It’s #BirdDay on a #Caturday so here’s #Audubon’s Cat-Bird:
Robert Havell after John James Audubon
Cat Bird, 1832
The Birds of America: Plate 128
https://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/cat-bird
🆔 Gray Catbird (now Dumetella carolinensis)
#BirdsInArt

For #Caturday :
#Kitten Appliqué Quilt
Possibly Kentucky, USA, 1941-50
Cotton, including muslin feed sacks, with cotton embroidery; 83 × 67"
American Folk Art Museum 1987.8.1: https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/objects/236/kitten-applique-quilt
#CatsInArt

René #Lalique was born #OTD (6 Apr 1860 - 1 May 1945), and it’s also #Caturday, so…

Lalique ‘Cats’ choker, France, c.1906–8
Rock crystal, gold, diamonds
H. 5.4 x W 33.8 cm
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/works_museu/cats-choker/

#Caturday :
Samuel F.B. Morse (American, 1791-1872)
Little Miss Hone, 1824
Oil on canvas mounted on plywood
On display at MFA Boston
“Best known for inventing the telegraph & the Morse code, Samuel Morse began his career as a painter.
Echoing sentimental English pictures of children, Morse shows her rehearsing her future role as a mother.
‘I shall paint her with a cat set up in her lap like a baby, with a towel under its chin, & a cap on its head, & she employed in feeding it with a spoon.’”

#Caturday:
Ditmar-Urbach for Erphila, Czechoslovakia
Handled Cat Pitcher, c.1930s
glazed and hand painted ceramic, 7.75 x 7.75 x 4.25 in.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/erphila-art-deco-ceramic-cat-pitcher-by-ditmar-ur-94-c-a154a2eac5

#Caturday:
Walter von Nessen (American, born Germany, 1889-1943)
Chase Brass & Copper Co., Inc., Waterbury, CT
#Cat Bookends, 1930-5
Copper-plated alloy, 7 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (18.8 x 11.5 x 6.4 cm)
Brooklyn Museum 1994.156.4,5
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2265
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2285

#Caturday clowder:
Tomoo Inagaki (1902-1980)
Cat's Parade
mid 20th century
color woodcut, 57.7 x 43.1 cm
https://ukiyo-e.org/image/famsf/5049161401700089
#JapaneseArt
#CatsInArt

Another #Caturday classic from today’s visit:
Arnold Lobel (American, 1933-87)
On the Balcony (from Whiskers & Rhymes), 1985
Watercolor on paper
now on display at “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustration” exhibition at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
#CatsInArt

#Caturday classic: Theodor Seuss Geisel ‘Dr. Seuss' (American, 1904-91)
The Cat in the Hat, c. 1970
Crayon on paper
now on display at “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustration” exhibition at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
#CatsInArt #DrSeuss

For #Caturday:
#Cat Jug, c. 1670 - 1710
Lead-glazed earthenware, H 14.2 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge C.234-1928: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73378
#CatsInArt