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Artist: Francis Bird (1667 - 1731)
Nationality: British
Movement: Baroque
Media: Sculpture
Influences:

Biography:
English sculptor, Francis Bird first trained in Flanders before visiting Rome. He worked in a Baroque style. Bird’s most recognized work is the Conversion of St. Paul located in St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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John Smibert - Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis 1729 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Francis Chantrey - Francis Homer 1820 marble Ackland Art Museum British
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Robert Wallace Martin - Bird Jar 1889 stoneware Delaware Art Museum
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Whistle (in the shape of a bird) Switzerland, 19th century Pine Overall Length: 15 cm
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Morris Graves - Little Spirit Bird 1953 watercolor on paper Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Joan Miro - Lunar Bird 1944-1946 bronze Hirshhorn Museum Spanish
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Sylvia Shaw Judson - Bird Girl 1938 bronze Telfair Museum of Art American
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Constantin Brancusi - Golden Bird 1919-20 bronze, stone, and w The Art Institute of Chicago Romanian
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Byron Browne - Woman with Bird 1945 tempera on board Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Constantin Brancusi - Young Bird 1928 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Constantin Brancusi - Bird in Space c. 1941 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Constantin Brancusi - Bird in Space 1928 bronze The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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Utagawa (Igusa) Kuniyoshi Bird Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Mu"in Musasvvir, 17th century A White Bird Single page painting for an album Persian Safavid,
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Francis Seymour Haden Portrait of Francis Seymour Haden (Self-Portrait with etching equipment) Etching and drypoint 1862
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Anonymous Ba bird wood with polychrome 30 BC - 150
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Orchard Painter Ba Bird wood with polychrome 30 BC - 150
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Utagawa (Igusa) Kuniyoshi Bird figure Earthenware 300 BC - 300
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Bird effigy vessel Pottery vessel Olmec Early to Middle Formative, 1200- 500 B.C. Central Highlands,
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Alphonse Nichol-Michel Mandevare Bird necklace Shell 200 - 400
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Jean-Simeon Chardin - Lady with a Bird-Organ 1753 oil on canvas The Frick Collection French
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Joan Miro - Yellow Moon Bird n.d. color aquatinit on p Hirshhorn Museum Spanish
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Karel Appel - Parrot Woman With Bird 1963 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum Dutch
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Awa Tsireh - Bird with Red Snake c. 1920-1925 watercolor, ink and Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Jacques-Emile Blanche - Francis Poictevin 1887 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. Francis Bailey 1791 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Ambrose McEvoy - Mrs. Francis Howard c. 1916-1918 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art British
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Ba bird amulet Egyptian Late Period, 664–332 B.C. Egypt Gold Length x width: 4.4 x
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Thomas Sully - Francis Hopkinson 1834 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Giovanni Bellini - St. Francis in the Desert c. 1480 tempera and oil on c The Frick Collection Italian
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John Smibert - Francis Brinley 1729 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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Daniel Huntington - Dr. John W. Francis 1857 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Bernardo Strozzi - St. Francis in Ecstasy c. 1618-20 oil on canvas Philbrook Museum of Art Italian
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Francis J. Rigney Cliffs near Dublin pen and black ink on paper 1906
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Georges Braque - Oiseau Blanc (White Bird) 1962 color etching with a Los Angeles County Museum of Art French
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Georges Braque - Oiseaux des Forets (Bird of the Forests) 1958 lithograph The Hyde Collection French
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Awa Tsireh - Bird with Black Snake c. 1920-1925 watercolor and ink o Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Francis Seymour Haden Twickenham Etching 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden Twickenham Etching 1865
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Francis McComas Navajo Gateway, Arizona watercolor 1914
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Francis McComas Mesa watercolor circa 1909 - 1914
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Francis Seymour Haden [1891 manuscript copy of]: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Francis Seymour Haden (London: Macmillan, 1880) manuscript with text only 1891
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Mrs. Francis Brinley and Her Son Francis, 1729 John Smibert (Scottish, 1688-1751)AmericanOil on canvas; 50
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Camille & Valentine Tapestry fragment bird design 5 - 8th century
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Charles Gwaytihl Jar with two bird heads blackware 1000 - 1400
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Francis Seymour Haden Amstelodamum Etching 1863
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Francis Seymour Haden Nine Barrow Down Drypoint 1877
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Francis Seymour Haden The Cabin Drypoint 1877
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Ludovico Carracci - The Vision of Saint Francis c. 1583-1586 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli - The Ecstacy of Saint Francis c. 1615 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Pieter Cristoffel Wonder - Henry Francis Playter c. 1837 oil on wood panel Cleveland Museum of Art Dutch
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Joseph Whiting Stock - Mary and Francis Wilcox 1845 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Willson Peale - Portrait of Mr. Francis Bailey 1791 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Francis Seymour Haden Twickenham Church Etching 1862
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Abraham Jansz. Van Diepenbeeck - The Last Communion of St Francis of Assisi n.d. oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Vicente Carduco - St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata c. 1610-30 oil on canvas Ackland Art Museum Spanish
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Hugh Barron - Francis Page of Newbury c. 1760 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Francis McComas Frame for "Navajo Gateway, Arizona" watercolor 1914
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Francis McComas Mesa Village watercolor circa 1910 - 1920
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Francis McComas Teroa Houses watercolor circa 1910 - 1920
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Francis Seymour Haden Challow Farm Drypoint 1877
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Francis Seymour Haden The Willows Drypoint 1877
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Francis Seymour Haden The Moat House Etching 1866
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Francis Seymour Haden Study for his Bookplate pen and ink and wash 1880
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Francis Seymour Haden Encombe Woods Etching 1882
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Francis Seymour Haden Wareham Bridge Drypoint 1877
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Francis Seymour Haden Sunset in Ireland Drypoint 1863
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El Greco - St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata c. 1585-90 oil on canvas The Walters Art Museum Greek
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Francis Seymour Haden Railway Encroachment Etching 1864
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Francis Seymour Haden A Brig at Anchor Etching 1870
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Francis Seymour Haden Erith Marshes Etching 1865
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Robert Dighton Bowl with bird and various designs painted earthenware 400 - 1000
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Francis Seymour Haden Railway Encroachment Etching 1864
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Francis Seymour Haden Grim Spain Etching 1877
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Francis Seymour Haden Barbel Fishing Etching 1877
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Francis Seymour Haden Kilgaren Castle Etching 1864
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Francis Seymour Haden Breaking Up of the "Agamemnon" Etching 1870
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Francis Seymour Haden The Moat House Etching 1866
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Francis Seymour Haden Ye Compleat Angler Etching 1877
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Francis Seymour Haden Mytton Hall Drypoint 1859
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Francis Seymour Haden Erith Marshes Etching 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden Battersea Reach Etching 1863
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Peggy Conahan Bird Woodcut 1959
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Max Kahn Sea Bird color lithograph 1959
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Arthur Pond [Bird ] 1736
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Francis Seymour Haden Harlech (a second plate) Mezzotint and etching 1880
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Francis Seymour Haden Study for Sunset on the Thames watercolor and ink 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden Sunset on the Thames Etching and drypoint 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden Little Calais Pier Etching and drypoint 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden Kensington Gardens Small plate 1859
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Francis Seymour Haden A Lancashire River Etching and drypoint 1881
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Francis Seymour Haden Little Calais Pier Etching and drypoint 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden Sunset on the Thames Etching and drypoint 1865
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Francis Seymour Haden Monk at a Fountain Etching 19th - 20th century
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Francis Seymour Haden Grim Spain Etching 19th - 20th century
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Francis Seymour Haden Bark Refitting Etching 19th - 20th century
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Francis Seymour Haden Windmill Hill (#2) Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Francis Seymour Haden Little Boat House Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Francis Seymour Haden The Two Asses Etching 19th - 20th century
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Joan Miro - Femmes, oiseau, etoiles (Women, Bird, Stars) 1942 oil on paper mounted Des Moines Art Center Spanish

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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High Desert Museum: Bird Sculpture by Daniel McQuestion
The sculpture, a Prairie Falcon, is on a long-term loan for the Raptors of the Desert Sky Exhibit. This new exhibit, that includes live Hawks, Eagles, Falcons and Owls opens on July 7, 2001. ...

Irish Museum of Modern Art: Leon Golub: Paintings 1950 - 2000
His early work used primitive, generic imagery to explore the human condition, but his later work became more direct and political with subjects ranging from the Vietnam War to racism and r...

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum: Birds in Art: Lifts Off in Annual Salute to All Things Avian
This year the answer can be found in 124 different works created by artists who explore the world of birds as a rich mother lode for satisfying their imagination and observational skills. They investigate color and form, shape and pattern, realism...

National Gallery: Light
The first section, Symbolic Light, contains works in which light takes on a metaphorical meaning, such as the Gallery’s 'Adoration of the Shepherds' by Rembrandt and the rarely seen 'After the Deluge; the Forty-First Day' by G. F. Watts (Guildfor...

San Diego Museum of Art: Cerca Series: Helen Altman
Four works from Altman's latest series of moving blankets demonstrate her ability to capture the vulnerability of common creatures in larger-than-life reproductions of isolated animals. Altman's thermal-painted canvases sewn into moving blankets u...

San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: Brian Prescott: Photographs from A Bird's Eye View
Prescott has been to five continents to see more than 1,500 species of birds, and he has photographed more than 1,000 of them. He has traveled to the four corners of North America, and into the Yukon and Northwest Territory of Canada. He has visit...

Index - Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation: Henrik Hakansson: Comments on Spring
Henrik Håkansson’s film, Nightingale From Dusk Till Dawn (2003) portrays the nightingale, a bird that according to popular legend is as easy to hear as it is hard to see. However, by filming the bird at night with a simple, hand-held camera includ...

Platform China: Trap – Wang Wei’s Installation Exhibition
Wang Wei’s Installation “Trap” carries on the artist’s exploration of physical and metaphysical architecture. In this new work Wang Wei reproduces a colossal and intricate jungle combining a blown up wooden bird trap with strategically placed scaf...

Photographer's Gallery: Jean-Luc Mylayne
Mylayne's work bears little relation to the images of wildlife photographers, although he has, by necessity, a deep knowledge of ornithology. He does not pursue his prey with a telephoto lens, and is not searching for the exotic or the unu...

Te Papa: ST@RT_UP
The exhibition includes the world premiere of the major new work by one of the most important new media artists of our time - American Bill Seaman. Hybrid Invention Generator is an interactive video work where visitors will be able to select kn...

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art: STRANGERS and PARADISE: Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye, Nasrin Tabatabai, Gediminas Urbonas
Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye Works 1991-2000 The exhibition of the works by Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye (Nigeria - UK) presents for the first time a large selection of his photo- and videoworks...

MICHAEL C.CARLOS MUSEUM: Karel Appel: Form Becomes Vibration
In Appel s 1970s work he continued to use his favored childlike motifs masks, faces, animals but he adopted a new manner of expression using thick parallel strokes of vivid, con...

Beijing Jialuan Art House / Changqing Art Fund: Call for Artists: BIRD 2005 International Art Award at Beijing Natural Culture Center
Among the more than 9000 varieties of birds that populate the earth, 1329, nearly 1/8 of total species exist in China. China has one of the world's largest bird populations and a lot of endangered bird species are peculiar to China. However, with ...

Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery: Joe Diebes: Premonitions
Striking visual and conceptual cues anchor the exhibition, while sound animates the space from all directions. In Aviary, empty bird cages communicate throughout the gallery in otherworldly tones created from digitally altered bird calls. sotto vo...

Thavibu Gallery: Ideals and Imagination: Work by Netikorn Chinyo
The power of the artist's mind and imagination, combined with his rich experiences is used to create paintings, mostly in black and white and with gold leaf, related to emotions and traditions. He has participated in numerous art shows in Bangko...

Engel Gallery: 2000 - A Glance Towards the Next Millennium
The works tell us not only of how each artist views the cultural, social and political aspects, but of their specific point of view - whether optimistic or pessimistic - as to what the next century or millennium holds in sto...

Agora Gallery: Abstract Perspectives: Featuring Paintings by Adrien Asselin
Asselin considers himself a simple seismograph, a witness to contemporary events, an interpreter of a life underlying life, where art is defined with each moment, each of which breathes into him a new inspiration. Adrien Asselin has shown in...

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Johannes Larsen and Bruno Liljefors: Life in Nature
Both Johannes Larsen and Bruno Liljefors were hunters and outdoorsmen, and they regarded man as a constituent element of nature. Unlike their predecessors at the Academy, they portrayed nature without any religious significance or moral attitude. ...

Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: SELF: Contemporary Indian Video Art
Pijnappel states, " Their search is a fundamental self – questioning. How to live with traditional cultural values? How to liberate yourself as a woman? How to face ongoing ethnic problems? How to position yourself? Theirs is a search for a new...

Orlando Museum of Art: Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Later in the century, other artists such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas ...

Bartley Nees Gallery: Fiona Pardington: Fugitive Beings
Yet this is not simply an anthropomorphic exercise, humanising through a project of portraiture. Rather we see an essence abstracted. Employing the discipline of the photographic still life, which has long been a feature of her practice, Pardingto...

Joan Miro Foundation: Sunflower
This idea of transformation is fundamental to his entire work, and the fact of converting a work of art – traditionally an aesthetic object destined only to be looked at – into an inhabitable object with a specific function reveals his capacity fo...

National Gallery of Canada: Close-Ups: Prints and Drawings by PUDLO PUDLAT
Pudlo Pudlat (1916-1992) used drawing as a means of thinking on paper. Those thoughts frequently explored the themes of architecture, technology and transportation as they related to the changing North. However, even at the earliest stages of ...

Bartley Nees Gallery: Sean Kerr: New Media
In addition to this new show at the Bartley Nees Gallery, Seans work is on show with other leading artists from around the world in the new ST@RT UP exhibition at Te Papa where he has deconstructed Don Binneys classic frigate bird painting to crea...

Franklin H Williams Caribbean Cultural Center: Ancestors & Orishas: Glass & Mixed Media Sculptures Tracing African Roots by David Medina
David’s work includes references to African masked costumes like Nigerian egungun, Dominican diablo cojuelos, science fiction, and pioneering educational shows like Sesame Street with a special fondness for the pop icon Big Bird. “Although the rel...

Sasol Art Museum, University of Stellenbosch: The Animal in Art
Items from the Hugh Solomon collection that highlight some of the zoological expeditions undertaken between 1655 and 1949 can be viewed in the Africana Room. Similarly the journals of early travellers, e.g. Kolbe, Le Valiant, William Paterson and...

US Art Gallery: Keith Dietrich: Horizons of Babel
The site of the project is located on a semicircle between Cape Columbine on the West Coast of the Cape, and Cape Agulhas, with the centre falling on the hill Babelonstoring in the vicinity of Paarl / Franschhoek / Stellenbosch. Seven co-ordinate...

Oakville Galleries: Peter MacCallum: Larus Delawarensis
The subject of Peter MacCallum’s exhibition at Oakville Galleries is a series of photographs documenting the Ring-billed Gull, or Larus Delawarensis, a common, familiar, and often ignored bird species. Rather than see the birds as garbage-eating p...

Gallery 1114, a contemporary artists cooperative: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE WIRRAL
The Gallery will also be showing the dolls of California artist, Sara Austin. Austin's dolls, have shown in museums and galleries across the United States. She has been published in several magazines, and has taught doll-making for several years. ...

San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: The Duck Stamp Competition
Public awareness that waterfowl populations were threatened led Congress to enact the Migratory Bird Conservation Act in 1929. This law was largely symbolic, since it contained no fu...

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