Johannes Nevala, born 1966 in Finland, is an artist who paints birds, especially on the seashore where he captures the birds in oils, watercolors and other techniques. His art is inspired by the Nordic light and the artists von Wright, Bruno Liljefors, Gunnar Brusewitz and Lars Jonsson, who specialized in nature and birds.
Nevala debuted in 1993 with a watercolor exhibition on Gotland. [1] In 1998, Nevala showed an exhibition, Birds in Light, at Galleri Ridelius in Visby. [2] This exhibition, which included both watercolors and oil paintings, [3] shaped his artistry since then. Nevala has participated in several international exhibitions. In 2003, he became one of the first artists from the Nordic countries, and the first from Finland [4] [5] to be accepted into the Birds in Art exhibition, organized by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. [6] The following year he participated in the exhibition IV Centuries of Birds, organized by Clarke Galleries, which was held in several places, including in New York City, Stowe, and Palm Beach. [7] This was followed by exhibitions at Mall Galleries, London [8] and Kunsthuis van het Oosten, the Netherlands. 2011 he held a major exhibition at Tobaksmagasinet, Jakobstads Museum, in Finland. [9] [10] [11] This was followed by other exhibitions in Finland; Luontotalo Arkki, Satakunnan Museum; [12] Galleri Karaija, Inkoo [13] and Gumbostrand konst & form, Sibbo. [14] [15] In 2021 he returned for the 10th time to Woodson Art Museum's Birds in Art [16] [17] with his work Persona. [18] The painting was selected for display at the following art venues in the US: [19]
Jasper Francis Cropsey was an American architect and artist. He is best known for his Hudson River School landscape paintings.
The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is located in Wausau, Wisconsin. It is best known for its annual "Birds in Art" exhibition, which exhibits contemporary artistic representations of birds. The annual exhibition has been held beginning the week after Labor Day since the museum's founding in 1976. The museum stands on a 4-acre (16,000 m2) estate in a 1931 English Tudor style house previously owned by Alice Woodson Forester and John E. Forester. The Foresters donated their home in 1973 and the museum opened in September 1976.
Deborah Kay Butterfield is an American sculptor. Along with her artist-husband John Buck, she divides her time between a farm in Bozeman, Montana, and studio space in Hawaii. She is known for her sculptures of horses made from found objects, like metal, and especially pieces of wood.
Don Kloetzke is an American painter, known for his wildlife art portraits, he has also painted landscapes, still life, World War II aircraft along with emotional Green Bay Packer fan themes.
The Marathon County Historical Museum is museum located in Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located in the Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey House, a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The house is a significant example of Classical Revival architecture.
Melanie Ann (Huckaby) Fain, is a printmaker specializing in wildlife art. The Texas artist is best known for her etchings and watercolors featuring birds, botanicals, insects, and sporting themes.
Carl Brenders is a naturalist and painter, born near Antwerp, Belgium. The painter is most famous for his detailed and lifelike paintings of wildlife.
Terry Isaac was an American painter from Salem, Oregon who was known for his realism paintings of wildlife. In 2007, he moved to Canada.
Daniel Smith is an American painter who resides in Bozeman, Montana. He is known best for his realistic wildlife portrayals.
Paul Margocsy is an Australian artist, known primarily for his watercolour paintings of Australian birds. Though he has never received any formal art training, he is internationally recognised as one of Australia's best wildlife artists. His art is collected both in Australia and internationally alike.
Walter William Ferguson was born in New York City in 1930 and died in 2015. He received his formal art training under scholarship at Yale School of Fine Arts and Pratt Institute. He has exhibited widely in Israel and abroad and his paintings are in many private collections.
Richard Sloan (1935–2007) was an American artist. He painted wildlife in Arizona and in rainforests.
W. Stanley "Sandy" Proctor is an American painter and sculptor in Florida who makes bronze figures. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2006.
Christopher Andrew Rose is a British wildlife artist. He is member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) since 1983.
Jay Howard Matternes is an American painter, paleoartist, and naturalist. His work recreating early mammals from the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene epochs was widely published in the 1950s and '60s, including in the Time Life Books series. His work is in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Natural History. His restorations frequently appeared in magazines such as National Geographic and Time, making him among the best-known scientific illustrators. Six Matternes murals were removed during renovations from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in 2014, and several are planned to be reinstalled when renovations to the museum's Fossil Hall are scheduled to be completed in 2019.
Hamiduzzaman Khan is a Bangladeshi artist and sculptor. He is well known as a sculptor for his theme and form oriented sculptures, in particular sculptures on the theme of Bangladesh War of Liberation and birds. Following the introduction of modernity in sculpture in Bangladesh in the 1950s by Novera Ahmed, Khan was instrumental in the popularization of sculpture in the country through his distinctive form of modernity. Influenced by Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore, his works manifest expressionism, minimalism, and a constant exploration of purity of material. He worked on both figurative as well as abstract genres.
John Philip Busby was an influential artist whose close observation of nature and dedication to drawing from life inspired several generations of leading wildlife artists.
Lars Gunnar Torbjörn Kullänger-Axelman was a Swedish television producer, director and writer.
The Newington-Cropsey Foundation (NCF) is a nonprofit private organization based in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. The foundation's aim is to maintain and preserve the works of Jasper Cropsey and the art movement he was a part of, the Hudson River School. The foundation also promotes representational painting and sculpture.
Elizabeth Gray, also known as Ben Venuto and Emmie Gee, was an artist specialising in sporting and wildlife pictures.
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