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This painting shows multiple birds on and around a small, leafy tree. The birds are a variety of colors and sizes, including birds that look like hawks, blue jays, hummingbirds, magpies, and kestrels. They are shades of black, white, brown, gray, red, yellow, and pale blue. The birds are positioned at various heights on the small tree and on the ground below, all facing different directions. The ground is green, with small grasses and ferns, and the sky behind the tree is pale yellow.
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This painting shows multiple birds on and around a small, leafy tree. The birds are a variety of colors and sizes, including birds that look like hawks, blue jays, hummingbirds, magpies, and kestrels. They are shades of black, white, brown, gray, red, yellow, and pale blue. The birds are positioned at various heights on the small tree and on the ground below, all facing different directions. The ground is green, with small grasses and ferns, and the sky behind the tree is pale yellow.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Birds

American 19th Century

Date
c. 1840
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 43.1 x 35.5 cm (16 15/16 x 14 in.) framed: 53 x 45.4 x 2.8 cm (20 7/8 x 17 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1978.80.12
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • bird
  • animal
  • American Naive Paintings
  • Naive
Provenance

Recorded as from New York. (Harry Stone, New York), by whom sold in 1945 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1978.

NGA object ID 56739. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.