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Tag Archives: Butterflies
1912: Butterflies
Odilon Redon: Evocation of Butterflies (ca. between 1910 and 1912)
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Butterflies, France, Insects, Odilon Redon, Painting
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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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Tagged 1920's, 1940's, 20th Century, Andrey Avinoff, Animals, Art, Butterflies, Drawing, Flowers, Insects, LGBTQ, Painting, Russia, Soviet Union, USA
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1864: Blue Morpho
Martin Johnson Heade: Blue Morpho Butterfly (c. 1864)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Butterflies, Insects, Martin Johnson Heade, Painting, USA
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