Image Analysis of Albert Pinkham Ryder s Death on a Pale Horse
Image Analysis of Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Death on a Pale Horse Albert Pinkham Ryder painted an oil painting based on a horse race that took place in New York in 1888. A person Ryder knew bet $500 on the race, and after loosing committed suicide. Death on a Pale Horse shows a skeleton on horse back holding a scythe over his head. ... The horse runs on a race track but going the opposite direction that the horses usually run. ... The texture is rough because Ryder used bitumen which is asphalt as ground and glaze.