#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

t’s #NationalShrimpDay so it’s the perfect excuse to share this 😛

Woman With Shrimp, c.1930s

Ercole Barovier (Italian, 1889-1974) for Barovier & Toso (Italian)

Blown & solid-worked glass

13.5x4.75x7.5 in. (34.3x12.1x19.1 cm)

The Chrysler Museum of Art 97.42.9

Influential Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer was born #OTD (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528). Lots of posts today with his most famous animals like the rhino, stag beetle, hare, etc., but he illustrated lots of other cool critters too, like this cute crab! 🦀

Crab, 1495 watercolor & gouache, 2.63 x 3.55 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Here are some book recommendations from my library to learn more about his many works focused on animals:

1. Dürer's Animals

2. Nature's Artist: Plants and Animals by Albrecht Dürer

3. Albrecht Dürer and the Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance