The 2025 Birds in Art touring exhibition…September 24, 2024 Greetings once again, I have recently returned from the opening of the internationally-acclaimed 49th annual 2024 Birds in Art exhibition at the Woodson Art Museum. This exhibition will continue at the Woodson through December 1, 2025 at which time a curated selection of about 60 pieces of artwork from the full exhibition will begin to travel to museums across the country during 2025 as the Birds in Art touring exhibition.
I am honored that my oil painting, Roseate Fly-by, has been selected for this 2025 Birds in Art touring exhibition, which offers the opportunity for more people to see this powerful exhibition at a museum near where they live. The venues scheduled for the tour are: • Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, from January 1 – May 11, 2025. I am pleased that the Michelson Museum of Art in Marshall, Texas, is among the venues for this exhibition as my painting, Roseate Fly-by, depicting a family of roseate spoonbills in flight was created from my field studies along the Gulf of Mexico just south of there. If you have any questions or comments, I’d love to hear from you. Best, Timothy
The National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions exhibition…August 17, 2024 Greetings, once more, I am thrilled to announce that I am in the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s Western Visions exhibition, which is the largest and longest-running fundraiser and one of the signature events of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival. Top contemporary wildlife artists – and Fine Art collectors – from around the world will be congregating at the Museum in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The week’s events, offered at the Museum’s award-winning facility across from the National Elk Refuge, draw an international crowd to this critically-acclaimed gathering. In this exhibition, I will have an original oil painting entitled, Les deux ibis, (oil on Belgian linen, archivally mounted on birch panel, 15 x 20 inches) This painting celebrates two white ibises feeding in a tidal lagoon along the Gulf of Mexico. The title pays tribute to the strong French Canadian, known as Cajun, influence in this region. The composition for the painting was based on two drawings I selected from my field studies along the Gulf of Mexico, to depict two interacting white ibis as they feed in the shallows of a tidal lagoon.
White ibises are medium-sized wading birds, with white plumage and black wing-tips only visible in flight, with the typical downward-curving bill of the ibis family. They have a bright red-orange bill, the same color as their long legs. The ibis uses its long, thin bill to probe for food in water or mud. It is usually difficult to tell males from females, but typically males are significantly larger and heavier than females and have longer and stouter bills. The Western Visions exhibition runs from September 7th – 29th, 2024. The Western Visions sale will occur on Thursday, September 12, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. and, for those unable to attend in person, will include an online portal to enter the “intent to purchase” lottery for all artworks. For more information, see the Museum’s website at: If you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear from you. Best, Timothy
The 49th annual Birds in Art exhitition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum…August 1, 2024 Greetings once again, I am pleased to announce that my next exhibition will be the internationally-acclaimed, Birds in Art, at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. Since 1976, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum has organized Birds in Art annually, seeking to present the very best contemporary artistic interpretations of birds and related subject matter. Artwork from 107 artists invited from throughout the world is included in this 49th annual 2024 Birds in Art exhibition. In this exhibition, I will have an original oil painting entitled, Roseate Fly-by (oil on Belgian linen archivally mounted on birch panel, 27 x 36 inches).
This oil painting celebrates the aerodynamics of flight depicted in a family of roseate spoonbill along the Gulf of Mexico. Roseate spoonbills are wading birds of the ibis and spoonbill family, Threskiornithidae, who’s pink color, like the American flamingo, is due to the ingestion of carotenoid pigment in their diet. Since it is difficult to capture much more than a gesture when drawing birds in flight, I studied the anatomy of roseate spoonbill specimens at several museums of natural history to enable me to sort out the details. But on a deeper level, this painting explores the subtilties and importance of design and composition. The painting was based on several preparatory drawings of adult and juvenile spoonbills selected from my field studies, which were combined to create its composition. In painting, composition is very important as it determines how the viewers’ eyes will see the various elements, keeping them engaged in a rhythmical journey throughout the painting. Although this appears to be a close-knit family group of spoonbills, it is doubtful that they have ever met each other as each were studied in different locations at different times. Birds in Art 2024 will open to the public on September 5, 2024, and run through December 1, 2024. More information can be obtained through the Museum’s website at: If you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear from you. Best, Timothy
The Menil Collection…May 14, 2024 Greetings, once again, I am honored to announce that I have been invited to deliver a lecture entitled, Traditional Graphite Drawing Materials and Techniques, at the prestigious Menil Collection’s Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas, in June. My presentation will be part of a week-long workshop for Museum curators selected from around the world and entitled, Inside Drawings: A Workshop on the Materiality of Unique Works on Paper from June 3-7, 2024. This is supported by the Menil Collection, Houston. This workshop is made possible with support from the Getty Foundation through The Paper Project initiative. This weeklong workshop will utilize the collection and staff of the Menil, involving outside experts in the fields of paper conservation, papermaking history, materials study, conservation imaging and science, and curation of drawings. The physical components of drawing practices in a focused manner will be addressed and the workshop is intended to give curators of major drawing collections a broader understanding of unique works on paper for the purpose of better defining, researching, and interpreting drawings. The Menil Collection is a major art museum with a campus spanning 30 acres in the heart of Houston, Texas. Making art accessible is vital to the Menil’s mission and its philosophy is to foster each visitor’s direct, personal encounter with works in the collection. The display of carefully chosen artworks in serene settings are hallmarks of the museum. The Menil Drawing Institute at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas is dedicated to the study and display of drawing, with a focus on scholarship and raising public appreciation of the medium—from early drawings to modern and contemporary works. If you have any comments or questions, I would love to hear from you. Best, Timothy
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