Artist Comments: The horse is native to North America. How can that be true you ask? Wasn’t the horse introduced to North America by the Europeans just 500 years ago? Reintroduced is more correct as they evolved in North America over a period of millions of years before disappearing from our continent. True to “The Spirit of the Horse” (L’esprit Du Cheval) it rapidly spread to the wide open spaces and “Freedom” once again after returning to its native land. North America is now home to thousands of wild horses.