Perlman Teaching Museum - Bird Series #38

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Bird Series #38

1987
20th century
15 3/4 in. x 20 1/2 in. (40.01 cm x 52.07 cm)

Win Knowlton, b. 1953

Object Type: Drawing

Creation Place: North America, United States

Medium and Support: charcoal on paper

Credit Line: Carleton College Art Collection

Accession Number: 1997.293

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This object has the following keywords:

20th Century, Aves (class)*, bird (animal), charcoal (color)*, charcoal (plant material)*, charcoal black (plant material)*, charcoal sticks*, Contemporary*, paper (fiber product)*

20th Century
Aves (class) - The class of vertebrate animals that are typically bipedal and warm-blooded, lay large-yolked hardshelled eggs, often arboreal, and possessing feathers, hollow bones, forelimbs adapted for flight (although some have lost the ability to fly) and hindlimbs for perching and locomotion, a four-chambered heart, keen vision, a horny beak without teeth, and a large muscular stomach. Birds arose from theropod dinosaurs, which were an order of carnivorous dinosaurs.
bird (animal)
charcoal (color) - Refers to a range of reddish to bluish grayish or blackish colors resembling the color of charcoal, which is graphitic carbon created from plant material.
charcoal (plant material) - Refers to an impure form of graphitic carbon that is created as a residue when carbonaceous material is partially burned, or heated with limited access of air. It is used as a drawing material, for filtering liquids or air, and for other purposes.
charcoal black (plant material) - A grayish-black powder made from charcoal. It is sometimes used in pigments, but is considered to be of inferior quality for that purpose.
charcoal sticks - Black crayons made of charred twigs of wood, usually willow or pieces of vine, or sticks of compressed charcoal.
Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.