Joseph Bartholomew Kidd

Scottish, 1808 - 1889

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Scottish painter

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Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, Black-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker, 1831/1833, pencil and oil on canvas, Gift of E.J.L. Hallstrom, 1951.9.6

Black-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker

Joseph Bartholomew Kidd · 1831/1833 · pencil and oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1951.9.6

Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, Sharp-Tailed Finch, 1831/1833, pencil and oil on millboard, Gift of E.J.L. Hallstrom, 1951.9.5

Sharp-Tailed Finch

Joseph Bartholomew Kidd · 1831/1833 · pencil and oil on millboard ·  Accession ID  1951.9.5

Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, Orchard Oriole, 1830/1832, pencil and oil on canvas, Gift of E.J.L. Hallstrom, 1951.9.7

Orchard Oriole

Joseph Bartholomew Kidd · 1830/1832 · pencil and oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1951.9.7

A branch with long, bell-shaped golden-yellow flowers and dark green leaves drops from near the top right corner of this vertical painting. Four clusters of four or five blossoms each are spaced along two branches that fork from the main stem. Each flower is russet-red or burnt orange on the outside of the long petals, which flare to reveal a vivid yellow interior. Two yellow birds perching among the flowers are easily overlooked at first glance. The birds are small, about the size of each cluster of blossoms. They each stand on a branching stem and both face inward. The branches are outlined against a hazy blue sky with soft billowing clouds.
Joseph Bartholomew Kidd, Yellow Warbler, 1830-1833, pencil and oil on millboard, Gift of E.J.L. Hallstrom, 1951.9.8

Yellow Warbler

Joseph Bartholomew Kidd · 1830-1833 · pencil and oil on millboard ·  Accession ID  1951.9.8

Bibliography

1969

  • Winters, Mary Tyler. The Oil Paintings of the Audubon Family and Related Artists. Princeton, forthcoming.

1982

  • Reynolds, Gary A. John James Audubon and His Sons. Exh. cat. Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, 1982:43-47.

1992

  • Hayes, John. British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 139.