Birds and Insects

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting showing three large crested birds standing on the branches of one tree that rises from a brown mound at the lower center. Each bird has a long curving neck, a tufted crest and a broad rounded body patterned with dense markings. The bird on the left has a body of red and brown with white star or flower motifs and long trailing tail plumes. The central bird is heart-shaped in orange and red with a white feathered chest. The bird on the right is green and patterned, with a smaller bird tucked at its side. Slender green pine-like fronds branch out at left and right, and winged insects and a butterfly hover in the upper center. The background is washed in soft yellow grading to pale blue at the edges, with wavy striations along the lower border.