Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.
This bird is drunk. Not Uncle-Steve-at-Thanksgiving-dinner drunk, mind you – rather, it’s aesthetically intoxicated, artfully sotted. The color column, as striking as it is, tones down this bird’s extra-ness. The male golden pheasant looks like Beethoven costumed as an Egyptian pharaoh for the Met Gala….but with high-key color. Or a fly fishing dry fly, but one that would be too gaudy for the fish to believe.
Appropriately, all that color is referenced in the bird’s scientific binomial, Chrysolophus pictus, which translates from the Greek and Latin as “painted golden crest.” Painted, indeed.
The bird is also known as the Chinese pheasant, an alternative common name that points to the bird’s native range in the mountains and valleys of western China, where they forage in forest shrubland and bamboo stands. They’re ground feeders with diets dominated by flowers, leaves, and young plants, including bamboo shoots, and they augment this vegetable-heavy menu with spiders and insects. Golden pheasants are loathe to fly unless they’re jump-flapping up to their nightly roosts in tree branches, and when pursued by predators, they typically rely on their impressive running ability and the dense undergrowth in their preferred habitat.
Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).
Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.
Unlimited edition. 18 x 24 inch, museum-quality poster on matte paper.
This bird is drunk. Not Uncle-Steve-at-Thanksgiving-dinner drunk, mind you – rather, it’s aesthetically intoxicated, artfully sotted. The color column, as striking as it is, tones down this bird’s extra-ness. The male golden pheasant looks like Beethoven costumed as an Egyptian pharaoh for the Met Gala….but with high-key color. Or a fly fishing dry fly, but one that would be too gaudy for the fish to believe.
Appropriately, all that color is referenced in the bird’s scientific binomial, Chrysolophus pictus, which translates from the Greek and Latin as “painted golden crest.” Painted, indeed.
The bird is also known as the Chinese pheasant, an alternative common name that points to the bird’s native range in the mountains and valleys of western China, where they forage in forest shrubland and bamboo stands. They’re ground feeders with diets dominated by flowers, leaves, and young plants, including bamboo shoots, and they augment this vegetable-heavy menu with spiders and insects. Golden pheasants are loathe to fly unless they’re jump-flapping up to their nightly roosts in tree branches, and when pursued by predators, they typically rely on their impressive running ability and the dense undergrowth in their preferred habitat.
Note: These archival poster prints feature rich, appealing colors. I encourage customers to take care in handling them until they are framed/protected for display; the darker colors on the matte paper can be scratched. They ship rolled, so customers need to flatten them before framing (or have their framer do so).
Charitable Sales Model: Whenever one of these poster prints is purchased, a charitable contribution equal to 10% of the print’s cost (or $3.60) is made to a nonprofit working to tackle environmental or social challenges. Read more about my charitable sales model here.
