#TwoForTuesday :

Helmut Middendorf (Germany, b.1953)

#WorldLemurDay:

Hans Christian Scherfig (Danish, 1905-1979)

Halvaber (Lemurs), 1972

Lithograph in colors, 56×36 cm

#WorldOkapiDay :

Hans Christian Scherfig (Danish, 1905-1979) 1. Okapi, 1976 Lithograph in colors, 46×62 cm 2. Jungle Scene with an Okapi, 1956 Tempera on board, 31 x 36 cm

For autumn #WorldMigratoryBirdDay:

Charley Harper (USA, 1922-2007)

Birds of a Feather, 1974

Serigraph, 31 x 24 in.

“Flocking together as summer wanes, a brigade of bachelor red-winged blackbirds swings into the southbound lane, where traffic is backed up to the Arctic Circle. But where are the brownish females? Flocking apart. Red-winged congregations are strictly his or hers, except in spring when they sing, “I’m ok-a-lee, you’re ok-a-lee”, and consort among the cattails long enough to make sure there will always be red-winged blackbirds. Then it’s back to separate dorms—flocking together apart.”

–Charley Harper

For #SaveTheKoalaDay 🐨:

Henri Bastin (Belgian, 1896-1979)

Koalas in Gums, 1974

oil on board, 28.5 x 48.5 cm

For #AlligatorAwarenessDay:

Judith Bledsoe (American, 1938-2013)

Alligator, c.1974

Color lithograph, 10.5 x 15 in. (26.67 x 38.1 cm)

Andrew Wyeth (PA, USA, 1917-2009)

Night Sleeper, 1979

Tempera on panel

Collection of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, currently on display at Brandywine Museum of Art

“This monumental work is a portrait both of the Wyeth's dog, Nell, and of Brinton's Mill, the eighteenth-century industrial site that Betsy James Wyeth restored and repurposed into a timeless family home in a landscape rich in associations with the Revolutionary War. Like so many of Wyeth's works, the view is visionary rather than photographic, combining views of multiple sites in Chadds Ford with memories of childhood trips to Maine summers on overnight trains.”

For #InternationalWolfDay 🐺:

Bill Reid (Haida, Pacific NW Coast, 1920-1998)

Haida Wolf - Godj, 1979

Colour silkscreen on paper, 16.5 x 17 in.

#WorldSnakeDay bling 🐍:

vintage #Bulgari Serpenti bracelet-watches!

1. gold w/ red + green enamel & diamonds, c.1965 2. gold w/ polychrome enamel & emeralds, 1967 3. gold w/ red + yellow enamel & rubies, c.1967 4. model photo 1967 (published in US Vogue, 1971) [images via Bulgari Heritage Collection]

Bulgari also curated an exhibition of the snake motif in fashion & art history called "SerpentiForm":

And there's a book!

Bulgari: Serpenti: The Power of Metamorphosis

#CowAppreciationDay 🐮🐄:

Shiro Kasamatsu 笠松 紫浪 (Japan, 1898-1991) Pasturing of Cattle, 1979 color woodblock print

For #WorldOtterDay 🦦:

Tony Hunt Sr. (Kwakwaka'wakw, 1942-2017) Kwa-Gulth Sea Otter with Sea Uchin, 1975 silkscreen on paper, 14 x 21 in (35.6 x 53.3 cm)

Happy #MothersDay !

Tomoo Inagaki (Japanese, 1902-1980)

Cat Calling Kittens, c.1970

Woodblock print, W 18.5 x 22.8 in. (47 x 58 cm)

Salvador Dalí was born #OTD (11 May 1904 – 23 Jan 1989)…and it’s also #Baturday so:

The Angel of Melancholy (from the Aurelia Suite), 1972

Signed in pencil, edition of 175

Etching, aquatint, drypoint, 37.5x57.5cm

For #WorldMigratoryBirdDay :

Rie Muñoz (American, 1921-2015)

Migration, c.1977

Seriograph, 22.25" x 27.25"

For #FishFriday + #FintasticFriday : Giving #Sharks #Rays #Skates & #Sawfish a Voice, a celebration of all #Elasmobranchs:

Richard Ellis (American, b.1938) Great White Shark, c.1979 Lithograph, 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm) 🆔 The striped fish swimming around the Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) are Pilot Fish (Naucrates ductor), which have a neat mutualistic relationship with sharks:

For #FrogFriday 🐸:

Judith Bledsoe (American, 1938–2013) A Knot of Toads, c.1974 Lithograph, 23 x 11.5 in. (58.42 x 29.21 cm)

Maria Primachenko (Ukrainian, 1908-1997) Menagerie, 1977 gouache, fluorescent paint, paper, 61.9 x 88.5 cm