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Anyone in Chicago for #SCSC2026? I’ll be presenting “Seeing Red: Reconsidering Carpaccio's ‘Symbolic’ Red #Parrot” Saturday morning as part of the “Surfaces That Speak: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Bodies, Animals, and Images across Empires” panel.
#BirdsInArt
Composite screenshot of panel listing from digital program for SCSC 2026 text: “Surfaces That Speak: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Bodies, Animals, and Images across Empires • October 31st • 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM CDT • LaSalle 2 (The Palmer House) 08:30 AM - 08:50 AM CDT Ordinances Regulating Workers in the Taxco, Mexico, Silver Mine 1581 OF Oscar Flores • Abstract 08:50 AM - 09:10 AM CDT Playing with Death: Spanish Visual Poetry in the Funeral Broadsheets for Marie-Louise d'Orléans YH Yelsy Hernandez Zamora • Abstract 09:10 AM - 09:30 AM CDT Seeing Red: Reconsidering Carpaccio's "Symbolic" Red Parrot DM Deniz Martinez • Abstract”
October 31, 2026 at 12:26 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
#TwoForTuesday:
“Carolina Paroquet" porcelain wall hanging
from the American Birds series (1933-1960)
Royal Worcester Porcelain (England), designed by Dorothy Doughty (Italian, 1892-1962)
On display at Reynolda House Museum of American Art
#SECAC2026 #BirdsInArt #Extinct #WomenArtists
photo of the porcelain sculpture hanging on wall: pair of flying Carolina Parakeets (now extinct) “In 1933 the English ceramic manufacturer, Royal Worcester, commissioned a limited series of porcelain birds designed by Dorothy Doughty for the American market. The series, designed between 1933 and 1960, represents significant technical innovations in ceramic production. … The American Birds at Reynolda House were collected by Nancy Susan Reynolds, daughter of R. J. and Katharine Reynolds, in the 1960s.”
October 28, 2026 at 2:43 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
#TwoForTuesday:
Martin Johnson Heade (USA, 1819-1904)
Orchid with Two #Hummingbirds, 1871
Oil on prepared panel
On display at Reynolda House Museum of American Art (1976.2.8)
#SECAC2026 #BirdsInArt
photo of the painting in gold frame on display Closeup of the two hummingbirds male Phaon Comet and Brazilian Fairy gallery sign “Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) Orchid with Two Hummingbirds, 1871 Oil on prepared panel Museum purchase, 1976.2.8 Martin Johnson Heade shared an intense interest in the natural world with other nineteenth-century American artists. He began his career by painting panoramic vistas of salt marshes and marine scenes, but gradually scaled down his vision to intimate, jewel-like canvases such as this one. Heade became gripped by what he called "the hummingbird craze" and traveled to Brazil in order to observe the exotic little birds. In this scene, two hummingbirds, a male Phaon Comet (the green one with red wings) and a Brazilian Fairy, are shown with a brilliant pink Cattleya orchid. They occupy their natural environment, a wet Brazilian jungle, and are framed by gnarled branches and trees entwined with vines against a stormy sky. Humidity is apparent in the saturated coloration and the atmospheric quality of light that pervades the composition. Although he certainly made sketches out of doors, in actuality Heade used specimens in his studio to capture accurately the appearance of his hummingbirds.”
October 28, 2026 at 2:24 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
“The global story of how a century-old Yup’ik mask is illuminating shorebird conservation today in Western Alaska and beyond.”
#BirdsInArt #IndigenousPeoplesDay
www.audubon.org/alaska/news/...
Desperately Seeking Sugg’erpak
The global story of how a century-old Yup’ik mask is illuminating shorebird conservation today in Western Alaska and beyond. Way beyond.
www.audubon.org
October 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Delighted to finally see the new big Blue Hen statue on the UD campus! 😍
The sign is a bit of a bummer though 😥
#BirdsInArt #BlueHens
photo of the new outdoor bronze Blue Hen statue installed on the University of Delaware campus Posted sign: “PLEASE DO NOT CLIMB OR SIT ON THE BLUE HEN STATUE”
September 15, 2026 at 7:08 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Look I know this museum is full of masterpieces but this goofy little bird is honestly my favorite thing here 😛
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
#Bird on a Tree (L'oiseau)
Dinard, Aug 1928
Oil on canvas, 13.75 x 9.5 in (34.9 x 24.1 cm)
Guggenheim Museum NYC (Thannhauser Collection 78.2514.57)
#BirdsInArt
photo of the artwork in thick, dark wood frame hanging on display at museum small painting by Picasso of a black stripey bird with googly eyes and orange “V” beak perched outside on leafy branches, in a pseudo-naïve style Cubist bird I guess…shaped like an origami ninja star LOL
September 14, 2026 at 11:14 PM
margrietgiel.bsky.social
"Baby It's Cold Outside",
olieverf op aquarelpapier,
9.5 x 14.5 cm, 2022
door Gabriel Gressie .
#myspecialart #blueskybirdart #art #art2love #artbsky #apaintingaday
#birdpaintings #kunstdoetietsmetje
#birdsinart #oilpainting
September 14, 2026 at 9:29 AM
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#birdsinart
September 13, 2026 at 7:41 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay
#BirdsInArt
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Sep 8
For #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay:
Bernard Willem Wierink (Dutch, 1856-1939)
Gieren ( #Vultures ), 1919
platecut print, 40.2 h × 21.5 cm w
Rijksmuseum RP-P-1924-380: www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...
#birdsinart
color platecut print, illustration of a group of four vultures
September 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay
#BirdsInArt
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Dec 18
#TwoForTuesday :
Charles John Franklin Coombs (British, 1908–1989)
Egyptian #Vultures, 1966
oil on canvas, H 127 x W 81 cm
Ulster Museum BELUM.N63
artuk.org/discover/art...
#BirdsInArt
oil painting of two Egyptian vultures soaring in front of large golden brown sand dunes with blue sky in background
September 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay
#BirdsInArt
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Sep 8
#InternationalVultureAwarenessDay:
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, & gold on paper
39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in)
Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
The artist Mansur became such a master in painting flora and fauna that he received the title nadir al-'asr, "rare one of the age." Ornithologically accurate, the vultures as revealed by the brush of Mansur are far more than avian specimens. His masterful hand is evident in the subtle gradations of sooty hues and pearly beige and gray shades of the feathers. The sketchy rock suggestive of ground plane and the linear outline of the half-toned rock are not an actual habitat but a plausible setting out of the artist’s imagination.
September 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay
#BirdsInArt
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Mar 2
#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
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.”
September 5, 2026 at 2:50 PM
andygell.bsky.social
The painting birds in watercolour workshop with Tim Gommersall @sunnybankmills.bsky.social was great fun and I learnt a lot. Birds from blobs and the stylised gull exercises had us all laughing. #BirdsinArt
August 31, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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some Autumn feels in this new little drawing
#chickadeeart #pencildrawing #chickadee #autumnart #art #fallart #birdart #birdsinart #chickadees
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Here's my piece in the Spencer Museum's exhibit "Iⁿ’zhúje’waxóbe: Return of the Sacred Red Rock, in the Larry & Barbara Marshall Family Balcony (Lawrence, KS) through Jan. 25, 2026. (Photo by Lisa Grossman.) #kansasartist, #artistLFK, #sacredredrock, #birdsInArt
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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My new scratchboard piece for the Haskell Indian Nations University art auction on Saturday May 3, 5:30pm, 200 McDonald Dr., Lawrence, KS! #artist #scratchboard #cardinals #kansasartist #springart #cardinalart #birdsinart #lfk
April 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
abbefardon.bsky.social
A little colour for this November evening.
Toucan. Acrylic on wallpaper from a few years ago.
#toucan
#birdsinart
#acrylicpainting
#artforyourhome
Painting of a toucan, in profile against large green jungle leaves. Red nasturtium flowers in the foreground.
November 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
abbefardon.bsky.social
Repost of barn owl I painted in acrylic a few years ago. Have a commission for another.
#barnowl #ukbirds #birdsofprey #wildlife #birdsinart #acrylicpainting
Painting of a barn owl in half light with dark brown background.
April 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Loved the expression caught brilliantly by @fraggenstein.bsky.social and have perched this feathery beauty in my budding magnolia tree, here in Derbyshire.
#ukbirds 🪶 #chaffinch
#birdsinart #wildlife
Painting of a male chaffinch perched in a budding magnolia tree, low light.
March 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Thank you to all more than 250 creatives who have exhibited in our art shows. From our first named show in 2013 to this year’s, may all of you be filled with tremendous creativity and success!

Art share with permission. More images & artist names, on our Instagram.

#MonthOfGratitude #BirdsInArt
A round ceramic dish on a stand, showing a Red-bellied Woodpecker. The ceramic is a carved style, in black, white and red. Artist: S. Morrison. A watercolor painting of a nest with two eggs and many viney/ferny leaves around. Artist: L. DiSante A photograph of a male Ruby-throated hummingbird superimposed over texts of many numerical facts about the species. Artists: K. Sultze and J. Hyde A complex quilt of many bright colors and fabric patterns, showing a Blackburnian Warbler in a tropical forest canopy. Artist: M. Lower
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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A little watercolor of an "American Goldfinch" (5.5"x8.5"). I'm looking forward to seeing their bright yellow colors back in my garden!

#birds #Americangoldfich #birdsinart #watercolor #watercolorbird
April 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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More ravens! Because, you can’t have too many ravens…obvs. “Whispers Of A Conspiracy,” oil on linen, 16” x16”.
#ravens #wildlifeart #birdsinart #art #oilpainting
February 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
andygell.bsky.social
The Black Kite or “Tobi” トビ as it is known in Japanese.Woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige. Seen at the Beneath the Great Wave:
Hokusai and Hiroshige exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. #BirdsinArt #Raptors
Print of a Black Kite diving over a Japanese landscape.
July 2, 2026 at 2:54 PM
andygell.bsky.social
My Golden Eagle sculpture now sits on a plinth of Lewisian gneiss. I found the rock on Harris in the #OuterHebrides where I was also fortunate to see two Golden Eagles and a dozen Sea Eagles. #BirdsinArt #raptors
Clay Golden Eagle sculpture with a bronze powder finish sitting on a plinth of gneiss rock.
June 14, 2026 at 3:16 PM
andygell.bsky.social
I had the privilege to visit Jonathan's Studio Open Day today. We chatted about birds,art & aircraft and I got to see his amazing paintings up close. A talented and passionate artist. Check out his work and blog below. #BirdsinArt #birds #swifts
jonathanpomroy.bsky.social Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social · May 21
Swifts- now they really are back!

My Swift 2026 blog continues at

jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com
June 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM