“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. See past “This and That” posts here. – Ed.
Today: Birds
Some eye bleach for you: a collection of birds on things through time.
Unknown Iranian Artist, Bowl Depicting a Bird and Flowers, 11th century, Earthenware with white and colored slips. Collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Lenora and Walter F. Brown
Unknown Chinese Artist, Jar with Birds and Bamboo, Late 13th–late 14th century, Stoneware with iron glaze and white slip (Cizhou ware). Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase
Artist Unknown, Great Black Cockatoo, 1875, Hand-colored bookplate. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Denni Davis Washburn and Marie Scott Miegel. Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art.
Artist Unknown, Owl with painted bird, 20th century, Ceramic. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of The Dozier Foundation. Image courtesy Dallas Museum of Art
Wayne Thiebaud, Bird, 1979, Etching. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Friends of the McNay
Robert Ebendorf, Bird Brooch, 1994, Sterling silver, 14k gold, pearls, glass, and tin. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Leatrice S. and Melvin B. Eagle Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
A clip from “To Kill a Talking Bird,” from Season 4 Episode 14 of Frasier, 1997.
Bill Steffy, Bird, 2006, Silver, ironwood, lapis, and granite base. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the estate of Eva K. Kitchen, Kerry F. Inman and Denby Auble, Clinton T. Willour and Reid Mitchell, Alison de Lima Greene, Eleanor D. McMurtrey, Anne Wilkes Tucker, and Barry Walker in honor of Betty Moody and Bill Steffy on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of Moody Gallery. © Estate of William G. Steffy
Katie Pell, All of the Birds will come to You, 2007, Vine charcoal and pastel on paper with mirror frame. Collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Henry R. Munoz III and Geoffrey S. Edwards of Kell Munoz Architects, Inc.
A clip from “A Song for Portland,” from Season 1 Episode 2 of Portlandia, 2011. (See a breakdown of this clip below.)
A clip from a Bernie Sanders rally in Portland, 2016.
