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#BookRecommendation for #AudubonDay:

Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America (2012)

#animals in art #animal holiday #birds in art #19th century art #birds #bird #waterolor #painting #book recommendation #Audubon #Audubon Day #John James Audubon #ornithology #natural history art #scientific illustration #Amazon Associates

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New #BookRecommendation for #AudubonDay:

Audubon as Artist: A New Look at The Birds of America (just released April 2024)

#animals in art #animal holiday #birds in art #19th century art #bird #birds #ornithology #natural history art #scienitific illustration #Audubon #John James Audubon #book recommendation #new books #Amazon Associates #Audubon Day

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ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: Today is Both #AudubonDay and #InternationalFlamingoDay, So Here Is Audubon’s Flamingo!

#animals in art #animal holiday #19th century art #Audubon Day #International Flamingo Day #flamingo #American Flamingo #Audubon #The Birds of America #birds in art #book plate #blog post

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For #InternationalFlamingoDay #FlamingoFriday 🦩:

Truus Nienhuis (Dutch, 1929-2019) Tile tableau, painted with #flamingos in a water landscape with irises, c. 1900 Earthenware, h 95.5cm × w 50.0 cm Rijksmuseum BK-1977-247

#animals in art #animal holiday #european art #birds in art #19th century art #bird #birds #tilework #ceramics #earthenware #flamingo #flamingos #International Flamingo Day #Rijksmuseum #Art Nouveau #Dutch art #Truus Nienhuis

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For #InternationalFlamingoDay #FlamingoFriday 🦩:

Jessie Arms Botke (American, 1883-1971)

Flamingos, c. 1930

Woodcut in colors on Japan paper, 22 1/4 x 17 1/8in (54 x 43.5cm)

🆔 American/Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)

#animals in art #animal holiday #20th century art #birds in art #bird #birds #illustration #woodcut #print #flamingo #flamingos #American Flamingo #Caribbean Flamingo #International Flamingo Day #women artists #1930s

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#BookRecommendation for #InternationalFlamingoDay 🦩:

#animals in art #animal holiday #birds in art #bird #birds #flamingo #ornithology #International Flamingo Day #Amazon Associates #book recommendation

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Belated #BookRecommendation for #WorldPenguinDay 🐧:

#animals in art #animal holiday #birds in art #bird #birds #penguin #penguins #World Penguin Day #ornithology #Amazon Associates #Book Recommendation

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Reblogging for #AudubonDay

Today is #AudubonDay, commemorating pioneering naturalist and artist John James Audubon who was born #OTD (26 April 1785 - 27 January 1851). I put together this overview of the 5 now extinct and 3 other possibly extinct birds whose images are recorded in The Birds of America for the blog:

Plate 26: Carolina Parrot, 1827 (Carolina Parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis) Plate 62: Passenger Pigeon, 1829 (Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius) Plate 66: Ivory-billed Woodpecker, 1829 (Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Campephilus principalis) Plate: 185: Bachman’s Warbler, 1834 Bachman’s Warbler, Vermivora bachmanii) Plate 186: Pinnated Grous, 1834 (Heath Hen, Tympanuchus cupido cupido) Plate 208: Esquimaux Curlew, 1834 (Eskimo Curlew, Numenius borealis) Plate 332: Pied Duck, 1836 (Labrador Duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius) Plate 341: Great Auk, 1836 (Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis)

All plate images courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove, Montgomery County Audubon Collection, and Zebra Publishing. The entire digitized collection is available for viewing and downloading here.

#audubon day #audubon #john james audubon #otd #birds in art #blog post

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Reblogging for #AudubonDay + #InternationalFlamingoDay 🦩

For #AudubonDay + #InternationalFlamingoDay:

Robert Havell Jr. (engraver) after John James Audubon (artist) American Flamingo, 1838: The Birds of America, Plate 431 hand-colored engraving and aquatint on Whatman wove paper image: 87.63 × 58.58 cm (34 1/2 × 23 1/16 in.) plate: 97 x 65 cm (38 3/16 x 25 9/16 in.) sheet: 101.3 x 68.3 cm (39 7/8 x 26 7/8 in.) National Gallery of Art DC collection (1945.8.431)

Audubon insisted on illustrating every bird in The Birds of America life-size, including this one, but even using the largest paper available (the "double elephant folio") he still had to cheat the pose a bit to make it fit, swooping the neck down in a U-shape.

#audubon day #international flamingo day #birds in art #flamingo friday

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arthistoryanimalia · 16 hours

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Reblogging for #InternationalFlamingoDay 🦩

For #InternationalFlamingoDay here's a fun Art Nouveau A-Z alphabet fashioned out of flamingos!

Flamingo Alphabet, typography designed by Étienne Mulier and published in Lettres et Enseignes Art Nouveau (Paris, 1901).

#international flamingo day #birds in art #flamingo friday

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Reblogging for #InternationalFlamingoDay 🦩

For #InternationalFlamingoDay:

Flamingo in the Maon Synagogue tile floor mosaic, located near Nirim, Israel. Byzantine, 5th-6th century.

The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the largest & most widespread of the world's 6 species and the only one native to the region.

[image description: closeup of the flamingo on the floor of the Maon Synagogue, in a Byzantine-era tile mosaic; depicted in side profile with head bent down surrounded by circular ornamenal frame]

#international flamingo day #flamingo friday #birds in art

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arthistoryanimalia · 16 hours

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Reblogging for #InternationalFlamingoDay 🦩

#FlamingoFriday: South Africa has 2 native flamingo species, the Greater Flamingo & Lesser Flamingo; both appear in works by South African expressionist artist Maggie Laubser (1886-1973):

1. Flamingos on the beach, n.d.

2. Flaminke en seilbootjie, 1932

3. Uitsig met boot en flaminke, n.d.

4. Landscape with houses, figure, boats and birds, n.d.

(all works oil on board, likely c.1930s)

#flamingo friday #international flamingo day #birds in art

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Reblogging for #InternationalFlamingoDay 🦩

#FlamingoFriday:

Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956) 1. Les flamands, 1906, oil on canvas, 32.8x40.6cm 2. Le flamant rose et le voilier, 1905-6, oil on canvas, 66x91.4cm 3. Les Ibis, 1907, oil on canvas, 54x73cm 4. Paysage colore aux oiseaux aquatique, 1907, oil on canvas, 65x92cm https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-metzinger

#flamingo friday #international flamingo day #birds in art

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For #WorldPenguinDay 🐧:

Henry Stacey Marks (British, 1829-1898)

Dominicans in Feathers, 1880–87

oil on canvas

H 62 cm (24.4 in) x W 185.5 cm (73 in)

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK)

🆔 Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)

“The title compares the black and white plumage of the penguins to the black and white robes of Dominican monks. It was intended to be both gently comic and more bitingly satirical. Marks was noted for both his humourous subjects and his paintings of birds. In his autobiography he notes that birds made better models that humans, since they were less conceited, less greedy and less boring.”