The Yearling

This is a fun piece art that makes you feel tiny like Alice in wonderland. I like the play on sizes with the mini horse and the giant chair. The red makes the piece pop.

There’s a childish quality to the piece of art… seeing the little horse on the big chair makes you want to go home and play in the sandbox!

Not sure why this makes everyone so happy. Then again, I am one of those who love the fierce blue bronco. If this sculpture was to battle big blue, I think we all know who would be triumphant!
A big red eyesore is my impression of this artwork. I guess it plays with scale and making the mundane seem ‘whimsical’, but up less than a block away is a far better example of these notions.
I guess I am the rare bird who disagrees with the norm on this public art, but it could’ve been a unicorn on a rocking chair at least that would make one think!

Alright guys, I’ve got to admit it. I love this piece!
It’s whimsical, silly, and fun. Every time I see it, it makes me laugh and smile.
Big red chair + tiny horse = fantastic public art!

I adore this piece. I can’t really put into words why, I just really do. It was one of the first pieces of public art I saw when I first came to Denver. I loved it then, and I still love it now. It makes me happy when I cruise by. I like how it’s displayed right downtown in the center of it all for everyone to see. It totally speaks of Denver. Fun, free, silly, unique. Does the pony have a name?

My favorite Denver art installation since my youth. And also an occasional character is the Zippy comics (look out for it).
Agree with the other reviewers that this horse beats the scary D.I.A. horse any day (perhaps a majestic battle is at hand).

The Big Red Chair reminds me of modern art that I feel I just can’t get enough of. Probably because that is my main type of art that I enjoy and there is always something refreshing about modern art. Case in point with the Big Red Chair. I love walking up to it and just gazing at it or when I am visit Denver and I am in the neighborhood have a sigh of nostalgia of the years that I visited it during my misspent youth.

The Yearling is one of my favorite pieces of public art in Denver. It’s whimsical and fanciful, and it makes me smile every time I see it, unlike some other, more blue, more demonic horse statues
It looks best in autumn and winter when it’s framed by turning foliage or snow.

I admit I’m partial to this in part because it’s right in my favorite part of downtown: near the library, art museum, capitol, and city and county building. I have a lovely photo of it from srot of behind it that includes the capitol and some lovely fall foliage that’s been my iphone’s wallpaper for nearly a year. It’s interesting and a conversation starter, for sure.
I also noticed, like another reviewer, that the horse was missing for a while but it was returned. When it first went missing I thought frat-​like pranks? But now that it’s back I wonder if it was just maintenance.

On the lawn of the Denver public Library, beside the Denver Art Museum entrance, stands the 21 foot tall big red chair. Also known as «the Yearling.» This piece used to sit in Central Park in New York city in 1997. It found a more comfy seat in Denver, in 1998. The artist, Donald Lipski originally designed the piece for an elementary school in Manhattan. When the school asked Lipski to loose the pony he disagreed and it went to live in the park. (This is the weird part, I was just there, right in front of the chair a week ago and I didn’t see the pony on the seat, as I have in the past.) Where’s the pony? Anyone seen a six foot tall pony?
Pony or not, I like this piece. It does as the artist suggests, evokes memories of when every day objects seemed monumental. People can relate to it, interact with it, and even want to be seen near it.