Ryder’s painting Racetrack is said to have been inspired by a real life incident involving a suicide following a betting fiasco. Here my impetus was simply the universal allure of gambling meccas, after a modest lucky streak in Reno. Winning is depicted by a lovely young woman; losing by the grim reaper of a stickman, with his stick for a scythe.
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