Tag Archives: Butterflies

1912: Butterflies

Odilon Redon: Evocation of Butterflies (ca. between 1910 and 1912)

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1832: The Destructive Sphinx

Illustrations from The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths; illustrated by one hundred and forty-four engravings, coloured after nature; in three volumes (Thomas Brown, 1832-4)                  

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1947: Iridescence

Andrey Avinoff: Iridescence (1925-1947) The entomologist Andrey Avinoff emigrated from Russia to the USA after the revolution and worked at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for 20 years, eventually becoming its director. He turned to painting only later in … Continue reading

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1864: Blue Morpho

Martin Johnson Heade: Blue Morpho Butterfly (c. 1864)

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