Racket-tail kingfisher

"Racket-tail kingfisher" is watercolour or gouache by Marian Ellis Rowan, dated 1917.

A lively study of Racket-tail kingfisher, pairing close observation of birdlife with Rowan’s decorative sense of colour and form.

On onlly.art this reproduction sits within the Marian Ellis Rowan Birds And Wildlife collection. Watercolour or gouache · 1917. The work is associated with the Marian Ellis Rowan collection.

Historical background, 1917: Posters, magazines, and illustrated books were major ways for the public to meet new art and design. Dada and Surrealism followed the First World War, the Bauhaus school was founded in 1919, and Art Deco became the fashionable decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Marian Ellis Rowan was an artist associated with Australian (1848–1922).

This page also draws on collection-level information related to Marian Ellis Rowan. 703 reproductions by this artist are available on onlly.art.