Below are shown some horse head type image comparisons. The top image is fro The Wooden Horse 10 A, 1948 and is an actual wooden horse head from a child’s rocking horse mounted on the painting. The other two images appear as though they could have been modeled from the wooden horse head image. Pollock’s use of horses and horse head type imagery dates back to his internship with Benton. Clearly copied images of Picasso’s style of horse can be seen scattered throughout his early paintings and Pollock’s series of psychoanalytical drawings. The horse head representation in the Study painting is located in the same area and orientation as the horse image in The Wooden Horse 10A.

Study Painting