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Dowitcher;Plover, Black-bellied;Plover, Semipalmated;Ptarmigan, White-tailed;Whimbrel
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Dowitcher;Plover, Black-bellied;Plover, Semipalmated;Ptarmigan, White-tailed;Whimbrel
Context: Second section of Brewster Study Sketch Panel #1 (11 sketches).. Studies for #1223 (Shorebirds), #1203 (White-tailed Ptarmigan, winter plumage), and #1204 (White-tailed Ptarmigan, summer plumage).. Preliminary watercolor sketches for a group of paintings commissioned by Frederick Foster Brewster for the study of his 66 room Tudor-style manor house in New Haven, Connecticut (built in 1909). The study was paneled with Java teak in which were set twenty-four Fuertes paintings, ranging in size from 19"x28" to 37"x100." Brewster bequeathed the paintings and the interior of his study to the Laboratory of Ornithology.
Date: 1910c.
Location: Laboratory of Ornithology
Medium: Watercolor
ID Number: 2241
Size: 9.5" x 42.5"
Support: Paper
Type: Studies
Title: Brewster Study Sketch (detail)