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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · 2d ago

Today is both #WorldFrogDay and #WorldSparrowDay so here is Swallow and Frog at a Party by Teisai Hokuba (Japan, 1771–1844), woodblock print (sumizuri-e), ink on paper, 18 x 21.3 cm (7 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston collection: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/533328
#JapaneseArt

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Announcement for our next UDAAWG meeting - we are new and still actively recruiting so please pass along to anyone who may be interested!
PS: This is a UD graduate student working group, BUT we also welcome advanced undergrads, recent alumni, AND students from UD-affiliated institutions (CMCS, CEH, DENIN, Winterthur, etc.).

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

Zoologist exploring animal iconography via intersections of natural history with art & visual culture history. AKA Deniz (she/they), PhD student @ University of Delaware. https:// linktr.ee/arthistoryanimalia

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Dive into Wool Creature Lab’s World of Vibrant Felted #Nudibranchs !
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/wool-creature-lab-arina-bovenich-felted-wool-nudibranchs/ via Colossal

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

#WomenArtists with bonus #BirdsInArt (via Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum):
https://www.lywam.org/stepping-into-the-light-women-artists-and-creative-kinships/

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

For #WorldWildlifeDay :
More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn #Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas’s ‘Wild World’ Map https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/anton-thomas-wild-world/ via Colossal

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

Zoologist exploring animal iconography via intersections of natural history with art & visual culture history. AKA Deniz (she/they), PhD student @ University of Delaware. https:// linktr.ee/arthistoryanimalia

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

The March social media calendar is finally up - just in time for #WorldWildlifeDay today! It's a busy month for animal and artist days. :)
https://arthistoryanimalia.com/calendar/

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

#BlueMonday 💙
“L'Argus bleu celeste”
= Adonis Blue #Butterfly (Lycaena bellargus)
Plate 10, Les papillons dans la nature (1934)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6197409831/in/album-72157627662612521
#SciArt via BHL

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 03, 2026

#MonochromeMonday:
Drawing, #Ostrich, 1976
Suzie Zuzek (USA, 1920-2011)
textile design for Key West Hand Print Fabrics, Inc. for Lilly Pulitzer, Inc.
brush & pen, watercolor, gouache, & ink on paper
H 38.1 × W 27.9 cm (15 × 11 in)
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/2318804110/
#WomenArtists #BirdsInArt

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

#SupersizedSunday:
Clarence Holbrook Carter (USA, 1904-2000)
Over and Above, No. 14
1964
Oil on canvas, 75 3/16 x 77 3/16 in. (191 x 196 cm)
On display at Michener Art Museum
#BirdsInArt #Vulture

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Art History Animalia

@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

#SuperSizedSunday:
Linda Guenste (USA, b.1959)
A Murder of #Crows, n.d.
Oil in linen, w80 x h48 in.
On display at Michener Art Museum
#BirdsInArt #WomenArtists

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

One more for #NationalPigDay 🐖:
Child’s Collar: #Pig
China, 1st half 20th c.
Silk & cotton embroidery w/ appliqué
Photographed on display at The Textile Museum (DC) in 2023.
#ChineseArt

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Art History Animalia

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

For #NationalPigDay 🐖:
Bagpiping piggy! 🐷🎶
Illustration in a ca. 16th c. Irish illuminated manuscript:
Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2, f.34r.
Royal Irish Academy:
https://www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_D_ii_2.html#81

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Art History Animalia

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

#BookRecommendation for #NationalPigDay 🐖📗:
The #Pig: A Natural History https://amzn.to/3T7OGme

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

#BookRecommendation for #NationalPigDay:
#Pig (Animal series) by Brett Mizelle https://amzn.to/49vgasK

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Art History Animalia

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

RE: @arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social

Resharing for #NationalPigDay 🐖

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Sermon on the sea-mount: the fascinating history of fishy sea pulpits
The 18th-century witnessed a strange proliferation of sea-themed pulpits across Central Europe:
https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/sea-pulpits-central-europe

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

#Caturday 🐱:
Leonard Weisgard (USA, 1916-2000)
Burmese #Cat, n.d.
gouache & watercolour on thick wove paper, 360 x 280 mm
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/weisgard-leonard-1916-2000-burmese-cat-238-c-c444ef0863
#CatsInArt

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

#Caturday 🐱:
Cloisonne Enamel #Cat Effigy
China, 20th c.
H 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.), W 4 cm (1 9/16 in.)
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/225392538_a-chinese-cloisonne-enamel-cat-effigy-20th-century-3fh-hunghom-kowloon
#ChineseArt

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

More #InternationalPolarBearDay on the blog:
ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for International Polar Bear Day: Richard Friese's Polar Bears
https://arthistoryanimalia.com/2024/02/27/animal-art-of-the-day-for-international-polar-bear-day-richard-frieses-polar-bears/

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

#BookRecommendation for #InternationalPolarBearDay:
Polar Bear (Animal series) by Margery Fee (2019) https://amzn.to/3UZYKA3

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 28, 2026

#FishFriday 🐠:
Urushibara Mokuchu (Yoshijirō) (Japan, active in Europe, 1888–1953)
Koi Carp, c. 1930s, for Galerie Michel (Paris)
Woodcut on paper (after an ink drawing) signed w/ artist's stamp 30 x 24 cm (c. 11.81 x 9.44 in)
https://www.1stdibs.com/art/prints-works-on-paper/animal-prints-works-on-paper/mokuchu-urushibara-japanese-print-koi-carp-signed-woodcut/id-a_17345562/
#JapaneseArt #Fish

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

#FrogFriday 🐸:
Finger Ring (with #Frog & #Serpents)
Western Greek, 400-350 BCE
Gold, L 1.70 cm, Dia. 1.30/1.80 cm, 3.04g
British Museum 1872,0604.52 https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1872-0604-52
#AncientArt

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

For #InternationalPolarBearDay on #FabricFriday 🐻‍❄️:
Fabric Sample (with #PolarBear design)
Beith, Stevenson & Co, Manchester, 1911
printed cotton, W 65.4 x L 76.2 cm
V & A Museum T.304-2002:
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O73537/fabric-sample-beith-stevenson/

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

More for #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻‍❄️: #DYK its scientific name is Ursus maritimus - "maritime bear"!
Swimming Bear, c. 500-1200 CE
Middle Dorset culture, Alamek Site, Iglulik Region, Canada
walrus ivory carving, H 30.4 x L 156.0 x W 36.0mm
Canadian Museum of History collection
https://flic.kr/p/5C7gZp

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

It’s #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻‍❄️! #DYK #PolarBears are the biggest, most aquatic, and most carnivorous of the world’s 8 living bear species?
Polar bear by Christian Wilhelm Kehrer (German, 1775-1869), 1820, oil on canvas. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt collection.
Image via: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_bear_by_Christian_Wilhelm_Kehrer,_1820,_oil_on_canvas_-_Hessisches_Landesmuseum_Darmstadt_-_Darmstadt,_Germany_-_DSC00082.jpg

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Art History Animalia

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

For #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻‍❄️:
Alexander Akeya (Aayanga) (Siberian Yupik [Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island], 1928-2011)
Figure of #PolarBear and Cub, c.1975
Sculpture: ivory & paint, 8.3 x 3.3 x 5 cm.
Smithsonian NMAI 26/2541 https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/object/NMAI_278653
#IndigenousArt

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

#Woodensday:
Megaphone
Congolese, 18th c.?
Wood, D 34 in (86.4 cm) / Dia. 8.5 in (21.6 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 89.4.3323 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504650
“Wood megaphone with transforming mask motif. In profile, the voice disguiser is a ferocious #crocodile but from the front it is an ancestor spirit.”
#AfricanArt

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Art History Animalia

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 26, 2026

Influential German artist Ewald Mataré was born #OTD (25 Feb 1887 – 28 Mar 1965). #Animals were a common subject of both his woodcuts & sculptures.
1 Beaver, 1964, silver
2 Equine Figure, 1945, bronze
3 “Nothing without nature”: Ewald Mataré's animal sculptures (exhibition catalog - #bookrecommendation )
Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré-Sammlung
https://www.barlach-haus.de/ausstellungen/ewald-matare/

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

#TextileTuesday / #TigerTuesday 🐯
Baby Collar with #Tiger Circling the Neck
Lao Han (Old Han), Guizhou Province, China, 19th c.
Silk, cotton, plastic buttons
9 1/2 in. x 10 in. (24.13 cm x 25.4 cm)
Mingei International Museum 1998-51-046 https://collections.mingei.org/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%22Tiger%22&sort=9
#ChineseArt

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

#TwoForTuesday / #TextileTuesday:
Antelopers (Furnishing Fabric) x 2
Designed by Ben Rose (USA, 1916–2004) for Ben Rose, Inc., Chicago, 1965
Rayon & modacrylic, plain weave; screenprinted
67.3 × 61 cm (26 1/2 × 24 in), 67.5 × 57.5 cm (26 5/8 × 22 5/8 in)
Art Institute of Chicago 1996.376,7 https://www.artic.edu/artists/22194/ben-rose
#Bongo

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

#ToucanTuesday:
Ann T. Cooper (USA, 1935-2005)
Wide Awake #Toucan, n.d.
Serigraph, 14" x 18"
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Wide-Awake-Toucan/854C19F199A1807959527DD5C1EC0509
#BirdsInArt #WomenArtists

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 25, 2026

#TwoForTuesday / #TurtleTuesday
“Tortoise and offspring”(Minogame?)
Japan, 20th c.
Painted wood
Mingei International Museum 1996-42-154A-B https://collections.mingei.org/objects-1/info?query%3Dmfs%20any%20%22cat%22%26sort%3D9%26page%3D561
#JapaneseArt

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

Cloisonne Enamel Pekingese #Dog Effigy
China, 20th c.
H 5.8 x W 7 cm (2.25 x 2.75 in.)
“Cloisonne animal effigies were produced in China during the 20th c. as decorative objects, w/ the Pekingese modeled after a breed traditionally associated w/ imperial & domestic settings.”
#ChineseArt #DogsInArt
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/226547582_a-chinese-cloisonne-enamel-pekingese-dog-effigy-20th-century-9fh-hunghom-kowloon

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

White #Cockatoo on a Perch
India, late 18th c.
gouache & gold on paper
painting: 16.6 x 10 cm (6 3/4 by 4 1/4 in.)
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/1000-ways-seeing-l14313/lot.83.html #IndianArt #BirdsInArt #Parrot

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 12, 2026

#WatercolorWednesday :
Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978)
Lying #Cat, 1920
Watercolor on paper
9.45 x 9.45 in.
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Lying-cat/60E421426A0603B6

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@arthistoryanimalia@mastodon.social · Feb 02, 2026

#NationalSerpentDay 🐍 René Lalique (France, 1860-1945) #Serpents ' Corsage ornament, Paris, c.1898-9 Chased & enamelled gold, H 21.0 x W 14.3 cm Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 1216 https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/works/serpents-pectoral/ #ArtNouveau

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