#TwoForTuesday :
Beaded #Turtle & Beaded #Lizard Umbilical Pouches
On display at Santa Rosa Junior College Multicultural Museum (CA, USA)
“Umbilical pouches are created by Plains women when babies are born. The umbilical cord of the newborn is dried & then sewn into the pouch. The pouch may then be then hung on cradleboards or blankets as a protective amulet or hung on a tree to draw spirits away from the child. Lizards represent boys & turtles represent girls.”
#NativeAmericanArt #IndigenousArt

#TwoForTuesday :
Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth
(Austrian, 1891-1978)
Meerschweinchen (#GuineaPigs ), 1921 & 1947
color linocuts, 14 × 19 cm & 18 x 23 cm
#WomenArtists
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2464737193811155
https://www.kovacek-zetter.at/exponat/42465

#TwoForTuesday:
Ornament with Two #Horses
China, nomadic, Han, 206 BCE - 220 CE
Cast bronze sculpture
3 x 2 7/8 x 1 in. (7.62 x 7.3 x 2.54 cm)
LACMA 63.36.14 https://collections.lacma.org/node/233904
#ChineseArt

#TwoForTuesday:
Two Flat Stamps ( #Snake & #Frog )
Atlantic Watershed, Costa Rica, 1st–7th c. CE
Ceramic, H. 1 15/32 x W. 2 3/32 in. (3.7 x 5.3 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1979.206.1181,.1183
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/698256
#IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt
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#SquirrelAppreciationDay + #TwoForTuesday :
E. Mervyn Taylor (New Zealand, 1906 - 1964)
#Squirrels , n.d. (probably 1950s)
colour woodcut, signed ed. of 100
21 x 21 cm
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Squirrels/B28F131B0D5C707C228BE4CEEA8B1DC4

#TwoForTuesday :
Fritz Lang (Germany, 1877-1961)
#Flamingo Couple with Iris, 1926
Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 105.5 cm
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/flamingopaar-mit-iris-1976-c-9b64c8ba8d
#BirdsInArt

#TwoForTuesday :
Frans Toikkanen (Finland, 1926-2008)
Siilit (#Hedgehogs), 1960
woodcut, 16.5 × 21.5 cm
Kansallisgalleria C IV 1189
https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/569126

#TwoForTuesday :
William Bell Scott (Scottish, 1811–1890)
Two Hares, 1865–90
Gouache (bodycolor), heightened with gum arabic, 5 3/8 × 5 3/8 in. (13.7 × 13.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2021.16.5 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/756458

#TwoForTuesday :
#Cranes and #Serpents 475-221 BCE (Warring States Period)
China, State of Chu (reportedly from Hunan province,Changsha)
Lacquered wood with polychromy
132.1 x 124.5 cm (52 x 49 in.)
On display at Cleveland Museum of Art 1938.9
#ChineseArt #BirdsInArt

#TwoForTuesday:
Anna Heyward Taylor (USA, 1879-1956)
"Red Azaleas" + "Azaleas - #Butterflies" 1925
color woodblock prints
Gibbes Museum 1953.007.0034, 1953.007.0040:
https://gibbesmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/AA92EBEF-0982-4C02-84C0-053804409492
https://gibbesmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/101881A1-3C64-4FFF-952C-744735807313
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
#WomenArtists #CharlestonRenaissance

#TwoForTuesday #Bears :
Maureen Enns (Canadian, b.1949)
1. Spirit Bear in Great Bear Rainforest, 2016
mixed media on canvas 40 x 30 in.
2. Spirit Bear in Laughing Forest, 2016
oil on canvas 40 x 30 in.
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Spirit-Bear-in-Great-Bear-Rainforest/13BE55B7B044E63CF62DD7D9E82532D1
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Spirit-Bear-in-Laughing-Forest/61E9B3EF9047218D2A9BDF976823A24A
#WomenArtists

#TwoForTuesday, here is a #leopard nursing 2 cubs, on top of a #bear also nursing 2 cubs!
From Fol. 115v of BnF Lat. 16169 (Albertus Magnus, De animalibus), Paris, mid 14th c.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85409542/f232
#medieval #bestiary

#TwoForTuesday :
Judy Kensley McKie (American, b. 1944)
#Opossum door handles, pair, 2003
patinated bronze, 19½ h × 2¾ w × 3¼ d in (50 × 7 × 8 cm)
https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Opossum-door-handles--pair/F58EF6DCDFAA05F389D4A20525DA9CE6

For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday :
Two #Elephants
from Manafi al-Hayawan (Uses of Animals) by Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ (ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl), Maragheh, Iran, 1297-1300 (w/ 19th c. additions)
The Morgan Library & Museum MS M.500 fol. 13r
https://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/7/77363

For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday :
Amrita Sher-Gil (Hungarian-Indian, 1913-1941)
Two #Elephants, 1940
Oil on Canvas, 46cm X 54.3cm
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/two-elephants-amrita-sher-gil/
#WomenArtists

For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday :
#Elephant masks
Bamiléké people (Cameroon)
Blue cotton cloth, colored beads
Red cotton cloth, glass beads
Field Museum display
#AfricanArt

For #SaveTheElephantDay on #TwoForTuesday :
Pair of porcelain #elephants
Hizen, Japan, 1655-70
Made in Kakiemon Kiln for European export market
Porcelain w/ overglaze polychrome enamel (Hizen Ware), H 35cm ea.
British Museum 1980,0325.1-2: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1980-0325-1-2
#JapaneseArt

#TwoForTuesday as #Adelaide and #Sydney present a #Feline history lesson:

𝐍𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐰𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐬

Thousands of cats were dispatched to the trenches during WW1 to keep rodent numbers down and act as early warning detectors for mustard gas. So many gave great comfort to the troops as companions and mascots. How many cats survived we will never know?

Photo: A gunner with the regimental cat in a trench in Cambrin, France, February 6th, 1918

#TwoForTuesday + #TilesOnTuesday :
Joseph-Théodore Deck (French, 1823-1891)
Tile Plaques, c.1880
Earthenware w/ underglaze & overglaze enamel decoration
tiles 10 x 10 in (25.4 x 25.4 cm) ea.
panels 40 x 20 in (101.6 x 50.8 cm) ea.
On view at PMA
#birdsinart
The vibrant turquoise blue in these works was one of the signature glazes developed by Deck, who was inspired by Turkish ceramics. It came to be so closely identified with the artist that it came to be known in the late 1800s as ‘Deck blue.’”