Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Untitled (1992) Bronze, 15 1/4 x 24 x 36 inches Purchased with funds donated by the Kemper Foundations. This sculpture is an example of Deborah Butterfield’s interest in using abstracted animal forms to engage the viewer.  A lifelong interest with horses influences her choice of subject.  Using a variety of materials, Butterfield has created pieces that retain the original forms of the materials while depicting both the exterior and interior lines of the animal.  This work in Albrecht-Kemper collection is cast in bronze, a durable medium for a work that appears instead to be a fragile mixture of natural materials like leaves and branches that also suggest the muscles, bones, and skin of the horse itself.