#BirdsInArt

1 day ago

Maria Theresia van Thielen (Flemish, 1640-1706)
Still Life with #Parrot, 1661
oil on canvas
on display at BMA’s “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition
🆔 The parrot looks like the subspecies of Turquoise-Fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva aestiva) native to E. Brazil - perhaps an import from the Dutch Brazil colony?
PS - Some of her works have likely been misattributed to her father, but fortunately she signed this one, right below the parrot!
#BirdsInArt

Photo of the painting in gold frame on display at museum: Maria-Theresia Van Thielen (Flemish, 1640–1706) Still Life with Parrot, 1661 Oil on canvas 21 × 27 in. (53.34 × 68.58 cm) on loan from Milwaukee Art Museum, M1967.41 http://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=6547 (Painting of a parrot in upper right perched on a grey pillar gazing down upon a fruit and flower arrangement. Pillar is signed with artist's name.)

5 days ago

#ThreeForThursday: a trio of #parrots
Edward Henry Murphy (Irish, c.1796-1841)
Paroquets, c.1830
oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm
National Gallery of Ireland NGI.161:
http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/3063/paroquets
🆔 Scarlet Macaw, Salmon-Crested Cockatoo, Rose-Ringed Parakeet
#BirdsInArt

photo of the painting in gold frame
"Three birds are shown against the ruins of a gothic building: a scarlet macaw, a white Moluccan cockatoo and, behind, a green ring-necked parakeet. The birds' rich colours and their pyramidal arrangement in the painting create a dramatic composition. This is the finest identified painting by the enigmatic artist Edward Henry Murphy. He trained in Dublin and exhibited paintings of still lifes, birds, and animals at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1826-41."
info via National Gallery of Ireland http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/3063/paroquets
image via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_henry_murphy,_pappagalli,_1830_ca.jpg

6 days ago

It’s finally out in the wild! 🙌 My article published today in Archives of Natural History: The ornithology of Agnes Block (1629–1704): Dutch naturalist, artist, collector and patron https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2023.0860
#DutchArt #NaturalHistoryArt #BirdsInArt

1 week ago

#MosaicMonday: #AnicentRoman mosaic, 1st c. CE, Pushkin Museum.
🆔 Top = probably an Alexandrine Parakeet (Psittacula eupatria), native to Asia. Bottom = Domesticated Guineafowl, derived from the Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris), native to Africa. (Both birds known in Europe since #AncientGreek times.)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosaic_birds_pushkin.jpg
#BirdsInArt

photo of a mosaic tile depicting two birds, in frame on display at museum

2 weeks ago

#ThreeForThursday:
Kubo Shunman (1757-1820)
Japanese White-Eyes with Plum Tree and Willow, c.1810
Japanese White-Eyes on a Branch of Peach Tree, c.1805–10
woodblock prints from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, v. 3)
🆔 Zosterops japonicus
Met collection:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54067
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54066
#JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt

Japanese White-eyes w/ Plum Tree and Willow
ink & color on paper
8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in / 21 x 18.6 cm
"Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by poets or poetry groups as a form of New Year’s greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyōka (witty thirty-one syllable verse), inscribed on the prints usually include felicitous imagery connected with spring, which in the lunar calendar begins on the first day of the first month. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.
This album belongs to a set of three compiled by Hayashi Tadamasa, the great Parisian dealer of Japanese art. Hayashi arranged the more than four hundred prints in the set on facing leaves according to themes, or in a way that created an attractive arrangement of designs, complementary in both color and shape. The pigments, printing techniques, and paper used for surimono often were of the highest quality, and represent the epitome of late Edo-period woodblock printing."

Japanese White-eyes on a Branch of Peach Tree
ink & color on paper
8 3/16 x 5 3/8 in / 20.8x13.7cm
"Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by poets or poetry groups as a form of New Year’s greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyōka (witty thirty-one syllable verse), inscribed on the prints usually include felicitous imagery connected with spring, which in the lunar calendar begins on the first day of the first month. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.
This album belongs to a set of three compiled by Hayashi Tadamasa, the great Parisian dealer of Japanese art. Hayashi arranged the more than four hundred prints in the set on facing leaves according to themes, or in a way that created an attractive arrangement of designs, complementary in both color and shape. The pigments, printing techniques, and paper used for surimono often were of the highest quality, and represent the epitome of late Edo-period woodblock printing."

2 weeks ago

For #WatercolorWednesday: Mallard Duck in Flight, 1897, by Scottish wildlife artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mallard_Duck_in_Flight_by_Archibald_Thorburn_1897,_watercolor.jpg
#BirdsInArt #Ducks

2 weeks ago

#TwoForTuesday:
Pair of #Parrot Pitchers
manufactured by Holiçs (Hungary), late 18th c.
tin-glazed earthenware
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection: https://www.si.edu/object/pair-pitchers:chndm_1953-17-135-a_d
#BirdsInArt

Green parrot perched on branch, which forms handle. Top of head and upper beak form lid. Light pinkish paste with white glaze, completely covered with bright colors.
Dimensions
a) H x W x D: 22.8 × 14.3 × 20 cm (9 in. × 5 5/8 in. × 7 7/8 in.)
b) H x W x D: 22.8 × 14.6 × 20 cm (9 in. × 5 3/4 in. × 7 7/8 in.)

Jakob Bogdani (Hungarian, c.1660-1724)
Asian Silkie Fowls and South American
Parrot in an Imaginary Landscape, c. 1700-10
Oil on canvas, 86 1/2 x 45 1/4 in
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
🆔 that “South American Parrot” is a Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna)
#BirdsInArt

painting in gold frame on maroon wall on display at museum Asian Silkie Fowls and South American Parrot in an Imaginary Landscape (Primary Title) Elegant Fowl (Former Title) Jakob Bogdany, Hungarian, active in England, ca. 1660 - 1724 (Artist) Date: ca. 1700-1710 Medium: Oil on canvas Collection: European Art Dimensions: Unframed: 86 1/2 x 45 1/4 in. (Est.) Framed: 86 3/4 x 44 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. Object Number: L2020.6.62 Location: G211C - Saunders Collection: Chinoiserie

sign: ““Bogdani specialized in animal painting in an era when many wealthy Europeans paid large sums of money to obtain rare birds and other seemingly exotic animals from the far corners of the globe. As colonial empires were expanding at the turn of the 18th century, the traffic in species from remote locations was just another facet of the general fashion for foreign goods, such as food and luxury items, that asserted the international pretensions of the ruling classes of Europe. As an artist who made his career in an international context, Bogdani was truly a man of his time. He was born in Hungary, but he established his reputation as a painter in Amsterdam before relocating to England toward the end of the 168os. This painting is characteristic of his English period and exhibits a familiarity with the subject matter that was gained by his close study of the collection of exotic birds amassed by the dukes of Marlborough. The inclusion of a macaw from South America and a family of silkie fowls from the Far East points to the extensive colonizing ambitions associated with the fascination for the exotic at the dawn of the so-called Enlightened Age.”

More from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts visit:
Greek (Boeotian)
Geometric Kantharos, 720-700 BC
Dipylon shield flanked by birds*
Terracotta

*The birds are probably ostriches since they are clearly rendered with two toes. (Ostriches are the only living birds with just two toes, an adaptation that helps with their speedy sprinting.)

#BirdsInArt

photo of the vase on display at museum, front view

sign: Greek (Boeotian) Geometric Kantharos, 720-700 BC Dipylon shield flanked by birds Terracotta Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund, 87.392 The central image on this vase is a dipylon shield. No one knows if such shields were used or if this is an artistic motif descended from the figure-eight shields found centuries earlier in earlier Mycenaean art. The dipylon shield evolved into the "Boeotian" shield, which probably only existed in art and which served as a civic emblem on coins minted in the Boeotian city-state of Thebes, as on the nearby example.

#birdsinart #womenartists

More #ToucanTuesday: #toucan paintings by Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891–1978)
1 Tukanjäger, 1943
oil on burlap 90 x 70 cm
https://mutualart.com/Artwork/Tukanjager/5A7B74F2936680C1
2 Toucans, n.d.
oil on canvas 100 x 82 cm
https://tajan.com/auction-lot/norbertine-bresslern-roth-1891-1978-toucans-hui_929ACB39B5

Tukanjäger, 1943
painting, oil on burlap 90 x 70 cm

Toucans, n.d.
painting, oil on canvas 100 x 82 cm

#birdsinart #womenartists

#ToucanTuesday:
#toucan prints by Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891–1978)
Toucans in a Tree, 1924
linocut 28.6×22.1cm
https://tinyurl.com/mek33y6a
Guianan Toucanets, 1928
linocut 28x24cm
https://tinyurl.com/2s46xk76
Toucans, 1925-30
woodcut 20x19cm
https://tinyurl.com/szxhn2wa

Toucans in a Tree, 1924
color linocut 28.6×22.1cm

Guianan Toucanets, 1928
color linocut 28x24cm

#WoodpeckerWednesday:
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865–1931)
The Great Black #Woodpecker, 1893
gouache on paper, 145 × 90 cm
Kansallisgalleria Finnish National Gallery A-1996-2 https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/511912
#BirdsInArt

painting of a black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) on tree in native landscape

#WoodpeckerWednesday:
Walter Alois Weber (American, 1906-1979)
Ivory-Billed #Woodpeckers, late 1930s
Oil on canvas, W 61.2, L 45.7 cm
National Park Service Museum Management Program WASOA 25: https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/landscape_art/exb/American_Experiences/Wildlife/WASOA-25-Woodpeckers-Weber.html
#BirdsInArt

Painting of an ivory-billed woodpecker pair in their native landscape; female on tree, male in flight

#ToucanTuesday:
Handle Spout Vessel in Form of a #Toucan
#Moche culture, North Coast Peru, 100 BCE–500 CE
Ceramic & pigment
22.9 × 17.2 cm (9 × 6 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago 1957.406: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6326/handle-spout-vessel-in-form-of-a-toucan
#BirdsInArt #IndigenousArt #PeruvianArt

#ToucanTuesday + #TwoForTuesday :
#ArtDeco #Toucan Bookends by Hippolyte François Moreau (1832-1927), France, 1920s. Bronze sculptures on marble base, H 5.12 in (13 cm) x W 6.3 in (16 cm) x D 3.15 in (8 cm) each. https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/sculptures/animal-sculptures/art-deco-bookends-toucan-hippolyte-francois-moreau-france-1920s/id-f_29203372/
#BirdsInArt

photo of the toucan bookends on white background “Bookends with Toucan. The birds each hold a ball in their beak. Bronze sculptures on marble base. Set of 2.”

#ToucanTuesday:
Bird Pendant (#Toucan)
Costa Rica, Central Region, 4th–7th c.
Jadeite
H. 2 5/8 x W. 3/4 x D. 1 7/8 in. (6.7 x 1.9 x 4.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1979.206.1138: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313330
#IndigenousArt #BirdsInArt

"Tropical Costa Rica is the habitat of an enormous number of bird species, many of which acquired symbolic dimensions in depictions in stone. This pendant, made of a jadeite of great clarity, features a toucan. Yet its upright stance and folded arms indicate that the figure is anthropomorphic, implying perhaps that it is a masked or transformation figure. Adding to the complexity of the image is a trophy head where the figure's feet should be. Disembodied heads are frequent in Precolumbian Costa Rican art. This pendant is said to be from the Atlantic Watershed region, one of the two primary areas of jade use in ancient times. The other is the northwestern province of Guanacaste. Each area is generally associated with characteristic stylistic features in jade and other antiquities."

For #WorldCassowaryDay: #Cassowary recorded in Illustrated Scroll of Birds (Chōrui zukan) Vol.1, Meiji Japan, late 19th c.
🆔 Southern Cassowary aka Double-Wattled Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), native to New Guinea/NE Australia/Aru Islands.
(All cassowaries are native to greater Australasia; they were first imported to Japan by Dutch traders in 1646.)
Harvard Art Museums collection:
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/210958
#JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt

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ICYMI: #Community #BirdsinArt Woodson Art Museum offers free workshop on how to prevent birds from colliding with windows https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/09/14/woodson-art-museum-offers-free-workshop-on-how-to-prevent-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#Community #BirdsinArt Woodson Art Museum offers free workshop on how to prevent birds from colliding with windows https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/09/14/woodson-art-museum-offers-free-workshop-on-how-to-prevent-birds-from-colliding-with-windows/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#WoodpeckerWednesday:
Pair of #Woodpeckers
Derby, c.1760-65
Soft-paste porcelain
The Walters Art Museum 48.821, 48.822
#BirdsInArt
“Animals…such as these woodpeckers were produced by many English ceramic factories. Like their Meissen prototypes, they were often used to decorate dining tables during the fruit and dessert courses.”

stitched photo of pair of porcelain perched woodpeckers painted in fanciful colors, on display at museum, with label

#Caturday at MoMA NYC:
Paul Klee (1879-1940)
#Cat and #Bird, 1928
#CatsInArt #BirdsInArt

Paul Klee German, born Switzerland. 1879-1940 Cat and Bird 1928 Oil and ink on gessoed canvas, mounted on wood Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection Fund and gift of Suzy Prudden and Joan H. Meijer in memory of F. H. Hirschland, 1975 Klee taught the Bauhaus's preliminary course on form, which emphasized that geometric elements-points, lines, shapes, planes are the foundation of art. In his personal work, he combined those investigations with a poetic desire to "make secret visions visible" and to evoke the creativity of children. He composed this picture, for example, using simple lines and shapes: ovals for the cat's eyes, triangles for its ears, and a red heart for the nose. At the center of the watchful cat's forehead is a bird -the object of its thoughts and fantasies.

#TwoForTuesday #macaw woodblock prints from Ohara Koson (aka Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (1877-1945):
1. Red and Blue Parrot, c.1925-1936
Rijksmuseum RP-P-2005-476 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-2005-476
2. Two Macaws, c.1930s
https://ukiyo-e.org/image/artelino/37325g1

#JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt

color woodblock print, long vertical sheet, illustration of a scarlet macaw and blue macaw perched together on a blossoming branch

color woodblock print, a different illustration by the same artists also featuring a scarlet macaw and hyacinth macaw perched together on a branch

#TwoForTuesday #cockatoo woodblock prints from Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (1877-1945):
1. Two Cockatoo and Plum Blossom, 1925 - 1936
Rijksmuseum RP-P-2005-472 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-2005-472
2. Two White Cockatoos on Red Bar, 1930
https://ukiyo-e.org/image/jaodb/Shoson_Ohara-No_Series-Two_White_Cockatoos_on_Red_Bar_B-00036449-050806-F12

#JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt

color woodblock print, illustration of a pair of white cockatoos on a plum blossom branch against black background

color woodblock print, two white cockatoos perched on red bar next to small blue food/water bowl against black background

For International #VultureAwarenessDay:
Bernard Willem Wierink (Dutch, 1856-1939)
Gieren ( #Vultures ), 1919
platecut print, 40.2 h × 21.5 cm w
Rijksmuseum RP-P-1924-380: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-P-1924-380
#birdsinart

color platecut print, illustration of a group of four vultures

For International #VultureAwarenessDay:
Pablo #Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
Le Vautour (The #Vulture)
plate from Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de Buffon (Histoire naturelle)
1936, published 1942, ed. of 226
Aquatint & sugar lift etching w/ drypoint on copper in black on off-white laid paper
Image: 31.5 × 20.5 cm (12 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Sheet: 37.2 × 28.3 cm (14 11/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
AIC 1946.439.14: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/128338/the-vulture-from-histoire-naturelle
#BirdsInArt

Animal Art of the Day for International #VultureAwarenessDay #2: Mansur's #vultures https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2022/09/03/animal-art-of-the-day-for-international-vulture-awareness-day-2-mansurs-vultures/
#BirdsInArt #EndangeredSpecies

Ustād Manṣūr (India, active 1590-1624)
“Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture,” c. 1615–20
Mughal, Jahāngīr Studio
folio from the Shah Jahan Album
ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 55.121.10.12 verso

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for International #VultureAwarenessDay #1: Antoine-Louis Bayre's #vulture watercolors https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2022/09/03/animal-art-of-the-day-for-international-vulture-awareness-day-1-antoine-louis-bayres-vulture-watercolors/
#BirdsInArt

Antoine-Louis Bayre
Vultures on a Tree, c. 1810–75
watercolor on wove paper
27.1 x 38.4cm (10 11/16 x 15 1/8 in)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 29.100.596

Antoine-Louis Bayre
Vulture, c. 1810–75
watercolor on wove paper
7.4 x 11.1cm (2 15/16 x 4 3/8 in)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC 29.100.574

#TilesOnTuesday:
William De Morgan (English, 1839-1917)
#Stork and #Frog Tile
c. 1872-1881
earthenware with copper lustre glazing
15.5 x 15.5 cm
National Gallery of Canada 39225: https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/stork-and-frog-tile
#EnglishArt #BritishArt #BirdsInArt

square ceramic tile, frog and stork with floral background, monochrome red/white

#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:
#Iznik Tile Decorated with a Fountain between Two #Parrots
Bursa province, Ottoman Empire (Türkiye), c.1580s
Fritware w/ white, green, blue, red & transparent glazes
10 3/16 × 9 15/16 in (25.8 × 25.3 cm)
Baltimore Museum of Art 1941.97: https://collection.artbma.org/objects/25922/tile-decorated-with-a-fountain-between-two-parrots
#IslamicArt #OttomanArt #TurkishArt #BirdsInArt

official museum photo of the tile, Iznik style, symmetrical design depicting two green parrots with red/white/blue wings facing each other surrounded by floral designs

Food Bowl: #FrigateBird with #Shark
Melanesian, Solomon Islands, 20th c.
Wood w/ inlaid mother-of-pearl, 8 7/8 x 9 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (22.54 x 23.5 x 71.8cm)
Seattle Art Museum 65.24: https://art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/10813/food-bowl-frigate-bird-with-shark
#IndigenousArt #MelanesianArt #BirdsInArt

Kwak'Wanigaml (#Heron Headdress), c. 1890
Herbert Johnson - (Gayusdisa'las) Kwakwaka'wakw, Kwikwasutinexw, Kingcome, d. 1953
Red cedar, nails, paint, 26 x 13 1/2 x 17 in.
Seattle Art Museum 91.1.31: https://art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/5317/kwakwanigaml-heron-headdress
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt #BirdsInArt

composite photo, official museum photos of the heron headdress on grey background, two views (side profiles)
Photo: Elizabeth Mann /SAM
"Solitary blue herons stand silently on coastlines and in wetlands perched on their thin legs. They wade slowly, sometimes point their head and beak skyward, and often seem as still as a statue. This object includes the sinuous neck and long beak of a heron but no legs beause the heron’s shape has been adapted to serve as a headdress. Stylized designs add a distinctive feature on the crest, wings, and tail. One can only imagine the striking vision of the heron striding into a ceremony atop the head of a leader who honors one of his crest animals."

For a fine feathered Friday:
Ruff Sketches, c. 1895
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (American, 1874-1927)
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 5.5 in.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology art collection BIRD_08203.028:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.12611225
#BirdsInArt

watercolor study of 8 different colors/patterns of Ruff bird head profiles, arranged in 2 rows of 4

Broadsides with woocut scenes of 48 #birds and 48 #quadrupeds, c. 1860-70
Publisher: José María Marés (Spanish, active ca. 1850–70)
Met collection:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/760680
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/760668
#AnimalsInArt #BirdsinArt

Title: Broadside with 48 scenes of birds
Publisher: José María Marés (Spanish, active ca. 1850–70)
Date: ca. 1860–70
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 12 5/8 in. (44 × 32 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978
Accession Number: 1978.643.59(12)

Title: Broadside with 48 scenes of quadrupeds (animals)
Publisher: José María Marés (Spanish, active ca. 1850–70)
Date: ca. 1860–70
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 16 15/16 × 12 3/16 in. (43 × 31 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978
Accession Number: 1978.643.59(9)

Broadsides with woodcut images of 36 #birds (1860) and 36 #quadrupeds (1862)
Publisher: Juan Llorens (Spanish, active Barcelona, c. 1855–70)
Met collection:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/357884
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/359064
#AnimalsInArt #BirdsinArt

Title: Broadside with images of 36 birds
Publisher: Juan Llorens (Spanish, active Barcelona, ca. 1855–70)
Date: 1860
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 17 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (43.8 x 31.1 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978
Accession Number: 1978.643.22(1)

Title: Broadside with 36 images of quadrupeds (animals)
Publisher: Juan Llorens (Spanish, active Barcelona, ca. 1855–70)
Date: 1862
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 17 5/16 x 13 1/8 in. (44 x 33.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978
Accession Number: 1978.643.25(3)

Robert Morley (British, 1857-1941)
The Literary Critics, 1888
oil on panel, 25 x 30 in (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
via Christies https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6062523
ID: Ariel Toucan, a subspecies of the Channel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos vitellinus ariel)
#BirdsInArt

oil painting of three toucans on a rail overlooking a desk with open books, papers, quill pens, etc.

#WomenArtists #WomenInScience
#HerNaturalHistory #ArtHerstory #BirdsInArt

The remarkable Ellis Rowan was born #OTD (30 Jul 1848 – 4 Oct 1922). #DTK she traveled to New Guinea in 1916-7 (when she was almost 70!) and with help from Indigenous Papuans was able to find and paint most of the known species of Birds of Paradise?
See the collection here via the National Library of Australia:
https://nla.gov.au/whats/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/birds-paradise-ellis-rowan-new-guinea

Spondylus shell pendant
Chimú, 900-1470 CE
Shell & turquoise
Dumbarton Oaks display
“According to 16th c. documents, Spondylus shell was considered more valuable than gold or silver in the pre-Columbian Andes. Found in the warm waters off the coast of Ecuador, the bivalve was closely associated with concepts of fertility.”
“This pendant was crafted from S. princeps valve with inlays of S. calcifer and turquoise to create a design of coastal birds devouring their prey.”
#BirdsInArt #IndigenousArt

stitched photo of the shell pendant and its label: “Shell Pendant Chimú, 900-1470 CE Shell and turquoise PC.B.433 According to sixteenth century documents, Spondylus shell was considered more valuable than gold or silver in the pre-Columbian Andes. Found in the warm waters off the coast of Ecuador, the bivalve was closely associated with concepts of fertility. Whole shells were placed in burials and agricultural fields, and skilled artists cut and polished shell to create ornaments and beads. This pendant was crafted from a Spondylus princeps valve with inlays of Spondylus calcifer and turquoise to create a design of coastal birds devouring their prey.”

#BirdsInArt #ContemporaryArt

Sarah Conti’s Expressive Ceramic Birds Migrate Through Social and Environmental Issues https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/07/sarah-conti-ceramic-birds/ via @colossal

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ICYMI: #Community #BirdsinArt Woodson Art Museum selects 2023 “Birds in Art” artworks https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/07/04/woodson-art-museum-selects-2023-birds-in-art-artworks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Joseph Stella (Italian-American, 1877-1946)
The #Peacock, 1919
Pastel on paper
Norton Museum of Art- on loan to Brandywine Museum of Art for “Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature” exhibition
#birdsinart

photo of the painting in gold frame on display at museum

label: The Peacock, 1919 Pastel on paper Norton Museum of Art. Purchase, Friends of American Art, 2022.32 Stella incorporated both plants and animals into his work by the mid-1910s, and the rich, fluid medium of pastel became an early favorite of his for exploring nature-based fantasy. In this lyrical composition, a peacock, with its trademark fan of feathers, is shown from behind, revealing the onion shape of its lower tail feathers. The bird is flanked on either side by waterbirds and framed by an unusual combination of reedy bushes and cactus-like plants. Stella would have encountered peacocks at the Bronx Zoo, not far from the New York Botanical Garden. [photo] Indian peacock in front of the Aquatic Birds House at the Bronx Zoo, ca. 1911. © Wildlife Conservation Society. Reproduced by permission of the WCS Archives.

For #WorldRainforestDay + #PollinatorWeek: #Hummingbird & Trumpet Flower, giant LEGO art by Sean Kenney from his 2019 show at Liberty Science Center.
“FUN FACT: This sculpture is made using 35,508 #LEGO bricks!”
#birdsinart #contemporaryart

photo of the sculpture view 1 hovering male ruby-throated hummingbird (green/red/white/black) sipping nectar from orange trumpet flowers

sign photo #1 “HUMMINGBIRD & TRUMPET FLOWER (Archilochus colubris) Hummingbirds' wing speeds range from 13 to 80 beats per second. They can hover in mid-air, and they are the only birds that can fly in reverse. The long tubes of trumpet flowers force the hummingbirds to contact pollen as they seek nectar. With every visit to feed, hummingbirds propagate the growth of more flowers. Think Like an Artist "I love creating sculptures that look like they defy gravity. This ruby-throated hummingbird hovers in the air as it feeds, and symbolizes harmony, persistence, and the ability to step back and look at the big picture-all skills that are also important to being an artist!" -Sean Kenney”

sign photo #2 “Think Like an Engineer ANIMALS AND ENGINEERING If you love animals and engineering, many jobs are aligned with your passion. Pet care is a booming field for engineers. Engineers are employed at zoos to design exhibits for animals that keep them happy and safe while also viewable for zoo guests. Engineers work in government agencies monitoring environmental regulations and disease control, or in education, animal breeding, and equipment manufacturing. FUN FACT This sculpture is made using 35,508 LEGO bricks!”

For #FabricFriday: “Strawberry Thief”
William Morris (British, 1834-1896) for Merton Abbey Works (British, founded 1881)
design registered 1883, printed 1917-23
cotton, indigo discharged and block-printed
on display at the Met
#birdsinart

image description: fabric panel mounted behind glass on display at museum: repeating tiled pattern of birds, florals, and strawberries label: “WILLIAM MORRIS British, 1834-1896 MERTON ABBEY WORKS British, founded 1881 STRAWBERRY THIEF Design registered 1883, printed 1917-23 Cotton, indigo discharged and block-printed Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923 (23.163.11) A donation of funds in 1923 enabled the Museum to systematically collect examples of contemporary design for the first time. Curator Joseph Breck traveled the world purchasing works in all media, including twenty-five lengths of textiles and wallpaper designed by the firm Morris & Company. Two of these innovatively designed and immaculately printed fabrics were included in Frances Morris's 1927 exhibition Painted and Printed Fabrics.”

For #NationalPigeonDay:
Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon *Prachtwerk* (1906) via @publicdomainrev https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/schachtzabel-pigeons
#birdsinart

For #WorldParrotDay: #Majolica #cockatoos! Sometimes given natural colors, sometimes not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
More on the blog: https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2023/05/31/animal-art-of-the-day-for-world-parrot-day-two-majolica-cockatoos/
#birdsinart

1. Cockatoo Jug, attributed to Shorter & Boulton, c. 1880s. Walters Art Museum

Cockatoo Vase, Mintons Ltd., designed c. 1874, this piece 1910. Walters Art Museum

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Need a lift this morning? Check out this lovely Folger Library post about the magpie, the latest entry in Missy Dunaway's ongoing #BirdsOfShakespeare project: https://folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/birds-of-shakespeare-magpie/ #Shakespeare #birds #birding #BirdsInArt #ornithology #corvids

#birdsinart #naturalhistoryart #sciart

Edward Lear was born (12 May 1812 - 29 Jan 1888). His gorgeous #parrot paintings are exceptional not just for their scientific accuracy and vivid color, but for their infusion of individual personality, a result of him making a point of sketching living #birds whenever possible.

Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots; Macrocercus Aracanga (Red and Yellow Macaw), 1832 [now Ara macao = Scarlet Macaw] https://tinyurl.com/4hz6ztzm

"This is a book illustration. It was created by Edward Lear and published by Edward Lear. It is dated 1832. Its medium is chromolithograph on paper. It is a part of the Smithsonian Libraries department. Its dimensions are H x W: 56 × 37 cm (22 1/16 × 14 9/16 in.)."
(color illustration of a Scarlet Macaw, perched, backside view but head turned around towards viewer)

For #Woodensday:
Louis Schanker (NYC, 1903-1981)
#Owl, 1937
applewood carving
Smithsonian American Art Museum collection
#birds #birdsinart #AmericanArt

photo of wooden owl carving on white pedestal on display at museum Gallery label text: “Owl 1937 applewood Louis Schanker born New York City 1903-died New York City 1981 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost 1986.92.81”

2:
Kutani: Dish with Roosters Under
Cherry Tree by Kutani Shozo (1816-1883), #Japan, c. 1876
Porcelain, overglaze enamel, gilding
Walters Art Museum Arts Across Asia exhibition
#InternationalRespectForChickensDay 🐓
#chickens #birds #birdsinart #JapaneseArt

label: “ Kutani: Dish with Roosters Under Cherry Tree Kutani Shozo (1816-1883) Japan, ca. 1876 Porcelain, overglaze enamel, gilding By the second half of the 19th century, Kutani ceramics, such as this dish, began to be exported. The Kutani style of this period is marked by a heavy reliance on red and the use of gold, an opulent effect that undoubtedly appealed to foreign tastes. Acquired by William T. Walters, 1876 (2), acc. no. 49.1308”