Wire Sculpture - Stallion by Thai Varick

The mane is a single wavy wire, and it has clearly been running for a while.

This wire sculpture of a stallion dates to the 20th century and is wire, by Thai Varick, 1941-2001. Wire sculpture lets an artist draw in three dimensions, with the outline doing the work of a pencil line and the empty space doing the rest. Here a dense scribble of loops fills the body, chest and haunches, while the head is drawn in a few confident lines with pricked ears. A long squiggling mane rises from the neck. The tail sweeps back in a loose plume, and one foreleg lifts mid-stride.

Plenty of horsepower, very little weight.