Parrots In Art

Artist Laurel Roth Hope takes a unique approach to commemorating lost avian species, by designing and crocheting outfits that represent extinct birds, but are sized to fit a common city pigeon.

Seychelles Parakeet

Great Auk

Passenger Pigeon

Guadalupe Caracara

Carolina Parakeet

Dodo

Bachman's Warbler

Heath Hens

Cuban Red Macaw

Ivory Billed Woodpecker

Courtship

Cast Cockatoo-form Inkwell

19th c., probably English

Patinated form with hinged head & polished beak; H 6 in.

Tian Shiguang, 1916-1999

Johanna Hildebrandt (Australia, b.1950)

Dolphins at Play, 1994

Paul Jouve (France, 1878-1973)

Perroquet, c.1935

Oil on mounted paper w/ oval support, H 93 x W 65 cm

Emile Gallé (France, 1846-1904)

Parrot Cameo Glass Vase, c.1900

H 21 in. (53.3 cm)

🆔 Ring-Necked Parakeet (Psittacula krameri)

William Patrick Roberts (UK, 1895–1980)

The Cockatoos, 1958

Oil on canvas, 813 x 508 mm

Elizabeth Norton (USA, 1887-1985)

Blue Macaw, 1928

Color woodcut on tissue-thin Japan paper, 245x130 mm / 9⅝x5⅛ in.

Red Macaw, 1928

Color woodcut on tissue-thin Japan paper, 243x130 mm / 9½x5⅛ in.

Via Swann Galleries

Bonus #TwoForTuesday :

Elizabeth Norton (USA, 1887-1985) Two Parrots (Cockatoos), 1922

Woodblock print, H 6.5 x W 4.5 in.

Pretty poster! 🥰

Maxwell Ashby Armfield (UK, 1881-1972)

GO TO KEW, 1915

Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd.

Lithograph in colours, backed on linen; 29½ x 19½in. (75 x 49cm.)

“A rare Soviet Porcelain Figure of a Lady with a Parrot (Cockatoo),” 1922

The State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, USSR, after a model by Natalia Danko & Vasily Kuznetsov

H 8 1⁄4 in. (21 cm)

Dressing gown (Saut de lit). Engraving by Gerda Wegener (Denmark, 1886-1940), Paris, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 20 July 1914 (no. 78). Chester Beatty Library WEp 0958