art_history_animalia, 5 months ago to random

It’s #NationalRobinDay in the UK!
Here are two calendar pages from December 1904 & 1910 by Theo van Hoytema (Dutch, 1863-1917) featuring the European robin (Erithacus rubecula) from Rijksmuseum:
#birdsinart

December calendar page with robin, Theo van Hoytema, 1909 color lithography, h 440mm × w 210mm Title(s) December calendar sheet with robin Robin on frosted branch Calendar 1910 12 lithographs by Th. v. Hoytema (series title) Object type picture calendar sheet Object number RP-P-1914-106 Inscriptions / Brands collector's mark, verso, stamped: Lugt 2228 Description The bird sits among snow-covered branches. A tear line at the top of the sheet.

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to random

#WatercolorWednesday:
Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600-1670)
Still Life with Birds and Fruit, с. 1650
Watercolor with graphite, heightened with lead white on vellum
25.7 x 41.6 cm (10 1/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
on display at “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art
🆔 The 3 smaller birds are European Goldfinches (Carduelis carduelis). The larger bird is a juvenile European Bee-Eater (Merops apiaster).
#BirdsInArt

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to random

#WatercolorWednesday:
Sarah Stone (British, c. 1760-1844)
Blue and Yellow Macaw, c.1789
Watercolor heightened with opaque watercolor & glazes, with black ink border on paper
on display at “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art
#BirdsInArt

gallery sign: “The brilliant blue and gold plumage of this large South American parrot made it especially appealing to European naturalists and explorers, who amassed large specimen collections, some of which became museums. Within this context, Sarah Stone built a career as a painter of birds and animals. As a teenager, Stone was hired by the collector Ashton Lever (1729-1788) to visually document the holdings of his Leverian Museum (now dispersed) in England, which included Indigenous artifacts and animals acquired by British expeditions to the Americas, East Asia, and Australia. Stone's illustrations for the Leverian established her reputation and launched her career as an illustrator and exhibitor at the Royal Academy of London and Society of Artists. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Purchase, with funds from the Marvin Gelber Fund, and the Master Print & Drawings Society of Ontario”

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to random

For #TextileTuesday:
Embroidered Buratto Lace, Italian, 1600s
Linen, silk, metallic thread with gauze weave
on display at “Making Her Mark: A History of #WomenArtists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art

Check out the pretty #parrot! Not identifiable as a real-life species, but its overall shape & coloration suggests an Amazon Parrot (Amazona spp.), which by this time were popping up all over European art.

#BirdsInArt

closeup of the parrot - side profile, perched with right leg raised to mouth with food, green upperparts with red highlights on wings, with yellow underparts and bare parts

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to random

How Marisol Ortega Brings Birds to Life With Her Illustrations https://www.audubon.org/news/how-marisol-ortega-brings-birds-life-her-illustrations
via Audubon Society
#BirdsInArt

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to parrots

#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

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to random

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

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to AncientGreek

#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

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to random

#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 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."

art_history_animalia, 6 months ago to random

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

art_history_animalia, 7 months ago to random

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

side view 1 showing first bird
side view 2 showing 2nd bird
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.

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

#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

#birdsinart #womenartists

Guianan Toucanets, 1928 color linocut 28x24cm
Toucans, 1925-30 color woodcut 20x19cm

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

#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

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

#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

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

#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

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

#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

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

#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

art_history_animalia, 8 months ago to random

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

art_history_animalia, 9 months ago to random

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

art_history_animalia, 9 months ago to shark

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

art_history_animalia, 11 months ago to random

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