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#Caturday 🐱:

Enni Id (Finland, 1904-1992)

Kissat (Cats), 1976

Oil painting, 60x75 cm

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#FishFriday 🐟:

“Ceramic bottles modeled and painted in the form of #parrotfish. Moche style, Peru.” [Moche culture c.100-800CE]

On display at AMNH [B/3663, 41.2/7779]

🆔 The 2nd vessel with the bump on the head likely represents the appropriately named Bumphead Parrotfish (Scarus perrico)!

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Resharing for #NationalPetDay

#BookRecommendations for #NationalPetDay :

Artists and Their Cats

Medieval Pets

Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life

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#NarwhalDay :

Veronica Manilak (Inuit, Rankin Inlet, b.1935)

Embroidered Wall Hanging Depicting Sedna Atop A #Narwhal, n.d. (sold 2015)

15 X 13 In. (38.1 X 33 cm)

https://www.maynardsfineart.com/auction-lot/veronica-manilak-rankin-inlet-embroidered-wall_63240BF959

(Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the sea and its creatures.)

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Resharing for #NarwhalDay

#BookRecommendation for NarwhalDay :

Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend (2017)

Bonus: I saw the 2019 NMNH exhibition the #narwhal book is based on, and found a few photos of the #Inuit artworks on display:

1. Carved Narwhal Figure

Canada, mid-20th c.

Soapstone, ivory

2. Narwhal Composition sculpture

Kakee Ningeeochiak

Cape Dorset, Canada, n.d.

Soapstone & caribou antler

3. Allangua (Narwhal)

Tim Pitsiulak

Cape Dorset, Canada, 2016

Reproduction of Lithograph

4. A Woman Who Became a Narwhal

Germaine Arnaktauyok

Iqaluit, Canada, 1993

Etching & aquatint

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Resharing for #NarwhalDay

Happy #NarwhalDay!

A Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) tusk is the upper left canine tooth that grows through the lip. Sometimes, the right one does the same, resulting in a 2-tusked individual, as illustrated by English naturalist George Shaw (1751 – 1813):

George Shaw's The British Miscellany (1806)

George Shaw's Zoological Lectures (1809)

Bonus: Found a photo I took of a real double-tusked #narwhal skull that was on display at the Smithsonian NMNH :

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For #FrogFriday, one of the coolest #Nazca ceramics I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot LOL)…so many funky froggos! 🐸🐸🐸

“Double spout bottle with painted #frogs. Late Nasca. Stylization and vessel form reflect the period.”

[Nazca culture, Peru, c.1-750CE; Late Nazca, Phases 6-7, c.500-750CE)

On display at AMNH 41.1/9012

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Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)

The Peale Family, 1773-1809

Oil on canvas

On display at The New York Historical “Pets in the City” show [1867.298]

“n the foreground of Charles Willson Peale's family portrait is their beloved pet dog Argus, which the artist added around 1808, replacing an inscription alluding to family unity. Probably using a study from life, Peale depicted Argus in profile as a celebration of loyalty on which the family is founded.

The family may have had at least two dogs named Argus. In his journal of 1778, Peale relates that a canine, later named Argus, followed him from Wilmington, Delaware, to Philadelphia. Perhaps another Argus, known as the ‘museum dog,’ kept watch at Peale's Museum in Baltimore.

Argus's name references Odysseus's hound in Homer's Odyssey, the only one to recognize his returning master after a twenty-year absence, In Greek mythology Argos (the Greek form of the Latin Argus) was a many-eyed, all-seeing giant.”

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Murray Kupferman (1897-2002)

The Pigeon Fancier, c. 1960s

Oil on canvas

On display at The New York Historical “Pets in the City” show [1980.57]

“Pigeons are among New York City's most iconic residents. Many people, especially lonely urbanites, are drawn to them and their hypnotic waddling and cooing.

Sometimes known as rock doves, they are largely harmless and gentle.

Because pigeons are social birds, they often hang out in groups called flocks or kits. Since they are monogamous and mate for life, they tend to stick to familiar friendship groups for safety.”

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Susumu Kamijo (b. 1975)

1. The Beach Lovers, 2020

Archival pigment print

2. The Sinner at Dusk, 2021

Walnut wood & oil paint with matte protective coating

Both on display at The New York Historical “Pets In the City” show

“Brooklyn-based Susumu Kamijo has drawn artistic inspiration from the poodle since 2016, when he began traveling with his partner, who is a dog groomer, to dog grooming competitions: ‘it sparked my interest [in] the form of body, color of hair, and how the hair is sculpted by groomers.’ Beach Lovers is based on photographs from one such competition. The print abstracts the characteristically sculpted form of the species into a play of crisp contour lines and curving shapes. The similarly abstracted sculpture, while not a portrait, captures the spirit of Kamijo's black toy poodle, Kuro. Despite his tiny stature, Kuro aggressively protects the artist from larger dogs and humans who get too close.”

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#TwoForTuesday :

1. “Bowl painted on interior with fish. Early Nasca.” 41.2/7763B

2. “Painted ceramic bowl with a curled fish on interior. Nasca style, Peru.” 41.2/7762b

[Nazca culture, Peru: c.1-750CE]

On display at AMNH NYC

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#TwoForTuesday :

“Double-bodied ceramic whistling bottle. Chimu style, Peru. One half is modeled and painted in the form of a bat, the other half is a stylized spondylus shell.”

[Chimú culture: c.900-1470CE]

On display at @ AMNH NYC [41.2/7436]

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More #TextileTuesday:

“Cotton textile painted with a flounder-like fish.

Chancay style, Peru.”

[Chancay culture: c.1000-1470CE]

On display at American Museum of Natural History

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#TextileTuesday:

“Border fragment of wool with a continuous band of #hummingbirds and fringelike appendages representing beans. Early Nasca [Nazca, Peru, c.1-450 CE]. Pollination of bean plants by birds may be suggested here. Border was formed using a needle-knit stemstitch.”

On display at American Museum of Natural History [41.2/6321]

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#MonochromeMonday :

Hans Thoma (Germany, 1839-1924)

Drawing for the primer: Hedgehog, c.1905

Pen & black ink over pencil on laid paper, laid down on cardboard

103 x 101 mm

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main [SG 2040]

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#MarsupialMonday :

Watercolor studies of “Phascolarctos or Native Bear” (Koala) by James Stuart, c.1831-41.

The State Library of New South Wales Mitchell Library

[Volume 04: Natural history drawings of marsupials, reptiles and rodents, ca. 1831-1841 / by James Stuart / Linnean Society of N.S.W. collection.]

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For #InternationalBeaverDay :

"The Original Beaver Map & Its Legacy"

via Swann Galleries