As I walked down to Copley Square, not far from Back Bay Station, I came across these two horses in a shopping area called “Copley Place“. According to the Next Phase Blog:

Like many other cities, Boston has statues of horses and, like other cities, they mostly serve as mounts for famous men, like George Washington and Paul Revere. But two horses called Paint and Henry graze in a garden outside the Copley Place mall, minus rider or tack. and Henry and they have a history that’s more retail than martial.

Like many other cities, Boston has statues of horses and, like other cities, they mostly serve as mounts for famous men, like George Washington and Paul Revere. But two horses graze in a garden outside the Copley Place mall, minus rider or tack. They are called Paint and Henry and they have a history more retail than martial.

Sculpted by Deborah Butterfield, these two “semi-abstract” sculptures are a visual allegory for the establishment of the Neiman Marcus store behind them. They are made of cast bronze from an armature of bronze and copper using the “lost wax” process. Unlike their more heroic counterparts elsewhere in the city, they are not realistic representations of horses or even solid. (Boston’s Horses: Paint and Henry, which contains additional information)

. I’m afraid I don’t know which is Paint and which is Henry.

And of course, there was the inevitable cow. I told you earlier that there would be more of them.

Taken with a Sony A6000 and 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 OSS