small diorama of three riders on horseback in a paddock or yard area with five foxhounds playing alongside them.

🎨🐕 An #ArtfulPup can be tiny. . . just like the ones in this miniature diorama from 1962 engraved to Ginevra Mitchell Bermingham and on view in the library of Middleburg, Virginia's National Sporting Library and Museum.

#canineart #dogsinart #museumdogs #dogsinmuseums

Dog form on a pedestal with a horse form.

🎨🐕 This week's #ArtfulPup is hanging out in the interactive display about horse cultures in the imagiNATIONS Activity Center at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC.

#museumdogs #dogsinmuseums #canineart #dogsinart

painting of six foxhounds running towards the viewer in a sun-dappled field.

🎨🐕 Hope you're enjoying the weekend just as much as the dogs in this week's #ArtfulPup selection. These working hounds are the subject of "Breaking Cover," a 1994 painting by Andre Pater at the National Sporting Library and Museum in Middleburg, VA.

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framed square textile depicting six foxhounds. The border is comprised of four foxes and various elements from foxhunting

🐕🎨 Today's #ArtfulPup selection is this scarf designed by Jane Gaston for the centennial of the Middleburg Hunt in 2006. It is on view at the Museum of Hounds and Hunting in Leesburg, Virginia.

#museumdogs #canineart #dogsinmuseums #foxhound

Oil on canvas painting in a gold frame is in landscape format and depicts a bustling city scene in 19th-century Philadelphia.

🎨🐕 Check out the #ArtfulPup outside Philadelphia's Independence Hall in 1858! This painting by Danish-American artist Ferdinand Richart hangs in the Green Room of the White House.

#dogsinart #canineart #museumdogs #dogsinmuseums

Plush dalmatian dog seated atop a 1929 fire engine in a history museum.

🎨🐕 This week's #ArtfulPup is the dalmatian sitting atop the Seagrave Fire Engine, in use from 1929 to 1947 and on view at the Leesburg Fire Museum.

#dogsinmuseums #museumdogs #dalmatian

Painted silver plaster frieze showing sled dogs, sled, a man, and snow in Alaska.

🎨🐕 Today's #ArtfulPup comes to you from the Robert Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington DC. The sled dogs are on one of 12 panels depicting the "Physiographic and Industrial Regions of the National Domain" created by Henry Kreis in 1933-34.

#canineart #dogsinart #museumdogs

A pack of pointer-like hunting dogs chase a wild boar through a forested area. A rider on horseback with a french horn is in pursuit at the middle distance at right.

🎨🐕 It’s a spirted hunt scene for this week’s #ArtfulPup. Michael Lyne’s 1970 painting, “Charging Wild Boar,” depicts a pursuit in Ardennes, Belgium. We saw this piece on view at the National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, Virginia.

#dogsinart #canineart #museumdogs

It's #MuseumDog day today!
This is a VID (Very Important Dog) who visited a few days ago.
We're not allowed to publish her name as she is training to become a Guide Dog but she did very well, with her first ever vintage bus ride. #guidedogs #museumdogs
Dog Friendly Sussex

Oil painting on panel showing the interior of a place with various people, two dogs, and a monkey.

🎨🐕 The #ArtfulPup feature of the week is Dutch artist Bartholomeus van Bassen’s 1616 interpretation of the story of the “Return of the Prodigal Son,” and two dogs feature prominently in the painting. See it on view at Michigan’s Detroit Institute of Arts.

#dogsinart #museumdogs #dogsinmuseums

We have an Office Dog for a couple of weeks! This is Holsten, who's 2 and being a Very Good Boy.
#museumdogs #dogsofamberley #officedog #verygoodboy

Seven-year-old Charlie is often here, comfortably resting in the background. He oversees bus restoration for the Southdowns Omnibus Trust, making sure that all work is up to scratch!
#museumdogs #amberleydogs #dogsofamberley

The wonderful Dexter visited with his family on Mother's Day. He is nearly two and had never been on a train before, so this is Dexter being a Very Good Boy!
#museumdogs #dogsofamberley #amberleydogs #dogsontrains

Meet Pip of the Road Steam group, sitting on the coal box of a traction engine.
Pip is a long-standing volunteer at the Museum and can often be seen on a Sunday, overseeing steam activities!
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This is Tinks, who helps run the Pottery with Maple and Nancy Scantlebury-Thompson, our wonderful potter.
As you can see, Tinks is accomplished in her own right and really doesn't like having her creative process interrupted!
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Meet Cookie! She is 5 years old and part of our Welcome Team.
If you turn up on the right day, she'll be there to say hello!

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Meet Percy, a very enthusiastic Road Steam volunteer, travelling on our 1936 Wallis and Steevens Road Roller!

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Painting of a clothed monkey seated atop a cabinet and surrounded by six dogs of varying breeds wearing circus costumes.

🎨🐕 New year, new art! We start 2025 with our 567th(!) #ArtfulPup feature, and it’s an 1874 piece by Belgian artist Vincent de Vos. “Circus Companions” pairs a monkey with a menagerie of costumed canine friends. It’s on view at the AKC Museum of Dog in New York City.

#museumdogs #canineart

Vizsla dog Yonder standing on a sandy beach against a brilliant blue sky. He has sand on his nose.

First post over here on @bsky.app and I'm going with a photo of me, Yonder (with sand on my nose!), and some REALLY blue sky at one my favorite spots: Acadia.

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