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Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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 coyotes run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Morhardt 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. Morhardt 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. Morhardt was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Morhardt has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in Environmental Physiology and Ecology from Rice University. He also was a Professor of Environmental Biology at Claremont McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer Colleges.

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Artist: Emil Morhardt
Black Turnstone #3
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Black turnstones are small hyperactive solitary shorebirds that, on Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara where they can be found in abundance in early winter, ra...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Black Turnstone #3
Black Turnstone #3

Emil Morhardt
Black Turnstone #3, 2019

$425
Black-Bellied Plover #9
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Why is this bird with a clearly white breast so named? Because it's never in breeding plumage in Santa Barbara - I guess you have to go to the high Arctic to ...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Emil Morhardt Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Black-Bellied Plover #9
Black-Bellied Plover #9

Emil Morhardt
Black-Bellied Plover #9, 2019

$425
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