Author: Emil Morhardt

Roberts Professor of Envioronmental Biology at the W. M. Keck Science Department of Clalaremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges (Members of the Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles, California)

Birds in the Fog

Acorn Woodpecker, American Crow, Common Raven, Gallery Los Olivos November 2020, Raven
Image of a painting of a two flying American Crows with a gray background.
Speeding Crows, American Crows #3, 24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, $1250
Image of a painting of an American Crow flying with its ghost above a gray background.
Ghost Crow, American Crows #4, 24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, $1250
Image of a painting of two Common Ravens on a gray background.
Raven Couple, Common Ravens #4 #3, 24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, $1250
Image of a painting of three Acorn Woodpeckers diving against a gray background.
Acorn Woodpeckers Diving, Acorn Woodpeckers #2, 24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, $1250
Image of a painting of three Acorn Woodpeckers admiring the vertical flight of a fourth
Acorn Woodpecker with Admirers, 24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, $1250
Image of a painting of two Acorn Woodpeckers watching a third mysteriously ascend, painted on a gray backgroujd.
Acorn Woodpecker Ascending, Acorn Woodpecker #4, 24″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas, $1250

Birds In the Night

Acorn Woodpecker, Acrylic, Gallery Los Olivos November 2020, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret
Image of a painting of a Great Blue heron with a black background.
Great Blue Heron #4, 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas. $250
Image of a painting of a Great Blue heron with a black background.
Great Blue Heron #3, 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas. $250
Image of a painting of a Great Egret head with a black background.
Great Egret #1, 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas. $250
Image of a painting of a Great Egret head with a black background.
Great Egret #2, 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas. $250
Image of a painting of an Acorn Woodpecker rising into the left corner of the canvas, against a black background.
Acorn Woodpecker #8, 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas, $250
Image of a painting of an Acorn Woodpecker peering up from the right lower corner of the canvas, against a black background.
Acorn Woodpecker #5, 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas, $250
Image of a painting of an Acorn Woodpecker diving into the upper left corner of the canvas, against a black background.
Acorn Woodpecker #6, 12” x 12” acrylic on canvas, $250
Image of a painting of an Acorn Woodpecker clinging to the side of the canvas, against a black background.
Acorn Woodpecker #7, 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas, $250

The Squadron: A commissioned triptych of four Brown Pelicans with Santa Cruz Island in the background.

Acrylic, Brown Pelican, Commission, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz Island

 

 

The Squasdron Rt. 1500
The Squadron, right panel: 4′ x 7′ Acrylic on canvas

The Squadron Center 1500
The Squadron, center panel: 4′ x 5′ Acrylic on canvas

The Squadron Left 1500
The Squadron, left panel: 4′ x 7′ Acrylic on canvas

Gallery 113 October 2019

Acrylic, Art Galleries, Beach, Black Turnstone, Brown Pelican, Gallery Shows, Long-Billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Sanderling, shorebirds, Whimbrel, Willet

Featured Artist for October

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These are all acrylic on 1.5″ canvas, all unframed except that I made a custom frame for the picture above the little table after it was sold. I think they are quite nice either way.

I painted them all in 2019, some as recently as last week, so they are highly representative of my current output

Gallery Los Olivos, September 2019

Acrylic, Art Galleries, Beach, Gallery Los Olivos, Gallery Shows, Greater Yellowlegs, Kildeer, Marbled Godwit, Sanderling

Fur and Feathers…a show of wildlife art by Emil Morhardt and Claudia Chapman running through September 2019IMG_3141 larger