id: 380104 accession number: 2020.201 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.201 updated: 2023-08-24 01:38:27.470000 Belt, 2007. Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949). Cast bronze with patina; overall: 231.1 x 299.7 x 76.2 cm (91 x 118 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.201 © Deborah Butterfield / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Belt title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2007 creation date earliest: 2007 creation date latest: 2007 current location: WL West Lawn creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: © Deborah Butterfield / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America technique: cast bronze with patina department: Contemporary Art collection: CONTEMP - Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 231.1 x 299.7 x 76.2 cm (91 x 118 x 30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Cast at Walla Walla Foundry, Walla Walla, WA, consigned to Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL date: 2007 footnotes: citations: (Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Inc., Chicago, IL, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: 2007 footnotes: citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2007–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Interested in horses from a young age, Butterfield initially felt conflicted about whether to pursue art or veterinary medicine while studying at the University of California, Davis. digital description: To create her life-size horses, American sculptor Deborah Butterfield casts found pieces of wood into bronze, a process that translates the wood’s porous texture into metal. The artist then builds the structure of her sculptures, using her extensive knowledge of the animals to achieve their lifelike postures. Butterfield accomplishes this effect through the placement of the necks and heads of her horses, which she does last. In Belt, the abstract animal is integrated with the surrounding landscape to evoke the artist’s expansive Montana ranch where she has lived, worked, and kept horses for over 30 years. wall description: To create her life-size horses, American sculptor Deborah Butterfield casts found pieces of wood into bronze, a process that translates the wood’s porous texture into metal. The artist then builds the structure of her sculptures, using her extensive knowledge of the animals to achieve their lifelike postures. Butterfield accomplishes this effect through the placement of the necks and heads of her horses, which she does last. In Belt, the abstract animal is integrated with the surrounding landscape to evoke the artist’s expansive Montana ranch where she has lived, worked, and kept horses for over 30 years. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Gordon, Robert. Deborah Butterfield. New York: Abrams, 2010. page number: Reproduced: pp. 182-183, cover url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/495597481 Czajkowski, Alexandra. “Exploring the Fine Arts Garden.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 3 (Summer 2021): 38-39. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 38. url: --- IMAGES