 | The Peacock at left in The Land Birds set is one of Schmucker's most beautiful images. He used gouache, watercolor, and gold and black ink over pencil to create his paintings. The peacock motif was made popular by Whistler's Peacock Room, 1876-77. American artist James McNeill Whistler had a fascination with Japanese art, and brought many of his paintings and prints to England. His role in English appreciation of Japanese art culminated in his work on the Peacock Room for Frederick Leyland. Will Bradley and Louis Rhead, two early American Art Nouveau artists, designed posters with stylized peacocks in 1895-96. The other paintings in The Land Birds are a woman's head with a raven, owl, stork, parrot, and turkey. The Land Birds paintings may have been meant to be reproduced as fine-art chromolithographic prints and not as smaller-format postcards. |
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