Margaret Taylor grew up on a farm in the rural English countryside, where she sang to her sister’s Lincoln Red cow. She has been painting livestock portraits for 20 years and completed hundreds. “I ...

That film took us through the travails of a busy pig. As the title clarifies, Cow deals with a larger farmyard beast. Those who enjoyed the earlier film will find many points of comparison.

Randal Ford remembers the first animal portrait he ever made. “Before I photographed any dogs or cats or tigers or lions,” he said, “I photographed a cow.” A graduate of Texas A&M ...