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…
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Yellow Warbler

painter Joseph Bartholomew Kidd (Scottish, 1808 - 1889)

artist after John James Audubon (American, 1785 - 1851)

1830-1833

Medium
pencil and oil on millboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 48.2 x 29.7 cm (19 x 11 11/16 in.) ; framed: 58.3 x 39.7 x 1.9 cm (22 15/16 x 15 5/8 x 3/4 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of E.J.L. Hallstrom
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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