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.
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Figurative bronze of a hound baying.
🎨🐕 Here's looking at you! Arthur Jed Smalley's figurative bronze at the Museum of Hounds and Hunting in Middleburg, Virginia, is this week's #ArtfulPup. Happy spring!
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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.
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🎨🐕 We spotted this week’s #ArtfulPup in this Royal Collection Trust print of "Windsor Castle, Entrance from the Town.” It’s part of a current exhibition on King George and George Washington on view at the Library of Congress.
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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.
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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.
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Three men wrapped in blankets with a black and white dog in the foreground. A dark hogan is in the background. Bright red foreground.
🎨 🐕 You can thank expressionist painter Fritz Scholder (La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians) for this week’s #ArtfulPup. It appears in his 1968 piece, “Three Navajos and a Dog” from the museum collection of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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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.
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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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1950s movie poster with a green background showing a sheepdog driving a car, chased by a police cruiser.
🎨🐕 Spied at the AKC Museum of the Dog, this week’s #ArtfulPup is the Old English Sheepdog adorning the 1959 movie poster for the Walt Disney fantasy, “The Shaggy Dog" in which the powers of a magical ring turn teenager Wilby Daniels into a dog with comedic consequences.
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