art_history_animalia, 1 month ago to random

For #InternationalFlamingoDay #FlamingoFriday 🦩:
Truus Nienhuis (Dutch, 1929-2019)
Tile tableau, painted with #flamingos in a water landscape with irises, c. 1900
Earthenware, h 95.5cm × w 50.0 cm
Rijksmuseum BK-1977-247: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/BK-1977-247
#BirdsInArt #ArtNouveau

art_history_animalia, 4 months ago to random

#FlamingoFriday:
Jean Metzinger (French, 1883-1956)

1. Les flamands, 1906, oil on canvas, 32.8x40.6cm
2. Le flamant rose et le voilier, 1905-6, oil on canvas, 66x91.4cm
3. Les Ibis, 1907, oil on canvas, 54x73cm
4. Paysage colore aux oiseaux aquatique, 1907, oil on canvas, 65x92cm
   https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-metzinger
   #birdsinart

Le flamant rose et le voilier, 1905-6, oil on canvas, 66x91.4cm pink flamingo feeding in a blue pool in a tropical landscape neo-impressionist/fauvist style
Les Ibis, 1907, oil on canvas, 54x73cm an white ibis and a pink flamingo in a tropical landscape neo-impressionist/fauvist style
Paysage colore aux oiseaux aquatique, 1907, oil on canvas, 65x92cm a pink flamingo feeding in he water with two other birds in a tropical landscape neo-impressionist/fauvist style

art_history_animalia, 5 months ago to random

#FlamingoFriday: South Africa has 2 native #flamingo species, the Greater Flamingo & Lesser Flamingo; both appear in works by South African expressionist artist Maggie Laubser (1886-1973).

1. Flamingos on the beach, n.d.
2. Flaminke en seilbootjie, 1932
3. Uitsig met boot en flaminke, n.d.
4. Landscape with houses, figure, boats and birds, n.d.
   (all works oil on board, likely c.1930s)
   #WomenArtists #BirdsInArt

Flaminke en seilbootjie, 1932 oil on board Maggie Laubser Collection, Stellenbosch University Museum https://digital.lib.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.2/15916
Uitsig met boot en flaminke oil on board 56.5x61cm Rupert Museum https://rupertmuseum.org/collections/laubser-maggie-uitsig-met-boot-en-flaminke/
Landscape with houses, figure, boats and birds oil on board 45x51cm http://www.johansborman.co.za/sa-masters/laubser-maggie/landscape_with_houses_figures_boats_and_birds__45_x_51_cm.jpg/