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Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$57.2 million in 2023). [ 14][ 15] Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings by ...
Mary*s River Association. Retrieved 11 February 2021. A salmon fly designated as the "Picture Province" has been designed by Warren Duncan comprising a tag of gold symbolizing the value of Atlantic Salmon to New Brunswick; a butt of green floss honouring the fiddlehead; a tail of red goose fibres to match Canada's flag indicating New Brunswick ...
Bird-and-flower painting by Cai Han and Jin Xiaozhu, c. 17th century.. The huaniaohua is proper of 10th century China; and the most representative artists of this period are Huang Quan (哳㥳) (c. 900 – 965), who was an imperial painter for many years, and Xu Xi (徐熙) (937–975), who came from a prominent family but had never entered into officialdom.
Flower Myth: 29 x 15.8 Sprengel Museum, Hanover Watercolour on gauze, on newspaper 1919 After Drawing 19/75: 22.2 x 16 Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Watercolour 1919 Composition with Stars: 42.5 x 53.6 Kunstmuseum Den Haag: Gouache and oil on linen 1919 Landscape with Bluebirds: 21.6 x 28.3 Philadelphia Museum of Art: Watercolour on paper, on board ...
An Anishinaabe, Morrisseau was born March 14, 1932, [3] on the Sand Point Ojibwe reserve near Beardmore, Ontario.His full name is Jean-Baptiste Norman Henry Morrisseau, but he signs his work using the Cree syllabics writing ᐅᓵᐚᐱᐦᑯᐱᓀᐦᓯ (Ozaawaabiko-binesi, unpointed: ᐅᓴᐘᐱᑯᐱᓀᓯ, "Copper/Brass [Thunder]Bird"), as his pen-name for his Anishnaabe name ...
A black "trillium logo" was first introduced by the government of Ontario in 1964, and underwent minor modifications in 1972, 1994, and 2002. During the 1980s, the logo was imposed on a blue background. Modifications in 1994 included a change in colour to green, before it reverted to black in 2002.
List of birds of Ontario. The common loon is the official provincial bird of Ontario. This list of birds of Ontario includes all the bird species recorded in the Canadian province of Ontario as determined by the Ontario Bird Records Committee (OBRC). As of July 2021 there were 508 species on this list, 291 of which are known to breed in the ...
The common loon is the provincial bird of Ontario, and it appears on Canadian currency, including the one-dollar "loonie" coin and a previous series of $20 bills. In 1961, it was designated the state bird of Minnesota, and appears on the Minnesota State Quarter.