WELCOME TO THE AVOCETS

© The Artist's Estate

WELCOME TO THE AVOCETS 1948

Gertrude Hermes (1901 – 1983)

Details

Dimension
34.5 DIAM
Media
LITHOGRAPH
Accession number
P2833

Summary

The avocet is a distinctively-patterned black and white wader with a long up-curved beak. It is the emblem of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The artist was moved when these birds returned to their East Anglian haunts in the 1940s.