The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565 / Oil on oak wood panel / 46”x63 3⁄4” / Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
The Four Seasons: Winter
December 31~ Animals in Art
Eli by Lucian Freud
2002 / Oil on canvas / 28”x24” / Private collection
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Officer of the Hussars by Kehinde Wiley
2007/ Oil on canvas / 120”x120” / Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
December 30~ Animals in Art
Untitled (Dancing Dog) by Keith Haring
1981 / Sumi ink, and acrylic on paper mounted on canvas / 107”x186” / Private collection
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Standing Glass Fish by Frank Gehry
1986 / Wood, glass, steel, silicone, plexiglass, and rubber / 22 feet high /
Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, on long-term loan from the Minneapolis/Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden
December 29~ Animals in Art
Portrait of Pig by Jamie Wyeth
1970 / Oil on Canvas / 51 1/2”x83 1/4” / Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA
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Al-Buraq by Gora Mbengue
1975 / Reverse glass painting / 13 1/2”x19 1/4” / Brooklyn Museum, NYC
December 28~ Animals in Art
Pink Cow on Yellow Background Wallpaper by Andy Warhol
1966 / Screenprint on paper rolls / Various sizes / Various collections
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Kuamanbo (Ram) Helmet Mask* / Baule people of Ivory Coast
c.1970s /Paint and pigment on wood / Dimensions? / Second Face Museum of Cultural Masks, online*
*[Unfortunately, my anti-spyware program recently detected problems with that site,
so I have disabled the links. I apologize for the inconvenience.]
December 27~ Animals in Art
Giant Frog by Cornelia Van Auken Chapin
1941 / Granite on granite base / 38”x28”x29” / Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA
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The Dove by Pablo Picasso
1949 / Lithograph on paper / Image: 21 1/2”x27 3/8” / 5 artist’s proofs + 50 signed & numbered prints
December 26~ Animals in Art
Les Deux Chats by Suzanne Valadon
1918 / Oil on Canvas / 15 2/5”x19 3/4” / Private collection
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Tiger probably by Salvatore Cernigliaro,
Dentzel Carousel Company, PA
Carousel c.1900 / Hand-carved basswood / Pullen Park, Raleigh, North Carolina
December 25~ Animals in Art
The Adoration of the Shepherds
by Lorenzo Lotto
c.1534 / Oil on canvas / 57 4/5”x65 1/3” /
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia, Italy
The Nativity by Jacopo Tintoretto
Late 1550s, reworked 1570s / Oil on canvas /
61 1/4”x141” / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
December 24~ Animals in Art
Dugn’be (Bull Mask) / Bijagó people, Bissagos (Bijagós) Islands, Guinea-Bissau
Late 19th to mid-20th century / Wood, cow horns, glass, plant fiber, and paint /
10 5/8”x19 11/16”x11 13/16” / Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
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The World Cow by Franz Marc
1913 / Oil on canvas / 27 7/8”x55 5/8″ / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Misty Miss Christy 