Skip to main content
Skip to main content
Collections Menu
The Peacock and the Crane
The Peacock and the Crane

The Peacock and the Crane

Artist/Maker Emily Boespflug
Date2016
MediumCharcoal on Board
Dimensionsimage: 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineThe National Museum of Wildlife Art Collection
Object numberM2016.044.004
ClassificationsDrawing
On View
Not on view
Collections
  • Women Artists Highlights
DescriptionA peacock (male because of large feather plumage) stands on the left with a sandhill crane on the right. Three sandhill cranes are in flight in the background.
1 of 25 works commissioned by the Museum for the 2016 exhibition 25 Fables: Aesop's Animals Illustrated
The Fox and the Crow
Jocelyn Wasson
2016
The Dog and the Wolf
Haley Badenhop
2016
The Mice in Council
Greta Gretzinger
2016
The Foxes and the River
Erin C. O'Connor
2016
Hooping Crane
John James Audubon
1835
Tiger Observing Cranes
Jean-Leon Gérôme (and Studio)
c. 1890
Pantheon
David Everett
2002