Range Crest Bower Bird (Original)

Range Crest Bower Bird art by Bernard Long
Range Crest Bower Bird art by Bernard Long

Range Crest Bower Bird (Original)

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Artist: Bernard Long
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 17" x 8" (420mm x 195mm)
Date: 1983
Code: LongBowerBird

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Bernard Long.

The MacGregor's bowerbird is a medium-sized olive brown bowerbird of New Guinea's mountain forests, roughly the size and shape of a robin. The male is adorned with an erectile orange yellow crest, that is partly hidden until shown in courtship display. The unadorned female is similar to the male, but without the crest.

Superb mimics, they are known for imitating other birds, pigs, rushing water, and even human speech. The polygamous male builds a tower-like "maypole-type" bower, with a central pole of twigs surrounded by a dish of moss with raised walls approximately 1 meter in diameter. He decorates the twigs of the maypole with flowers, fruits, insects and other objects.

A detailed and colourful watercolour painting from the publication Strange and Curious Creatures, written by Rupert Oliver and illustrated by Bernard Long. 1984.
  • Artist Biography
    Bernard Long (born 1926)
    Bernard Long was an accomplished British book illustrator and comic book artist. Long was a contributor to Jack & Jill, drawing the light-hearted adventures of Fliptail the Otter in around 1970, and to the Jack & Jill and Teddy Bear annuals. He was an extraordinarily talented and reliable contributor to many Amalgamated Press/ Fleetway/ IPC titles and the Young Telegraph during the 1990s.

    He was an exceptionally good nature artist and it seems very likely he contributed to various educational magazines as well as nursery comics. It is thought that he contributed to Look and Learn in the late 1960s and back page artwork for Fun-To-Do in later years, for which information I should thank David Slinn, who recalls that Long was "quietly efficient, very reliable and, as a result, somewhat taken for granted."

    His extensive bibliography includes:
    Prehistoric Animals, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982 ISBN 0-340-27165-5)
    Prehistoric Man, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983 ISBN 0-340-28608-3)
    Dinosaurs, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983 ISBN 0-340-28609-1)
    Strange and Curious Creatures, by Rupert Oliver (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1984 ISBN 0-340-34718-X)
    Monster Mysteries, by Rupert Matthews (Hove, Wayland, 1988 ISBN 1-85210-354-X)
    Lost Treasures, by John Wright (Hove, Wayland, 1989 ISBN 1-85210-357-4)
    Victorian Children, by Anne Steel (Hove, Wayland, 1989 ISBN 1-85210-816-9)
    Egyptian Farmers, by Jim Kerr (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 1-85210-906-8)
    The First Settlements, by Rupert Matthews (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 1-85210-769-3)[1]
    Greek Cities, by Barry Steel (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 1-85210-778-2)
    Plague and Fire, by Rhoda Nottridge (Hove, Wayland, 1990 ISBN 0-7502-0048-0)
    Forests, by Michael Chinery (London, Kingfisher, 1992 ISBN 0-86272-915-7)
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