Birdwatching: Selections from the Collection

Through February 2015

Often, typical birdwatching experiences involve treks into quiet or obscure areas, high-powered binoculars, and patience. As an alternative to slogging through shallow waters, swatting mosquitos, and braving cold or rainy weather, the Woodson Art Museum’s collection offers the best indoor birdwatching to be found. Birdwatching: Selections from the Collection includes historic works by Jessie Arms Botke, Rubens Peale, and Percival L. Rosseau.

Exhibition Highlights

Rubens Peale, Two Ruffed Grouse, 1864, oil on canvas mounted on board

Percival L. Rosseau, Ducks in Flight, ca. 1925, oil on canvas

Frederick S. Batcheller, Birds on a Green Beam, 1882, oil on canvas

Frank W. Benson, Eiders in Flight, ca. 1913, ink wash and graphite on paper

Jessie Arms Botke, Salmon-crested Cockatoo, ca. 1930, oil on canvas on board

Fidelia Bridges, Goldfinch and Thistle, ca. 1865, oil on Devoe Academy board

Emil Soren Carlsen, Still Life with Mallard and Teal, 1892, oil on canvas

John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood, 1937, pastel, colored pencil, and pencil on paper on board

Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Seagulls, 1909, watercolor on paper

Bruno Liljefors, Snipe in the Marsh, 1908, oil on canvas