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ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Sea Turtle Day: Warhol’s sea turtle movie promo art

June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day! Check out Andy Warhol’s 1985 sea turtle art and find out what movie it was made for.

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16 June, 2023 3 November, 2023Animal Art of the Day, Animal Holiday

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Turtle Day: an unusual tortoise portrait from 18th Century England, and its connection to Ottoman Turkey

May 23rd is World Turtle Day! This tortoise painting was an interesting find in the British portraiture rooms at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Even the signage acknowledges how unusual it is!

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23 May, 2023 3 November, 2023Animal Art of the Day, Animal Holiday, Museum Visit

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: Turtle Umblical Amulets

Here are two 19th-century turtle-shaped umbilical cord amulets from the Penn Museum‘s rotating display. The first one I saw on display this past weekend; the second one is from a visit back in 2019. I thought it looked different than what I remembered! 😉 1. Turtle-shaped umbilical cord amulet, Assiniboine…

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13 October, 2022 3 November, 2023Animal Art of the Day, Museum Visit

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY: Cat and Turtle

I’ve been going through my photos from all my museum visits from the past few years, and came across these photos I took of a fun find from the Met. The Met’s catalog of the Robert Lehman Collection suggests that the painting was inspired in part by Matisse’s Bathers with…

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3 July, 2022 8 September, 2022Animal Art of the Day, Museum Visit

ANIMAL ART OF THE DAY for World Turtle Day #1: a sea turtle and a land tortoise on a pair of ancient Aeginan coins

Greek turtle coins

Coins of Aegina depicted images of sea turtles on their coins when the island of Aegina was the supreme sea power among the Greek city-states. The sea turtle, seen here on the front (obverse) of this coin, represented its naval strength and resiliency. After its defeat by Athens in 458…

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23 May, 2022 8 September, 2022Animal Art of the Day, Animal Holiday
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