#crittery

Whale

netsuke:

Chokuichi Naokazu -  Demonic Head - boxwood with bone fangs and inlaid eyes of horn and mother-of-pearl - late 19th century, Meiji period

Cluster of Rats - ivory with inlaid eyes - late 19th century

Masakatsu - Cuttlefish (two views) - wood - early 19th century

Kyusai Tetsugen (Japanese, 1879-1938) - Cicada on Pine Bark - ivory - early 20th century

Naito Toyomasa (Japanese, 1773-1856) - Wasp and Hive - wood

Beshimi Mask - lacquer with inlaid eyes - 19th century

Ōhara Mitsuhiro (Japanese, 1810-1875) - Sea Cucumber and Chestnut  ebony and boxwood - 19th century

Sleeping Monkey (4 views) - ivory - c.1930-40

Whale - ivory with inlaid eyes - 2oth century

albinism

Serpent - eccentric flaked obsidian - Teotihuacan - 200-250 CE

Boar’s head - carved amber - Etruscan, c.425 BCE

Joseph Beuys - Sheep - bronze - 1948-49

Toadster - found in Goodwill Store Kenosha, WI

Cat pendant - amethyst - Egypt - Late to Ptolemaic period - 664-30 BCE

Michel Bassompierre - The Honey No.5 - marble

Hippo - faience - 7'' long Egypt - Late Period (Persian Period) 6th-4th Century BCE 

Spider Vessel - steatite, red cinnabar, shell - Chumash - Arroyo Sequit Canyon, Malibu region, California - 16-17th century

Leonora Carrington - Vulture (Dragon) - bronze, ruby

Laurent Verdin Sr. (American, 1909-1991 ) - The White Pelican -  Crooked Bayou Blue (Fala, Louisiana)

Toyomasa Tamba (Japanese, 1773-1856)- Boar netsuke - wood - Late Edo Period - c.1780-1868

Chumash artist - Whale effigy - soapstone and clamshell beads - c.1000-1700

Cicada - calcified jade - 0.7 × 5.8 × 3.2 cm - Eastern Han dynasty - c.25-220 CE

Arthur Grove (English architect and carver) - Rabbit - carved in a Spanish chestnut stall in the chancel - St. Mark's in Brithdir, Gwynedd, Wales - 1895-1898

Snake (from a set of Zodiac figures) - earthenware w white slip and traces of pigment - Chinese - 618-907 CE

Frog amulet (possibly portraying Hequet, goddess of childbirth) - carnelian - Egypt - 1540-1296 BCE 

Hedgehog toy - stone, wood - Iran - 1500 BCE

“Jeep” doll (a character in E.C. Segar’s Popeye comic strip) - wood, paint - c.1930-38 

Friedrich Seidenstücker (German, 1882-1966)

Walrusses at Berlin Zoo

critter as inspiration for design:

Ants on gingham fabric - mid-20th century

Mark S. McNair (b.1950) - Whale Weathervane - c.1980

Crow pull toy - painted wood -  early 20th century

Michael Sowa (German, b.1945) - Sheep 

Greyhound mascot - for Lincoln or Ford - chrome-plated metal - c.1931

Maltese Falcon - movie prop - Warner Brothers - 1941

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) - Seated Monkey - 1905

Irving Harper (American,1916-2015) - Owl - paper sculpture

Sam Wolfe Connelly (American, b.1988) - Claw - Conté drawing

Redmer Hoekstra (Dutch, b.1982)

pencil drawings:

Xylophone Scorpion - 2009

Giraffe Tree - 2016

Alligator Shoe - 2012

Mosquito Bulb - 2013

Gorilla Hand - 2015

Toad Road - 2013

Smiling Frog - 2019

Octopus Bellows - 2009

Armadillo Pinecone - 2016

Moth Zeppelin - 2012

"I play with form, meaning and function, while new combinations arise . . . Who am I? What is my reality and how do I get to decide how it looks and works? They are pen drawings on paper. I work with fine liners. By shading I create light and space, which gives a drawing life. It is important to draw as realistically as possible, to make the alienation most powerful. It’s a laborious and almost artisanal technique . A drawing on average takes 32 to 40 hours." 

Redmer Hoekstra - Self-portrait - 2016

http://www.redmerhoekstra.nl