Frame
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Dimensions
Image:
10.00" x 6.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
15.50" x 11.50"
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth Framed Print
by Barry Kent MacKay
$84.00
Product Details
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth 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 West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) was discovered by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 – 2004), a South African who shared my... more
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Comments (5)
Artist's Description
The West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) was discovered by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 – 2004), a South African who shared my interest in birds, but will forever be remembered for finding the first specimen known to science of a coelacanth, which, prior to her finding and preserving one from a fish market, were believed to have died out near the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs. Courtenay-Latimer was only 24 at the time! It was seventeen years before another was found, and in 1998 a new coelacanth species was caught near Sulawesi in the East Indian Ocean. Both species are critically endangered. My painting is in oils, on compressed wood panel, approximately 15 by 24 inches. The species I portrayed is blue (with irregular pale blue or whitish splotches) while the Indonesian Coelacanth is more brownish, but water quickly absorbs light from the colour spectrum with red being the first to go, violet the l...
Barry MacKay
Thanks so much. The original is owned by the University of Guelph, in Ontario.
Andrea Hazel
Congratulations
Barry MacKay
Thank you!
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Ukrainian Artists
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