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Bright Day - Atlantic Puffins
Bright Day - Atlantic Puffins

Bright Day - Atlantic Puffins

Artist/Maker Robert Bateman Canada, born 1930
Date1977
Mediumacrylic on board
Dimensionsimage: 16 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (41.9 × 59.7 cm) frame: 28 3/4 × 34 3/4 × 2 in. (73 × 88.3 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Florence Lamb, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW1991.052
ClassificationsPainting
Subject
SignedSigned lower right
On View
Not on view
DescriptionA group of 6 puffins sit on a rocky ledge next to the ocean. The sun beats down on the blue water. Some puffins turn to face the left, others look out across the water.
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