Horse c. 1939

Selma Sandler made this Horse, we don’t know when, using what looks like watercolor. It's fascinating how Sandler embraced the process, letting the medium guide the way. The material quality is really interesting: look at how the texture and color create a sense of depth. It’s not just a flat image; it feels like there’s a real object there, in the way the light falls. Notice the little dots that make up the horse’s body. It's a kind of all-over pattern, and it seems to flatten the form, yet it also gives it this quirky, folk-art quality. It’s almost as though Sandler is playing with how we perceive things, making us question what’s real and what’s not. This piece reminds me a bit of some of the work of Bill Traylor, another artist who found beauty and meaning in the everyday. Both artists show us that art is about so much more than just technique or representation. It’s about vision, feeling, and the unique way each artist sees the world.