For #Caturday 🐱:
E. Mervyn Taylor (New Zealand, 1906-1964) 1. Cats Colour linocut, 29 x 39 cm 2. Petunia & Tom Color linocut, 41 x 28 cm
#FishFriday :
Rita Angus (New Zealand, 1908-1970) Fish V, 1969 oil on hardboard, H 61.0 x L 60.6 cm Te Papa 1970-0012-2
For #FishFriday + #FintasticFriday : Giving #Sharks #Rays #Skates & #Sawfish a Voice, a celebration of all #Elasmobranchs:
Frank Edward Clarke (UK/NZ, 1849-1899) Sphyrna zygaena (NZ) - Hammerhead Shark, head dorsal aspect & head ventral aspect, 1898 watercolors on paper, 424x252mm & 385x290mm Te Papa 1992-0035-2278/112,3
#animals in art#animal holiday#19th century art#Frank Edward Clarke#scientific illustration#natural history art#shark#Hammerhead Shark#colonial art#New Zealand art#British art#ichthyology#marine biology#sea creatures#fish#Fish Friday#Fintastic Friday#works on paper#watercolor#painting#drawing#historical sciart#Te Papa
For #WorldPenguinDay:
Eileen Mayo (1906-1994) Yellow-eyed Penguin, 1976 gouache on paper Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongarewa
#penguin#penguins#Yellow-eyed Penguin#bird#birds#birds in art#New Zealand#New Zealand art#New Zealand wildlife#New Zealand animals#ornithology#ornithological illustration#zoological illustration#scientific illusration#natural history illustration#natural history art#20th century art#animal holiday#World Penguin Day#works on paper#Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa#women artists#eileen mayo#animals in art
For #Woodensday:
Octopus and Rat by Kuki Sii, Tongan artist wood carving w/ shell Sydney, Australia c.1970 + The Rat and the Octopus book by Temukisa Lelemia, illustrated by Murray Grimsdale Wellington, New Zealand 1998
“This carving and children's storybook depict the legend of an ungrateful rat and the octopus' revenge, as told for generations in Tonga, Samoa, the Tuamotus and other islands. Storytelling links islands and shares ways of thinkitig about animals over time and space.”
On display at American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
Lily Attey Daff, who was born #OTD (16 March 1885 - 3 May 1945), created a lovely series of native New Zealand bird portraits in the 1930s. Here is her Kea from 1934:
Original watercolour on paper, 38 x 25.5 cm. ZSL Library
The Avicultural Magazine, Ser. 4, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1934; Lily Daff's Kea illustration accompanying S. Porter's article “Notes on New Zealand Birds,” pp. 65-75. Biodiversity Heritage Library
Forest and Bird Magazine, October 1934, Lily Attey Daff's Kea illustration on cover. Papers Past
Photo of a Kea (Nestor notabilis), a large parrot endemic to the New Zealand's South Island; listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List, est. pop. <7000. Wikimedia Commons / CC0
#Lily Attey Daff#bird#birds in art#New Zealand#20th century art#New Zealand art#Kea#endangered species#watercolor#painting#lithograph#illustration#magazine illustration#magazine cover#scientific illustration#ornithological illustration#natural history art#women artists#Womens History Month#OTD#animals in art