#Lithograph in colors on wove paper

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The Slingshot Bird

Joan Miró

Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 1965

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Paul Wunderlich (1927-2010)—The Song of Songs which is Solomon's (I:16) [color lithograph on Rives wove paper, 1969]

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James Ensor

Poster for the Salon des Cent (Self-Portrait with Devils) (Delteil 131; Tavernier 141), 1898 Lithographic poster in colors on tan wove paper laid down to beige paper support, printed for the artist's 1898 exhibition at the Salon des Cent, Paris, framed. sheet 19 3/8 x 14 1/8in (48.6 x 36.1cm)

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It was on this day (21 February) in 1918 that the last known Carolina Parakeet, Incas, died at the Cincinnati Zoo – in the same cage the last known Passenger Pigeon, Martha, had died only four years earlier.

Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis, Linnaeus 1758) preserved specimen in the Field Museum of Natural History collection. [Wikimedia Commons]

Audubon’s illustration of the species in original edition of The Birds of America is perhaps one of his finest works (and definitely my personal favorite!), capturing the boisterous beauty of these colorful and highly social birds as they feast on cocklebur seeds. There is even a juvenile in the mix, its head still green:

"Carolina Parrot" (Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis subspecies), Plate XXVI in the original edition of The Birds of America (1827-38), engraving by Robert Havell, Jr. after John James Audubon’s original 1825 watercolor painting, hand-colored engraving and aquatint on wove paper. [Wikimedia Commons]

Unfortunately, the plate made for the smaller second edition is much inferior to the original, thinning out both the flock and foliage:

“Carolina Parrot or Parrakeet” (Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis subspecies), Plate 278 in the first Royal Octavo edition of The Birds of America (1840-4), engraving by J. T. Bowen after J. J. Audubon, hand-colored stone lithograph. [Wikimedia Commons]

Those green-bodied Carolina Parakeets in Audubon’s published plates are the nominate subspecies, Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis. He also made an unpublished watercolor of the other subspecies, Conuropsis carolinensis ludovicianus, which tended to have a more bluish body and paler yellow head plumage:

“Carolina Parrot” (Conuropsis carolinensis ludovicianus subspecies), unpublished watercolor painting by John James Audubon, 1811. [Wikimedia Commons]

The Carolina Parakeet (aka Carolina Parrot or Carolina Conure) was the northernmost ranging parrot and the only one native to the eastern United States. Audubon warned of their rapidly declining numbers during the early 1800s, describing witnessing large numbers of Carolina Parakeets being killed by landowners angered by their crop raids. The last confirmed wild sightings were in 1910, with unconfirmed sightings persisting into the 1940s; Incas was the last captive bird, and with his passing in 1918 and no further verified living specimens thereafter, the species was officially declared extinct in 1939.

Read more about the demise of the Carolina Parakeet and Audubon's valuable visual records of this now-extinct species on the blog:

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Alfred Jensen, Untitled, (lithograph in colors on wove paper), 1973 [© Estate of Alfred Jensen / ARS, New York]

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Louise Bourgeois (French/American, 1911-2010), Rameaux d’Olivier [Olive Branches], 2002. Lithograph in colors on wove paper, 40.5 x 30 cm. Edition 137/146

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Henri Rivière, La Pleine Lune, 1902

Henri Rivière, The Last Ray (Le Dernier Rayon), 1902

(Lithographs printed in color on smooth wove paper)

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Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011), Paris Review, 1967. Lithograph printed in colors on wove paper, 71 x 51.1 cm

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Humane Society Poster, 1998. George Rodrigue (1944-2013). Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper. Signed in silver ink, lower left.

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Ellsworth Kelly

Red Yellow Blue

lithograph printed in three colors on Rives BFK wove paper

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Cicada (ULAE 213), 1981

Jasper Johns

Lithograph in colors, on Arches 88 wove paper

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OTTO MUELLER

Five yellow acts by the water. 1921.

Lithograph in colors.

Karsch 156 c (of c). Monogrammed. One of ca. 100 unnumbered copies on this type of paper. On wove paper.

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Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont, a.k.a. Henri Privat-Livemont (Belgian, 1861 - 1936)

Set of 4 color lithographs on smooth, cream wove paper, ca. 1900, 545 × 250 mm; 21½ × 10 inches, ½ inch margins; published by Clément, Tournier & Co., Geneva. 

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Today is ALSO #CrowAndRavenAppreciationDay!

Russell T. Limbach (American, 1904-1971) The Crow Tree, 1938 color lithograph on white wove paper 17 7/8 x 20 3/8 in. (45.4 x 51.8 cm) Brooklyn Museum

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Robert Motherwell, The Aberdeen Stone, (color lithograph on light gray wove paper), Universal Limited Art Editions – ULAE, West Islip, NY, 1971 [The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./ARS, NY]