Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 3, 1 March 1987 — Museum Features Annual Birds in Art Exhibition [ARTICLE]

Museum Features Annual Birds in Art Exhibition

The llth annual Birds in Art exhibition, featuring the work of artists from 25 of the United States and eight other countries and more than 100 original paintings and sculptures of North American birds, opens Mar. 12 for five weeks at the Bishop Museum. Following its showing here, the exhibition moves to the Beijing Natural History Museum in the People's Republic of China. Other works feature artists from Japan, Australia and Canada. There are 97 paintings and 27 sculptures by 89 previous exhibitors and 23 newcomers. These artworks were selected from more than 750 entries submitted for consideration. A painting by Honolulu-born Thomas Quinn is included, as is the original of the 1986-87 federal duck stamp by Burton E. Moore. Three former winners of the Master Wildlife Artist award will have their works on display. They are Roger Tory Peterson, 1987 winner; Robert Bateman, 1982; and Guy Coheleach, 1983. The latter will be on hand for the Mar. 12 opening. The exhibition is organized by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, Wis., and sponsored by Northwest Airlines ine. It will be on display through Apr. 18 in the Museum's Hawaiian Hall vestibule gallery and Kahili Room. The diversity of bird species has increased in eaeh of the 11 years of this exhibit with the inclusion of new foreign artists and with American artists searching farther afield for exotic species. An Impeyan monal, an Ecuadoran pyrrhura, a golden-headed quetzal, bean geese, Caribbean parakeets and a bataleur eagle add an international flavor to the presentation. The exhibition is an official sister event of the "Perceiving Nature: How the Humanities, Arts and Sciences View our World" conference being held Mar. 20-22 at the University of Hawaii. Conference data may be obtained by calling Diana De Luea, Windward Community College, 235-7421. Bishop Museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and the first Sunday of eaeh month.