Frame
Top Mat
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Dimensions
Image:
8.00" x 6.50"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 12.00"
Black Terns #1 Framed Print
by Barry Kent MacKay
$83.00
Product Details
Black Terns #1 framed print by Barry Kent MacKay. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
The painting of the Black Tern (Childonias niger) was commissioned as a retirement gift for a biologist who studied the species. It is the fourth... more
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Artist's Description
The painting of the Black Tern (Childonias niger) was commissioned as a retirement gift for a biologist who studied the species. It is the fourth painting (plus several pen and ink studies) I have done of the Black Terns, a favourite subject because of its dainty elegance and subtle black, white, grey and silvery-grey colouration. Here I show two birds in late July as they would appear in in southern Ontario. One of the birds has started fall moult with white feathers starting to appear on the neck, but even in full breeding plumage the bases of the black feathers are white, so white often shows through the black. Common when I was young these marsh-nesting birds have become much rarer here in North America. They are very similar to ones found in Eurasia, but some experts think they should be regarded as two separate species. Our birds winter from Mexico south to southern South America while Eurasian birds normally winter on the west coast of Africa. They eat very small fish and inver...
Dennis Baswell
lovely work Barry l/f