Portrait of a sulfur-crested cockatoo perched on a wooden rod with floral wallpaper background (pink flowers, green foliage, blue background; bird’s shadow to right) in the artist’s signature photorealistic style signed and dated lower right editioned lower left Provenance: Private Collection, New Mexico

Tom Palmore (USA, b. 1945)
#Cockatoo, 1980
Color lithograph, 107 / 120
34 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.
www.santafeartauction.com/auction-lot/...
#BirdsInArt #Parrot
🆔 Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)

I will not clip my wings,
I will not chain my soul,
I will not imprison my spirit,
I will not bind my heart.

Painting by Ruhiye Yalgin.
#blueskybirfart #art #art2love #artbsky #apaintingaday
#birdpaintings #kunstdoetietsmetje
#birdsinart #poems

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#BookRecommendation for #InternationalBirdDay 🕊️:
Bird: Exploring the Winged World (2021)
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#BirdsInArt

digital scan of a page from a design book, with multicolor illustrations of a striding ostrich (left) and perching white cockatoo (right) each framed in a rectangular shape "Hisui Sosaku Zuanshu is a collection of creative designs by graphic designer SUGIURA Hisui (1876-1965), who was a pioneer of modern design in Japan." "This is a collection of designs created by graphic designer Hisui Sugiura. It was published in 1926 (Taisho 15) after his studies in Europe. Hisui's design collections, including 'Hisui Flower and Bird Designs' which is listed in the NDL Image Bank, went out of print after the Great Kanto Earthquake. This collection was created to supplement those collections, with Sugiura gradually drawing and accumulating designs. It features new motifs that reflect the results of his studies in Europe, such as bold diagonal lines and compositions that place figures within straight lines."

#TwoForTuesday:
#Ostrich & #Cockatoo by pioneering Japanese graphic designer Hisui Sugiura (杉浦 非水 Sugiura Hisui, 1876-1965) from his design collection Hisui Sosaku Zuanshu, 1926
National Diet Library Japan:
www.ndl.go.jp/en/imagebank...
#JapaneseArt #GraphicDesign #BirdsInArt

A large sewn quilt featuring birds. This will form part of a huge quilt which aims to be as long as the height of Grenfell Tower.

"Do caged birds dream of flying?"

I helped install this wonderful #GrenfellMemorialQuilt for an exhibition opening this weekend at Sunnybank Mills.
#BirdsinArt #Birds

watercolor illustration of a mixed sex flock of mallards in rippling blue water with sandy shores and blue-grey sky in background

Johannes Larsen (Denmark, 1867-1961)
#Ducks, 1895
Pen, ink, brush,watercolor on paper, 243 x 373 mm
Ordrupgaard ordrupgaard.dk/en/udstillin...
#BirdsInArt

Watercolor illustration of a large flock of white storks in a green grassy field with forest area in background under grey skies

#WorldStorkDay :
Wilhelm Kuhnert (German, 1865-1926)
Weiße Störche (White #Storks ), n.d.
Pencil & watercolor, 17.8 x 28 cm
www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/...
#BirdsInArt

Indian Peacock with tail fully spread open, appearing to display at a small European Peacock butterfly resting on the ground in front of it

closeup of the peacock butterfly

For #NationalPeacockDay 🦚 on #WatercolorWednesday:
Archibald Thorburn (Scottish, 1860-1935)
#Peacock and Peacock #Butterfly, 1917
Watercolor, H 87.5 x W 111.5 cm (34.4 x 43.8 in)
🆔 Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) and European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io)
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#BirdsInArt

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.”

English textile designer William Morris was born #OTD (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896).
“Strawberry Thief”
William Morris for Merton Abbey Works
Design registered 1883, printed 1917-23
Cotton, indigo discharged & block-printed
Metropolitan Museum of Art display
#BirdsInArt

tapestry with a mixed flock of birds (including quail, woodpecker, owl, crow, dove, various songbirds) and a pair of rabbits in a forest landscape

#InternationalDayOfForests 🌳🌲:
Martha Mood (USA, 1908-1972)
Forest Families Tapestry, 1972
Wool, 66 x 57 1/2 in. (167.6 x 146 cm)
#WomenArtists #BirdsInArt
www.bonhams.com/auction/2686...

“An antique Japanese late Meiji era decorative enamel over copper plate or charger. The interior of the plate is adorned with a polychrome design of sparrows and frogs in blossoming flowers and plants on the turquoise ground made in the Cloisonne technique. The borders are adorned with polychrome floral and foliage ornaments made in the same technique. The backside is decorated with a foliate scroll ornament made in the Cloisonne technique. Unmarked.”

For both #WorldFrogDay + #WorldSparrowDay today: Cloisonne Enamel Plate (with #Sparrows & #Frogs)
Japan, late Meiji Era (late 19th - early 20th c).
Dia. 12 in.
mta-sts.antiquearena.com/lot/67840?au...
#JapaneseArt #BirdsInArt #FrogFriday

official museum photo of the day object on grey background “The rooster's association with the morning is rooted in its natural behaviour of crowing at dawn, a sound that has been interpreted as a sign of the new day's arrival since ancient times. This porcelain figure of a rooster and a hen on a tree stump was made in Japan at the famous Arita kiln sites in around 1690. It was likely designed for the European market, and intended to be shipped and sold there by the Dutch East India Company.” “porcelain figures, formed in individual moulds, and luted with glaze, with polychrome overglaze enamels, including gold”

For #NationalPoultryDay 🐓🐔
Figure of a cock and hen on a tree stump
Arita kiln-sites, Japan, c.1690 (for
European export market)
Porcelain, overglaze enamels, gold
29.7 x 19.7 x 18.5 cm max
Ashmolean Museum EA1989.10
collections.ashmolean.org/object/368646
#BirdsInArt #Chickens

"This painting depicts two swans gliding gracefully across a moonlit lake, their mirrored reflections forming two heart shapes—one above the water and one shimmering below. You may also notice the delicate heart-shaped lily pads floating nearby, one of them in bloom—a tender symbol of budding love. The cool palette of blues, grays, and whites evokes a sense of calm and stillness, making me feel like time has stopped. It reminds me that love can be simple, and beauty can be still."—Heidi Larson-David, Membership & Engagement Manager Our "Staff Picks" exhibition is on view through May 10, 2026.”

#BlueMonday 💙
William R. Leigh (USA, 1866-1955)
#Swans, 1913
Oil on canvas
JKM Collection @ National Museum of Wildlife Art
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#BirdsInArt

photo of the wooden bowl on display at museum carved in canoe form with an ufir (palm cockatoo) head as the prow

closeup of the ufir (palm cockatoo) prow

photo of label “Asmat artist; West Papua Ndanim (Asmat, active 1961, Omadesep, Faretsj River, West Papua)* Jifoi (bowls) Mid-20th century Wood, paint The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection; Gift of Nelson A Rockefeller and Mrs. Mary C. Rockefeller, 1965 (1978.412.1177, 1199*) Recorded provenance: Michael C. Rockefeller expedition, collected 1961; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1961-65; the MPA, New York, 1965-78 The intricate, curving designs that decorate the surface of ceremonial vessels used for serving sago or preparing pigments are related to those on Asmat shields, paddles, and canoes. Many works, including these jifoi, are deliberately carved in canoe form. They feature fruit-eating birds like the ufir (palm cockatoo as their prows or "heads," emphasizing their potent associations with headhunting. These designs charged the ceremonial vessels' ability to maintain ongoing, living connections with ancestors in the spiritual realm.” * label includes info for a work not shown here

#Woodensday :
Asmat artist(s); Indonesia, West Papua, Erma village
Jifoi (bowl), mid-20th c.
Wood, paint
On display at the Met (1978.412.1177)
#Parrots #BirdsInArt #IndigenousArt #AustralasianArt
ℹ️ ufir (Palm #Cockatoo) head as the prow; fruit-eating birds = headhunting symbolism (see label)

oil painting of a couple of silvereyes

A work-in-progress phone pic of a couple of delightful cuddling silvereye / tauhou (Zosterops lateralis) in an Acer palmatum (Japanese Maple). Still got the detail to do, but this is the big brush work done. Oil on canvas.

#nzbirds #birdsinart #silvereyes #oilpainting #nzartist #NewZealand

"De Eerste Vliegles", olieverf op paneel, 15 x 15 cm door Suzan Visser. P.C.
#myspecialcatart #blueskybirdart #art #art2love #artbsky #apaintingaday
#birdpaintings #kunstdoetietsmetje
#birdsinart #oilpainting #birdsinartofbluesky

Stepping Into the Light: Women Artists and Creative Kinships | Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum March, as Women’s History Month, invites us to reconsider the stories we have inherited and to ask who, historically, has been framed in the foreground and who has been cast in shadow. For many women ...

#WomenArtists with bonus #BirdsInArt (via Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum):
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black, grey, off-white drawing, textile design, pattern of frilly, swirling ostriches

#MonochromeMonday:
Drawing, #Ostrich, 1976
Suzie Zuzek (USA, 1920-2011)
textile design for Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc. for Lilly Pulitzer, Inc.
brush & pen, watercolor, gouache, & ink on paper
H 38.1 × W 27.9 cm (15 × 11 in)
collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/2318...
#WomenArtists #BirdsInArt

#SuperSizedSunday:
Linda Guenste (USA, b.1959)
A Murder of #Crows, n.d.
Oil in linen, w80 x h48 in.
On display at Michener Art Museum
#BirdsInArt #WomenArtists

photo of the painting in thin frame on display at museum

closeup of the bird head (vulture)

gallery sign: “Over and Above, No. 14 1964 Clarence Holbrook Carter (1904-2000) Oil on canvas On loan from the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener 1968. 3.3.1995 When describing his Over and Above series, Carter wrote, "from this strange world of fact and fancy stare back images, both real and unreal, of what perhaps we might be to others, but never to ourselves—the Somebody Else." Carter's work is often associated with magic realism, a naturalistic painterly style that includes elements of strangeness within the work's composition. While Over and Above introduces an unsettling confrontation with a large bird through direct eye contact, the white barrier simultaneously distances us from them. This uncanny interaction with a strange creature blurs the boundary between the human and the animal.”

#SupersizedSunday:
Clarence Holbrook Carter (USA, 1904-2000)
Over and Above, No. 14
1964
Oil on canvas, 75 3/16 x 77 3/16 in. (191 x 196 cm)
On display at Michener Art Museum
#BirdsInArt #Vulture

colorful print depicting the front half of a keel-billed toucan in side profile coming into frame from left in foreground, with a rising/setting sun over aqua water behind a curtain of vertical brown vines in background

#ToucanTuesday:
Ann T. Cooper (USA, 1935-2005)
Wide Awake #Toucan, n.d.
Serigraph, 14" x 18"
www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Wide...
#BirdsInArt #WomenArtists

Indian miniature painting of a white cockatoo in side profile with left leg raised and right leg balanced on its perch, on mint green background with floral vegetation along bottom

White #Cockatoo on a Perch
India, late 18th c.
gouache & gold on paper
painting: 16.6 x 10 cm (6 3/4 by 4 1/4 in.)
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/... #IndianArt #BirdsInArt #Parrot

official gallery photo on white background “A rare pair of Regency bronze candlesticks portraying ormolu standing Ostriches amongst scrolling leaf and flower bronze work. Ormolu sconces and canopy with rose decoration from which hangs cut glass prismatic drops.”

#MetalMonday:
A pair of Regency #Ostrich candlesticks / sconces
English, c.1830
bronze, ormolu, cut glass
www.hamsheregallery.co.uk/stock.php?id...
#BirdsInArt

print, dark blue ink on off-white paper, illustration of a pair of owls perched together in a pine tree numbered (2/20), titled, signed, and dated along bottom margin

#MonochromeMonday #OwlishMonday:
Frank McClure (USA, 1896-1979)
Two #Owls, 1972
Print, ink on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum 1979.98.417 americanart.si.edu/artwork/two-...
#BirdsInArt

official auction photo of the object, quarter turn profile on black background Ceramic tureen in the form of a dark blue peacock

#BlueMonday 💙
“A trompe d’oeil #Peacock ceramic tureen”
Probably French, 19th c.
Ceramic, glazed white and painted dark blue; L 24 cm
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
#BirdsInArt

Painting of a black bird investigating an old chipped pot on the edge of a waterway in a woody landscape

Mildred Anne Butler RWS FRSA RUA (Irish, 1858-1941)
Pot Luck, 1897
Watercolor, 36 x 54 cm (14¼ x 21¼ in.)
www.adams.ie/3123-lot-64-...
#BirdsInArt #WomenArtists

Painting of a small flock of five white ducks, resting together on a bank under foliage

Alexander Koester (German, 1864–1932)
Fünf ruhende weiße Enten (Five resting white #ducks), n.d.
Oil on canvas, 54 x 82 cm
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#BirdsInArt

oil painting in portrait orientation Cubist bird (black and dark blue stripes, red-orange beak, two googly eyes, black legs; body drawn angular, appears to be made of triangles) perched outdoors on leafy branches with abstract sky background signed & dated upper right © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Pablo Picasso (Spain 1881 - France 1973)
#Bird on a Tree
Dinard, Aug. 1928
Oil on canvas, 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (34.9 x 24.1 cm)
Guggenheim Museum NYC 78.2514.57 www.guggenheim.org/artwork/3444
#BirdsInArt

Digital image of a serigraph, 9 Barn Owl faces peeking out of a heart-shaped opening in a red wall with straw pieces sticking out, in Harper's signature "minimal realism" style Put a fancy lace border around these barn owls and you could send them to your sweetie on February 14. “Be mine!” you could say, “I love you with all my hearts!” Or when you’re ready to pop the question: “Let’s owlope.” And on your anniversary: “You’re still as owlluring as ever.” For Flag Day: “I pledge owllegiance.” Then there’s Cowlumbus Day and Owlection Day. And Christmas! “Owlleluia.” Oops, almost forgot Howloween. Maybe we’d better start listing them — owlphabetically. — Charley Harper

#ValentinesDay 💕
Charley Harper, (USA, 1922-2007)
#Vowlentine, 1985
Serigraph Print, Ed. Of 1000
8 x 8 in. (image)
www.charleyharperartstudio.com/vowlentine-s...
#BirdsInArt #Owls

oil painting depicting a crowded flock of 18 different hornbills “Hunt Slonem's paintings are at once vibrant, energetic and colorful, yet also deeply spiritual and contemplative. The artist creates exotic forms with expressive and highly textural brushstrokes that are full of intense color, loosely inspired by artists of the German Expressionism movement. As a child, Slonem first felt a connection to birds. The fascination continued into adulthood; not only does he admire the colorful animals from afar, but he also collects the exotic birds. Slonem utilizes the intense colors of the neo-expressional style that mirrors the interesting worlds in which these animals exist. He describes his work with one word, “Exotica.” Slonem creates beautiful, surprising scenes that offer a calming joy to those who encounter it. From the very beginning, animals and the natural world, most notably birds, have been the central focus of his work. For Slonem, birds signify divinity and transcendence in their ability to leave the realm of earth and its constraints through flight. He sees the ability of birds to fly - to achieve atmospheric height - as a direct metaphor for transcendence from an earthly to a spiritual realm.”

Happy #LoveHornbillsDay!
Hunt Slonem (USA, b.1951)
#Hornbills, 1989
Oil on canvas, 66.25 x 88.25 in.
#BirdsInArt
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