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Geese in Flight, watercolor/pencil on paper: color image: 1923: 19.7 in x 13.8 in (50 cm x 35.1 cm) Scene: Canada geese (2) in flight. Great White Herons, etching: 1923: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA: Benson, adept at capturing light in his paintings, demonstrates that skill in the creation of the etching Great White ...
Ohara Koson, around the age of 53. Ohara Koson (also Ohara Hōson, Ohara Shōson) (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, at the forefront of shinsaku-hanga and shin-hanga art movements.
Clockwise from top left: blue cranes, sandhill cranes, grey crowned cranes, and red-crowned cranes Cranes are tall wading birds in the family Gruidae. Cranes are found on every continent except for South America and Antarctica and inhabit a variety of open habitats, although most species prefer to live near water. [ 1 ]
Ōkyo's painting style merged a tranquil version of Western naturalism with the Eastern decorative painting of the Kanō school. [13] His works show a Western understanding of highlight and shadow. [13] His realism differed from previous Japanese schools in its devotion to nature as the ultimate source with no regard for sentiment.
The common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes.A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly found in Europe besides the demoiselle crane (Grus virgo) and the Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus) that only are regular in the far eastern part of the continent.
The family Ardeidae contains the bitterns, herons and egrets. Herons and egrets are medium to large wading birds with long necks and legs. Bitterns tend to be shorter necked and more wary. Members of Ardeidae fly with their necks retracted, unlike other long-necked birds such as storks, ibises and spoonbills. Great bittern, Botaurus stellaris
Whooping crane in flight. On average, the whooping crane is the fifth-largest extant species of crane in the world. [11] Whooping cranes are the tallest bird native to North America and are anywhere from the third to the fifth heaviest species on the continent, depending on which figures are used.
He placed it with the cranes and herons in the genus Ardea and coined the binomial name Ardea pavonina. He specified the type locality as Africa. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Linnaeus cited earlier authors including the English naturalist George Edwards who in 1751 had included a description and a hand-colour etching of the "Crowned African Crane" in the fourth ...