Friday, August 5, 2011

Birds

Sparrows
These are so lovely.   A little disturbing perhaps, but lovely too.  Have a look at the specimen labels, they're aged, the handwriting is beautiful... I noticed one date in particular - 1928! 
Sparrows, label closeup
Tanagers
Look at the colours!  I think there might be a future piece of work inspired by these... 
Tanagers, label closeup

2 comments:

  1. Are these permanently on display?

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  2. Yep, second floor. :) The tanagers in particular are in a drawer so they're easy to miss, but they're there!

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