Whether your pet is fish or fowl, furry or amphibious, be a responsible pet owner during National Pet Week and take your pet to the vet.This lovely lady and her feathered friend are made by folk artist Peter Oliver Foss.
Take Your Pet to the Vet
Whether your pet is fish or fowl, furry or amphibious, be a responsible pet owner during National Pet Week and take your pet to the vet.This lovely lady and her feathered friend are made by folk artist Peter Oliver Foss.
According to his family history, Peter Oliver Foss was a talented songwriter, inventor, and painter. Foss sought his early fortune in the California gold mines after immigrating from Norway in the 1880s. Disappointed in this endeavor, he settled in Massachusetts to work as a house painter.
Woman with Cockatoo is one of approximately a dozen completed canvases that were found in the family attic in 1982. Foss never sold his works and rarely signed them.
Source: Lynda Roscoe Hartigan. Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C. and London: National Museum of American Art with the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990).
Pictured: Peter Oliver Foss, 1865–1932, Woman with Cockatoo, about 1895–1917, oil, 28 x 24 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson.