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Birds -- Art

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

A Celebration of Birds: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and His Art photographic slides, 1983

 Series
Identifier: PSC 89C
Abstract

Slides of artwork displayed in the temporary exhibition A Celebration of Birds: Louis Agassiz Fuertes and His Art, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1983.

Dates: 1983

Art Survey No. 130: Buceros bicornis / LR "JG Keulemans", circa 1881

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 130
Scope and Contents

Two birds facing each other in trees, black and white markings. Great Pied Hornbill - India - Watercolor for Elliot, D.G."A Monograph of the Bucerofidae or Family Hornbills" Privately published, 18 c. plate 6. Inscription: MC "1/3" on reverse "Hornbills - Gt. Pied/ Early draft of plate 6?/ Dichornos, bicornus/ bicornis."

Dates: circa 1881

Art Survey No. 131: Bucorvus abyssinicus / LR "JG Keulemans", undated

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 131
Scope and Contents

Three birds standing on ground with mountains in background. Inscription: On reverse "Hornbills Plate 1/Bucoruus abyssinicus."

Dates: undated

Art Survey No. 132: Buceros rhinoceros / LM "JG Keulemans", undated

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 132
Scope and Contents

Three birds sitting on branches, sex? - blue-black bodies with white and black tails in jungle. Inscription: On reverse "Hornbills/ Early draft of Plate 4?/ Rhinoceros Hornbill."

Dates: undated

Art Survey No. 133: Tockus hemprichii / LR "JG Keulemans", undated

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 133
Scope and Contents

Two birds: one male, one female, male has green berry in mouth, facing each other. Inscription: On reverse "Hornbills/ 9/ Early draft of plate 52/ Tockus hemprichii."

Dates: undated

Art Survey No. 134: Aceros Cassidix / LL "JG Keulemans", 1881

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 134
Scope and Contents

Three birds: one male, two females, on branches in the jungle. Inscription: MC "2/5" on reverse "Hornbills/Aceros/cassidix/celebres/early draft of plate 16?".

Dates: 1881

Art Survey No. 135: Buceros hydrocorax / LR "JG Keulemans", 1881

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 135
Scope and Contents

Three birds: one male, two females - one female in nest in hollow tree, two other birds on branches. Inscription: LM "2/5" on reverse "Hornbills Plate 7/Rufous Hornbill - Philip/ hydrororax."

Dates: 1881

Art Survey No. 136: Rhyticeros undulatus / LR "JG Keulemans", 1881

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 136
Scope and Contents

Two birds: male and female facing each other, sitting on branches in the jungle. Inscription: MC "2/5" on reverse "8/ Obsurus (plicatus)/ - Ryticeros undulatus - Indian/Early draft of plate 35 - Hornbills."

Dates: 1881

Art Survey No. 137: Bycanistes breuis = cristatus / LL "JG Keulemans", 1881

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 137
Scope and Contents

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill. Two birds: male and female, sitting on a branch facing left. Inscription: MC "2/5" on reverse "Hornbills 7 Bycanistes breuis = cristatus/ Africa/Early draft of plate 26."

Dates: 1881

Art Survey No. 255: Badger and Blackbird / LR "Charles Livingston Bull", circa 1925

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 255
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Art Survey is an inventory of artwork throughout the Museum. It is not exhaustive: numerous additional artworks are documented in the library catalog after the survey's completion. Additional research on artworks in the Museum is in progress.

Dates: circa 1925