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Emil Morhardt
Black-Bellied Plover #9

2019

About the Item

Artist Comments
Why is this bird with a clearly white breast so named? Because it's never in breeding plumage in Santa Barbara - I guess you have to go to the high Arctic to see its true colors. But these are still beautiful quite solitary shorebirds - often I'll only see one during a walk on the beach. They eye you carefully when in camera range and keep their distance but hardly ever fly away. Painted on deckled edge paper so the piece can either be floated or matted behind glass.

About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD in Environmental Physiology and Ecology from Rice University. He also was a Professor of Environmental Biology at Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges.

Black-Bellied Plover #9
Emil Morhardt
Watercolor painting on paper
Ready to frame
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front and back
2019
16 in. h x 20 in. w
0 lbs. 3 oz.

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    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
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    Black-Bellied Plover #9. Emil Morhardt. Watercolor painting on paper. Ready to frame. One-of-a-kind. Signed on front and back.
  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 636041stDibs: LU92214136882
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