#TwoForTuesday:
#Ostrich & #Cockatoo by pioneering Japanese graphic designer Hisui Sugiura (杉浦 非水 Sugiura Hisui, 1876-1965) from his design collection Hisui Sosaku Zuanshu, 1926
National Diet Library Japan:
https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/imagebank/theme/hisuisosaku
#JapaneseArt #GraphicDesign #BirdsInArt

#TwoForTuesday:
#Crab and #Fish by pioneering Japanese graphic designer Hisui Sugiura (杉浦 非水, Sugiura Hisui; 1876-1965) from Hisui Sosaku Zuanshu, 1926, a collection of designs created after his studies in Europe.
National Diet Library of Japan:
https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/imagebank/theme/hisuisosaku
#JapaneseArt #GraphicDesign

#TwoForTuesday :
Two #Bats
Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd Ṭūsī, ʿAjāyib al-makhlūqāt va-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt, Baghdad 790 AH / 1388 CE
BnF, Supplément persan 332, fol. 223v
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8422994d/f460.item

#TwoForTuesday :
Eric Carle (1929-2021)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
(promotional artworks, undated)
Collages of acrylic-painted tissue paper & wax crayon on illustration board
On display @ “Small Living Things: The Magical Art of Eric Carle” exhibition @ Michener Art Museum

#TwoForTuesday & #TurtleTuesday 🐢:
Eric Carle (USA 1929-2021)
Artwork for The Very Clumsy Click Beetle (1999) & The Foolish Tortoise (Richard Buckley, 1985)
Acrylic-painted tissue paper collages on illustration board
Exhibition: “Small Living Things: The Magical Art of Eric Carle” @ Michener Art Museum

#TwoForTuesday :
Royal goldsmiths; Kumasi, Asante
Empire, Ghana
#Lion ornaments, 19th c.
Gold; H. 1 1/2 x W. 2 1/8 x D. 2 1/4 in. (3.8 x 5.4 x 5.7cm) ea.
On display at the Met (1979.206.227, 228)
#AfricanArt

#TwoForTuesday :
Lagoon artist, Côte d'Ivoire
Double #Crocodile Pendant
19th–mid-20th century
Gold; H 3 3/4 x W 3 3/4 in. (9.5 x 9.5 cm)
On display at the Met (1979.206.151)
#AfricanArt
“Among Akan peoples, figural forms [on] ornaments often refer to proverbs & bear symbolic meaning: this pendant represents the popular Siamese twin-crocodile motif known as futumfunafu. With their shared stomachs but distinct heads, they allude to the challenges of aligning community & personal interests.”