Cockatoos

© Hunt Slonem/ VAGA for ARS, New York, NY. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. …
© Hunt Slonem/ VAGA for ARS, New York, NY
Cockatoos
© Hunt Slonem/ VAGA for ARS, New York, NY. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Cockatoos

Date2001
Artist (American painter, born 1951)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions77 1/2 × 108 in. (196.9 × 274.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of James V. Tigani, Jr., 2004
Object number2004-24
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextGrowing up in Hawaii, Slonem became particularly fond of birds, and he has lived with them since the 1980s. Elements of the bird cage--the bars, perches, and wire--structure his paintings.
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