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Emil Morhardt
Three Long-Billed Curlews, Original Painting

2018

About the Item

Artist Comments
Long-Billed Curlews, some of the largest of the shorebirds, often hang out together, milling around at the edge of the surf, then wading in to feed. I spotted these on East Beach in Santa Barbara watching the sunbathers watch them. This is their characteristic winter plumage.


About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD in Environmental Physiology and Ecology from Rice University. He also was a Professor of Environmental Biology at Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Pitzer Colleges.


Words that describe this painting: Long-Billed Curlew, birds, animal portrait, shorebirds, seabird, animals, realism, representational, acrylic painting, white, orange


Three Long-Billed Curlews
Emil Morhardt
Acrylic painting on masonite board
Natural wood edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2018
24 in. h x 36 in. w x 1.5 in. d
7 lbs. 0 oz.


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  • Creation Year:
    2018
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
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  • Condition:
    Three Long-Billed Curlews. Emil Morhardt. Acrylic painting on masonite board. Natural wood edges. Varnished and Ready to hang. One-of-a-kind. Signed on front.
  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 639751stDibs: LU92216553142
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