#bird painters

[uwmspeccoll]

Feathursday Chaffinches

The Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is among the top five most numerous birds in Great Britain, and among the most widespread species in the finch family, breeding through most of Europe and into Siberia. This image is from of a painting by the British bird artist Terance James Bond as reproduced in our folio volume Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond, published in Cambridge, England, by the Lutterworth Press in 1988. Of chaffinches, Bond writes that the species' preference for feeding on the split and discarded grain in agricultural environments:

. . . is without a doubt the origin of the bird's common name, Chaff-Finch. Interestingly this species' scientific name also provides a clue to another of the Chaffinch's characteristics. A literal translation of the name Fringilla coelebs is bachelor finch: throughout Europe during the winter, Chaffinches form large segregated flocks of predominantly one sex. . . .

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[z13lovebot]

Go fish

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jamie Wyeth

Envy -The Seven Deadly Sins

2005

[yeoldenews]

(source: The Klamath Falls (OR) Evening Herald, December 10, 1930.)

[collectionstilllife]

Adrien Moreau (French, 1843-1906) • Large Still Life with Parrot • 1873

[frankietankbaker]

Here's a painting I recently did. This one's for my old man

[liturgical-agenda]

Swans, 1859 by Ferdinand von Wright

[pintoras]

Helene Tüpke-Grande (Polish, 1871-1946): [No title] (via Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus)

[ahit-oc-corner]

Thank you @harlowehearse for this idea and @chocowhomps as well for the continuation for this >:] Lurker - @chocowhomps

[sai-aeko]

Bird on Branch Watching Spider

Watanabe Seitei

ca. 1887

Japanese artist painter

[o-sharkpop-o]

that fuckin bird that i hate

[uwmspeccoll]

A Falco Feathursday

This Feathursday we showcase three of the smallest falcons in Europe and America: the Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo), Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), and American Kestrel (Falco sparverius). All are in the genus Falco, and all occupy a similar niche within the falcon genus, although the Hobby is more falconesque in its hunting behavior. The American Kestrel, however, may not be a true kestrel, but seems more closely related to other North American falcons.

These paintings are by the British bird artist Terance James Bond and are reproduced in our folio volume Birds, The Paintings of Terance James Bond, published in Cambridge, England, by the Lutterworth Press in 1988. Of his painting of the American Kestrel, Bond writes:

The species . . . can be found in parkland, farmland, and the margins of towns and villages [and cities!]. To hint at this association with modern man I have chosen to illustrate my male bird against a setting of sawn logs. This I feel works very well, the firewood is a perfectly natural element but the presence of civilised man is suggested through the obviously unnatural arrangement of the timber. The bird could be sunning itself in somebody's farmyard or rural garden and has taken advantage of the perching point whilst it sits and waits for the arrival of a potential snack.

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[solcattus]

Great White Herons, 1923

By Frank Weston Benson

[the-cricket-chirps]

Vincent van Gogh

Kingfisher by the Waterside

Paris, July-August 1887

[marejadilla]

Fatima Ronquillo, “Together”, oil on panel. Self-taught painter. Philippines,1976. Emigrated as a child to the United States in 1987 where her family settled in San Antonio, Texas.

[collectionstilllife]

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Austrian,1793-1865) • Fruit still life with an Amazon parrot • 1824