Birds Snake and Owl

Description for blind and low-vision visitors

A horizontal painting crowded with stylized birds and foliage against a luminous pale-yellow background streaked with wavy horizontal lines suggesting ground and sky. At center stands a tall white wading bird with a long sinuous neck doubling back, a slender orange beak and thin legs, its body finely outlined. Behind and around it twist serpentine necks ending in additional bird heads. In the upper left a round-eyed owl with tufted ears perches among the bare branches of a dark tree whose trunk runs down the left edge. At lower left a large fan-shaped bird displays plumage dotted with red and gray eye-spots over a clustered tail. On the right a peacock-like bird spreads a broad rounded tail patterned with blue and orange ocelli. In the upper right a leafy green tree fills the corner. The palette is dominated by golden yellow with accents of red, lavender, blue and gray throughout the densely patterned feathers.