Today’s fun find: Pennsylvania Game News, May 1982, #Raccoon cover art by PA wildlife artist Gerald W. Putt. Look at the baby! 😂🥰 #MagazineArt #Ephemera #WildlifeArt

#Cockatoo Inkwell France, 19th c. Painted & gilt metal, H 24 cm www.bonhams.com/auction/1116... #BirdsInArt #Parrot

Merry #Crustmas to all who shellebrate 🦀 #Crab Effigy Vessel Chimu culture, Peru, c.900-1470 CE Blackware ceramic, H 6 5/8 in. (16.83 cm) freemansauction.com/auctions/206... #IndigenousArt #PeruvianArt #AndeanArt #CrabTime

Anthony Theakston continues his avian explorations in bronze and ceramic, sculpting these sleek creatures primed for flight. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/12/anth...

Bee-autifully crafted gold ornament in the form of a little bee 🐝 ❤️ Length 1.90 cm. From Minoan Crete, circa 1700-1600 BC. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

🦜 Histoire naturelle des promerops, et des guêpiers: . Paris: [publisher not identified], 1807.. [Source]

#TwoForTuesday : Karel Dujardin (Dutch, 1622–1678) The #Dog and the #Cat, c.1641–78 Etching; 2nd state of 2 Sheet: 2 15/16 × 3 1/4 in. (7.4 × 8.2 cm) Met 2024.317.13 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #CatsInArt #DogsInArt

#TextileTuesday : Chair cover (with #Parrot) Pennsylvania, USA,1875-1900 Wool: Plushwork, Embroidered Winterthur 1970.1528 museumcollection.winterthur.org/print-record... #BirdsInArt

#TextileTuesday : Textile, “Sea Saw” Designed by Ms. Sheila O'Hara (USA, b.1953), Manufactured by Muller-Zell GmgH & Co. KG, USA,1991 86% italian cotton, 14% polyester Cooper Hewitt 1993-39-1 collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1864... #Fish #WomenArtists

#MetalMonday + #MosaicMonday : Silver and Mosaic Inlay #Roadrunner Pin/Brooch Zuni artist, c.1925-1950 Set with jet, shell, turquoise, spiny oyster H 1-7/8 x W 2-7/8 in., 13.6 dwt. freemansauction.com/auctions/643... #NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt #BirdsInArt

Abdul Amonde Mkura, (Tanzanian, b. 1954), Untitled, pigment on cloth, c. 1999; photo: Fowler Museum. #Tanzania #africanart #africa #modernart #contemporaryart #abstractart #art #blueskyart #bskyart #museum #animals

A Fabergé Jewelled Sapphire Model of a Mouse, St Petersburg (around 1900) sold for $355,600, more than five times its high estimate at Sotheby's New York, 19 December 2025. © Sotheby's

Pheasants from the portfolio ‘Das thier in der decorativen kunst’ by Anton Seder, published in Vienna by Gerlach & Schenk in 1896. #AntonSeder #DecorativeArt #ArtNouveau #birdart

Insect Publishers' Binding! Martin P. Duncan and Emile Blanchard's 'The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects: (Insecta, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea),' Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1870. #publishersbindings #publishersbindingthursday #insectart #beetleart

Sunday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, BnF Latin MS 1178, f. 91v

Just your usual managerie of 18th century Meissen porcelain animals, now in the Sèvres museum.

Willow Tree and Mandarin Ducks in the Snow, Ito Jakuchu, 18th century

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, 1925 Artwork by Edward Bawden (1903-1989); printed by West & Partners, London Poster, lithograph in colours, backed on linen; 30 x 20in. (76 x 51cm) www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5... #BirdsInArt

Shibata Zeshin (Japan, 1807–1891) #Fox by Mystic Fire Edo period, 19th c. Album leaf; lacquer on paper 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (11.4 x 8.9 cm) Met 36.100.136 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #JapaneseArt

#SeaLion Effigy Vessel Moche culture, Peru, c.200-800 CE Polychrome ceramic, H 10 3/8 in. (26.35 cm) freemansauction.com/auctions/206... #IndigenoisArt #AndeanArt #PeruvianArt

Samuel Schellink (painter) for Rozenburg (manufacturer, Netherlands) Eggshell porcelain vase with polychrome #crab & reef decor, model 90, c.1900 freemansauction.com/auctions/642... #ArtNouveau #Japonisme

Sisson Blanchard (Haiti, 1929-1981) #Fish, n.d. Oil on canvas, 72 x 72 in. freemansauction.com/auctions/638...

Gora M'Beingue (Senegal, 1931-1988) Music, 1976 Acrylic on glass, 9 ½ x 12 ¾ in. freemansauction.com/auctions/753... #AfricanArt

Julius Moessel (USA, 1872-1960) Untitled (A Company of #Cockatoos), n.d. Oil on canvas, 29 x 24 in. freemansauction.com/auctions/753... #BirdsInArt #Parrots

Gold #cockatoo and water #buffalo mamuli ear ornaments or pendants East Sumba Island, Indonesia archipelago, 19th c. H 6.5 cm; 38.8 & 31 g www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti... #SoutheastAsianArt #BirdsInArt #Parrots

Charles Culver (USA, 1908-1967) #Pelican with #Gull on Head, n.d., Watercolor, 16 x 23 5⁄8 in. (40.6 x 60.0 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum 1966.36.63 americanart.si.edu/artwork/peli... #BirdsInArt

Prosper Alphonse Isaac (France,1858-1924) #Fish, #stingray, and #octopus, c.1900–24 Black ink & watercolor wash on laid paper 7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in. (20.2 × 15.7 cm) MIA 2018.117.10 collections.artsmia.org/art/128659/f...

David Gilhooly (USA, 1943-2013) Cereal Bowl with Wheaties, 1988 Ceramic and glaze On display at Museum of Arts and Design NYC #Frogs

David Gilhooly (USA, 1943-2013) Bread #Frog as a Coffee Break, 1981-82 Earthenware and glaze On display at Museum of Arts and Design NYC

Nancy Graves (USA, 1939-1995) #Camel VI, VII, and VIII, 1968-69 Wood, steel, burlap, polyurethane, animal skin, wax, oil paint National Gallery of Canada; now on display at Whitney Museum of Art NYC “Sixties Surreal” exhibition

Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds. London: H. Sotheran & Co., 1891-98. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48735288) #nature #illustration #art

Oiseaux brillans du Brésil. Paris, 1834. (source: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47697425) #nature #illustration #art

Vallayer-Coster is the subject of an #IlluminatingWomenArtists, forthcoming in March 2026! The bk will be co-published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social & Getty Publications – Anne Vallayer-Coster by Kelsey Brosnan www.lundhumphries.com/products/ann... #womenartists #artherstory

🐦 Parrots in captivity /. London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887 [i.e. 1883-1888]. [Source]

😸 A companion to Mr. Bullock's London Museum and Pantherion [London]: Printed for the proprietor, 1812. [Source]

ALL HAIL RAINBOW MOOSE 🌈🫎 Felieke van der Leest (Netherlands, b.1968) Rainbow #Moose (Sculpture with Necklace) (edition of 3), 2005 Polyester, plastic animal, 14k gold, silver, glass beads, epoxy resin, lead On display at Museum of Arts and Design NYC “OUT of the Jewelry Box” exhibition

Marvel Studios Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Ruth Carter, costume designer Douriean Fletcher, jewelry maker People of Talokan Starfish Necklace, c.2022 Raffia, shells, artificial sinew, hemp, plastic People of Talokan Shell Necklace, c.2022 Floral foam, raffia, shells On display @ MAD NYC

Georgia O'Keeffe (USA, 1887-1986) Summer Days, 1936 Oil on canvas, 36 1/8 × 30 1/8in. (91.8 × 76.5 cm) On display at Whitney Museum of American Art NYC (94.171) #WomenArtists

Jess (CA, USA, 1923-2004) If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink, 1962 Oil on canvas FAMSF 1994.31; currently on display @ Whitney Museum of American Art NYC “Sixties Surreal” show #BirdsInArt #Surrealism “a #parrot, representing folly, swallows an #owl with a key, representing wisdom”

Ed Ruscha (USA, b. 1937) Give Him Anything and He'll Sign It, 1965 Oil on canvas, 57 3/8 × 55 1/4 × 1 3/4in. (145.7 × 140.3 × 4.4 cm) On display at Whitney Museum of American Art NYC “Sixties Surreal” exhibtion (2024.228) #Surrealism #BirdsInArt

David Gilhooly (USA, 1943-2013) Potato Eating and Guarding #Pig: Midnight, 1973 Low-fire white earthenware & commercial glazes On display at Museum of Arts and Design, New York

#Caturday 🐱: Joan Brown (b. 1938; San Francisco, CA / d. 1990; Puttaparthi, India) The Bride, 1970 Oil, enamel, and glitter on canvas On display at Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC)

David Webb (USA, 1925-1975) #Monkey Brooch, designed 1965; executed 1972 18k gold, platinum, enamel, diamond, ruby On display at Museum of Arts and Design, New York

Baroque Pearl Mounted as a Cat Holding a Mouse, Spanish or south German, 17th century. Gold, enamel, and baroque pearl, 2.7 × 4 cm. Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf, 1992.499. © Art Institute of Chicago

Butterflies, c. 1700, by #CorneliaDeRijk ( #CorneliaDeRijck; Dutch, 1653-1726), who married her 1st husband #otd, Dec 19. Held by the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social, id.rijksmuseum.nl/200801435 #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

Forest still life with squirrel, c. 1683-7, by #AnnaRuysch (Dutch, 1666-1741), baptized #otd, Dec 19. Held by Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/A... #artherstory #womenartists Visit #ArtHerstory’s resource page for the artist at artherstory.net/anna-ruysch/

#FishFriday 🐠: Flask with #Fish Korea, Joseon dynasty, late 15th c. Stoneware with white slip & glaze 22.3 × 20.2 × 13.1 cm (8 3/4 × 7 7/8 × 5 1/8 in.) Art Institute Chicago 1964.936 www.artic.edu/artworks/218... #KoreanArt

#FrogFriday 🐸: #Frog Pendant Panama, Veraguas-Chiriquí style, c. 1000–1550 CE Cast gold 2 x 6.8 x 0.7 cm (13/16 x 2 11/16 x 1/4 in.) CMA 1963.250 www.clevelandart.org/art/1963.250 #IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt

#AnimalAlphabet … A-Z, almost 🙃 Dieren A.B.C. / histoire naturelle alphabetique. 1800 - 1833 Publisher: Philippus Jacobus Brepols, Turnhout Woodcut colored in green, orange, yellow, and red; text in letterpress H 313 mm x W 382 mm Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-201.977 id.rijksmuseum.nl/200101318

New project alert: illustrated animal alphabets 🔡🔠 Image bank coming soon to the website! Herry Perry (Heather Perry, 1893-1962) THE ZOO, ALPHABET, 1928 Lithograph in colors, printed by The Dangerfield Printing Co. Ltd., London; 40 x 25in. (102 x 64cm) www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...