Kenati the Calm Kestrel
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Emil MorhardtKenati the Calm Kestrel2018
2018
About the Item
Artist Comments
Kenati is an American kestrel who lives at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and who comes out with a handler every afternoon to be admired and photographed. He has an extremely placid gaze and demeanor so it's hard to think of him as a raptor. Here I painted him gazing at me quizzically, a frequent attitude of his, and a pleasing one.
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.
Kenati the Calm Kestrel
Emil Morhardt
Acrylic painting on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2018
15 in. h x 30 in. w x .75 in. d
2 lbs. 0 oz.
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- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 15 in (38.1 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Condition:Kenati the Calm Kestrel. Emil Morhardt. Acrylic painting on stretched canvas. Finished white edges. Varnished and Ready to hang. One-of-a-kind. Signed on front.
- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 630671stDibs: LU92213927862
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