughby, had passed away, she dreamed that she walked with him down a rocky hillside, toward the cabin which the family had built when she was five, and where she’d had such a happy childhood. In her dream, Dawn saw the cabin as a mirror image of the way it sits in reality. In the dream, it sat on the north side of the snowmelt gully.

As Dawn and her father crossed the gully, she saw that a runoff flood had gouged out a small cave. At its entrance they found two oil paintings that evidently had been washed from the earth. Willoughby picked them up and showed them to Dawn, but the dream didn’t make them clear. Dawn thought perhaps they were oil paintings she had made as a child, but she couldn’t be sure. Her father showed them to her again. They glowed with simple, bright colors like the sun’s light, like spring leaves, like sky.

Dawn climbed down into the cave and found an object at the bottom, embedded in the mud. She lifted it and saw a lumpy, crude clay statue of a horse. She thought perhaps she’d made it as a child, but couldn’t be sure.

Then Dawn realized that mud still covered the statue, and when she crumbled that away, she gasped in awe and delight.

The bronze horse sculpture was finely molded, and a beautiful shade of blue. At first Dawn thought the blue patina came from being buried in the earth for a long time. But when she held the bronze horse to the light and turned it in her hands, she saw that it had been freshly polished.

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Now she knew how mysterious and sacred was this gift. She climbed from the cave to show it to her father. He stood silhouetted against the sky, his face in dusky shadow, but Dawn discerned his expression of infinite knowledge, love, and serenity.

Without speaking, Willoughby turned, took a step away, and vanished from sight.

At that moment, the cabin sat on the south side of the gully, as it does in life.

And Dawn knew that her father must resume that journey from which he had paused awhile with her, and from which he had brought the mysterious gift of the blue bronze horse.

When Dawn awoke and wiped away her tears of joy and sorrow, she knew she had to make the bronze horse sculpture her father had given her, so that others could see it. As she modeled the horse in clay, she thought about how her father had taught her to ride when she was too young to remember, and she relived the adventures they’d shared, over the years, when they rode the rugged sagebrush hills.

But it wasn’t until she’d already finished the bronze horse sculpture and entitled it “The Moonhorse” that she remembered the stories Willoughby used to tell her about the Moonhorses. Invisible and silent, they roamed the wild country, and only if you waited, patient and quiet, and learned to love the night, could you feel the touch of their invisible breath of moonbeams. Dawn looked through a box of sketches that her parents saved from her childhood and found, among her first charcoal pictures, many Moonhorses.

Note: A booklet containing this story and accompanying illustrations will be included in the sale of The Moonhorse - bronze horse sculpture.

If you would like more information on our artwork or would like to place an order, email Moonhorse Art Studio or call us 307.327.5381. We look forward to hearing from you!