"DARK GYRFALCON" |
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950 s/n Paper
25 3/8" x 16 3/4"
$199
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"The
gyrfalcon is the king of the falcons and is much sought after
by the falconers of the world. In this
painting, I wanted to indicate a lonely feeling, thus I have
the bird looking a bit wistful at the bottom of a large misty
place." Robert Bateman |
"DESCENDING
SHADOWS" |
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s/n Paper
21 1/4" x 28 1/2"
$399 |
"As
a culture, wolves live communally and teach their young.
They are a culture whose lifestyle has evolved in deep
forests in need of those vast undisturbed tracts of old trees
in order to survive, but the destruction of the forests in the
past few decades has far surpassed that of previous centuries. Let us hope that we can find alternative sources of fiber
and protect these large areas of old growth forests and the
wolves which inhabit them." Robert Bateman |
"DIPPER
BY THE WATERFALL" |
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950
s/n Paper
13 1/4" x 21 3/4"
$599 |
"I
put this dipper into this picture because dippers are almost
the spirit of little woodland rivers and streams. They are completely at home in, around and under the
waterfalls. They dash into areas where
one would expect them to be swept to their deaths in search
of insect larvae." Robert Bateman |
"DISTANT
DANGER" - RACCOON |
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1600 s/n Paper
9 3/4" x 16 1/4"
$199 |
"Here
I have shown a raccoon on alert to a potential threat. It may need to fight or it may need to flee, but more
likely it will go on with its business of poking along the stream
edge looking for frogs or crayfish." Robert
Bateman |
"DOWN
FOR A DRINK" - MOURNING DOVE |
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950
s/n Paper
8 3/4" x 19 1/2"
$235.00 |
"The
mourning dove is one of the commonest and most widespread birds
in the inhabited part of North America. Although
its cousin, the passenger pigeon, was pushed to extinction,
the mourning dove has thrived. I am sure
that there are more of them now than there were before the white
man came to this continent." Robert Bateman |
"DOWNY
WOODPECKER ON GOLDENROD " |
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950 s/n Paper Edition
16 1/2" x 9 1/2"
$1695 |
"Huddled
in the blowing snow, the male downy woodpecker has found a morsel
of food in a goldenrod ." Robert Bateman |
"DOZING
LYNX" - POSTER |
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Open Paper Edition
24" x 36"
$25.00
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"My
painting shows the lynx in a late evening’s tranquil moment
at the entrance to a cave. It is at peace
- lightly dozing prior to its night hunt." Robert
Bateman |
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"DEFENSIVE
STAND" |
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120 s/n Canvas Giclee
31" x 31"
$950 |
Robert Bateman |
"DIK
DIKS" |
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"I
have always been attracted to intimate scenes - a few square
yards of seemingly ordinary field, forest floor or scrubland,
which are filled with variety and complexity if you look carefully. The dik-diks are small, the smallest of African antelopes,
only about twelve inches high. You can
see the scale of the painting by the relative size of the elephant
dung, a typical feature of dik-dik habitat, as are the different
grasses and bushes and the volcanic rock. The dik-diks are
attractive animals to look at and to paint. They resemble tremendously condensed high-strung racehorses.
Every muscle shows, and their anatomy
and bone structure seem very tight and interlocked. They are exceptionally nervous and you usually see them
either in a freeze position or else springing out of sight."
Robert Bateman |
"DISPUTE
OVER PREY" |
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950
s/n Paper
20 5/8" x 31"
$299 |
"The
scene I’ve recreated here is very common; the lioness makes
the kill, and the male moves in to commence the feast. A lioness is used to putting a male in his place in disputes
over protecting cubs or a fresh kill. It’s
mostly bluff and bluster, but in the case of feeding, she usually
lets him get his way." Robert Bateman |
"DOUGLAS
FIR AND RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD" |
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950 s/n Paper
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"Weightless
as a sunbeam and glowing like an ember, the rufous hummingbird
darts into view, disappearing as soon as you blink. Especially drawn to red flowers like a tiny bull charging
a matador’s cape, he rushes from one bloom to another." Robert
Bateman |
"DAYLILIES
AND DRAGONFLIES" |
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Paper |
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9
7/8" x 23 3/4" |
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Lithograph |
2
1/2" x 6" |
"The
graceful curves of the daylilies interlaced with wild grasses
and set against the still waters of the pond reminded me of
a Japanese screen. The dragonflies were
using the daylilies as vantage points to watch for insect prey. They always seemed to me like noble warriors of the air…
slender, alert and agile."
Robert Bateman |
"DOZING
LYNX" |
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950 s/n
Paper Edition
22 " x 29 1/4"
Giclee Canvas 30"X40" 180 S/N $1399
Giclee Canvas 36"X48" 50 S/N $2295 |
"My
painting shows the lynx in a late evening’s tranquil moment
at the entrance to a cave. It is at peace
- lightly dozing prior to its night hunt." Robert
Bateman |
"DRIFTWOOD
PERCH" - STRIPED SWALLOWS |
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950 s/n
Paper
13 1/2" x 20"
$225
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"The
striped swallow is a bird found in Africa, but they are like
swallows the world over. They are trim
and streamlined, and they seem to be in motion even when at
rest. Even though they seem delicate,
they appear hard, almost as if they were sculpted out of metal. This perch appealed to me because of its texture, its
sculptural shapes and the way it echoes the form of the birds."
Robert Bateman |
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