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Macaws. Pixabay. Photo, Amy Irizarry.
the power of philosophy floats through my head . . .
light like a feather, heavy as lead.
—Bob Marley, Misty Morning, 1978
Katagami, Feathers; Japan; mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu). Smithsonian Design Museum, Cooper Hewitt, Gift of Helen Snyder; 1976-103-27.
Nazca Culture, Complete Feather Tunic, ca. 600 AD. Camelid fibres with applied feathers. 65 7/8" x 43 5/16". (naz0003). Paul Hughes Fine Arts.
Unknown artist, Feather fan, 20th–21st century. Feathers, leather, beads. The Director’s Discretionary Purchase Fund, 2004.74.1. Photo courtesy, Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528), Left Wing of a Blue Roller, ca. 1500 or 1512. Watercolor and gouache on vellum, heightened with white. 7 3/4" x 7 7/8". (Albertina, Vienna).
Ramsay Richard Reinagle, (British, 1775–1862). An Ornithologist, Possibly John Latham, 1802. Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, b1981.25.517.
R.C. McKellar, Microscopic barbules on tail feathers, most likely of a non-avian theropod; a group of dinosaurs including velociraptors and tyrannosaurs. Image courtesy, R. McKellar, Royal Saskatchewan Museum.
Harvey Smith (American, 1906–1994), manufactured by Piazza Prints Inc., New York, NY, (founded 1946), Peacock Feathers, 19651968. Wallcoverings, screen printed on vinyl. 71 7/8" x 29 15/16". Gift of Piazza Prints, Inc. 1969-56-3, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Image © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Detail, Samuel Gragg (American, 1772–1855). Side chair, Boston, Massachusetts, 1808–1812. Birch, white oak, and beech. 34 3/8" x 18 1/8", 25 3/8" (diam.). Winterthur Museum; Museum purchase (1961.0321), Courtesy Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Iceland or Jer Falcon, 1873, from the series Birds of America, Plate No. 366. Hand-colored engraving and aquatint on paper. Image courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove in Audubon, Pennsylvania; the Montgomery County Audubon Collection; and Zebra Publishing.
David Claypoole Johnston (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1799–1865 Dorchester, Massachusetts), A New Method of Macarony Making, as Practised at Boston, 1830. Lithograph. (image): 12 1/16" x 10"; (sheet): 14 1/8" x 11". The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924, 24.90.1393.
The 1-2-3 Sesame Street float heads down the parade route during The 97th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. In 2023, Sesame Street is celebrating its 47th appearance in the Parade, November 23, 2023. Photo: Gordon Donovan / Alamy.
Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, “Prince Ivan and the Firebird,” illustration for Russian Fairy Story, The Firebird, published in Saint Petersburg, 1901. Faithful photographic reproduction of color lithograph {{pd-Art}}.
Genty (publisher), A Cheyère (printed by), L’Epouse veut, l’Epoux se tait, November 1826, hand-colored lithograph, sheet: 11 1/2" x 9 1/4". © The Trustees of the British Museum, 2011,7070.2. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (cc by-nc-sa 4.0) license.
Marlene Dietrich in Stage Fright, Director Alfred Hitchcock, 1950. Photo: cineclassico / Alamy.
Democracy! Bah!
When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
—Allen Ginsberg
At bmw’s Leipzig factory, the mini Countryman moves through the paintshop process. Before the bodywork is painted, emu feathers are used to gently remove any remaining dust or contaminants from the surface, ensuring a flawless finish. Emu feathers have the perfect properties for dusting cars; no other material, man-made or natural, does the job as well. The feathers are picked up after being shed by the emus and last for 15 years on the production line. Credit: Alastair Philip Wiper.
Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae), on the feed, Australia, Wilsons Promontory National Park. Photo: blickwinkel / D. u. M. Sheldon / Alamy.
Unknown artist, 18th century, after John Collet, ca. 1725–1780. The Feathered Fair in a Fright, undated. Mezzotint on medium, smooth, cream wove paper. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, b1978.43.204.
Donn Arden, Photograph of dancers marching in striped costumes with top hats, Paris, France, ca. 1950s. Donn Arden Papers, 1910s–1990s. ms-00425. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fished fly. Tied by Vernon S. “Pete” Hidy, 1938–41. Hook length 1/2" from the bend to the tip of the eye. Photo: Lance Hidy.
Feathers are the canvas, the brushstrokes of artistry, and the fish are the critics.
–Anonymous
Artist Unknown, Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961. Photograph film still. © Paramount Pictures / Bridgeman Images.
