#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.”

#TwoForTuesday / #TextileTuesday:
Antelopers (Furnishing Fabric) x 2
Designed by Ben Rose (USA, 1916–2004) for Ben Rose, Inc., Chicago, 1965
Rayon & modacrylic, plain weave; screenprinted
67.3 × 61 cm (26 1/2 × 24 in), 67.5 × 57.5 cm (26 5/8 × 22 5/8 in)
Art Institute of Chicago 1996.376,7 https://www.artic.edu/artists/22194/ben-rose
#Bongo

#TwoForTuesday / #TurtleTuesday
“Tortoise and offspring”(Minogame?)
Japan, 20th c.
Painted wood
Mingei International Museum 1996-42-154A-B https://collections.mingei.org/objects-1/info?query%3Dmfs%20any%20%22cat%22%26sort%3D9%26page%3D561
#JapaneseArt

For #LunarNewYear #YearOfTheHorse on a #TwoForTuesday :
Rebecca Raubacher (USA, b. 1954)
#Horses with Blue and Silver, 2023
Mixed media on paper, 60 x 40 in.
Biggs Museum of American Art collection
#WomenArtists #ContemporaryArt

Two vultures. #BirdOfTheDay #oddcouples 📷🌿🪶

#TwoForTuesday:
Lowell Nesbitt (USA, 1933-1993)
Pink #Cockatoo with Orchid, 1980
Black Cockatoo with Orchid, 1980
Oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm ea.
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/search/?keyword=Lowell%20nesbitt%20cockatoo&sort=-relevance&status=archive
#BirdsInArt #Parrots