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<titleproper>John R. Quinn Paintings of South American Birds<date type="span">1970</date></titleproper>
<author>Ewell Sale Stewart Library</author>
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<publisher>Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia</publisher>
<date>2002</date>
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<titleproper>John R. Quinn Paintings of South American Birds</titleproper>
<publisher>Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia</publisher>
<date>12/17/2002</date><sponsor>Cataloging and digitizing made possible by The Getty Grant Program.  </sponsor>
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<unitid>Coll. 730</unitid>
<origination>Quinn, John R.</origination>
<unittitle label="Title">Paintings of South American birds<unitdate type="inclusive">ca. 1968-1970</unitdate></unittitle>
<physdesc label="Extent">30 paintings</physdesc>
<repository label="Repository">
Ewell Sale Stewart Library, Academy of Natural Sciences
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<addressline>1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway</addressline>
<addressline>Philadelphia, PA 19103-1101</addressline> 
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<abstract label="Abstract">John R. Quinn, 1938-, artist and naturalist, was an Academy employee in the exhibits department.  Quinn spent the month of March in 1968 working on illustrations for De Schaunsee's <title render="italic">A guide to The Birds of South America. </title>The collection contains thirty acrylic paintings of South American birds: nineteen in color, eleven in black white. The figures were done from study skins in the Academy's collection pluslive birds mist-netted in Trinidad, as well as notes and sketches supplied by Don Eckelberry on various South American species.  
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<bioghist><p>John R. Quinn, 1938-, artist and naturalist, was an Academy employee in the exhibits department.  Quinn spent March of 1968 in Trinidad and Tobago working on illustrations for De Schaunsee's <title render="italic">A guide to The Birds of South America. </title></p></bioghist>

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<p>The collection contains thirty acrylic paintings of South American birds: nineteen in color, eleven in black white. The figures were done from study skins in the Academy's collection plus live birds mist-netted in Trinidad, as well as notes and sketches supplied by Don Eckelberry on various South American species.  The paintings were created for Rodolphe Meyer De Schauensee's <title render="italic">A guide to The Birds of South America </title>(published for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Livingston Pub. Co. 1970). 
Much of the vegetation shown in the various plates was done from live stuff collected in Trinidad and Tobaggo during Quinn's visit in 1968. </p>
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<arrangement><p>Numbered as plates in <title render="italic">A Guide to the Birds of South America. </title> </p>
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<controlaccess><subject source="lcsh" encodinganalog="650">Birds--South America</subject>
<genreform encodinganalog="655" source="gmgpc">Ornithological illustrations--20th century</genreform><genreform source="gmgpc" encodinganalog="655">Acrylic paintings--20th century</genreform>
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<p>Cite as: Collection 730.  John R. Quinn Paintings of South American birds.  Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.  </p>
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Finding aid created by Mary Hammer, 2002.
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<c01><did><unitid>1</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Tinamous, guans </title>/ <unitdate>John R. Quinn.  </unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>58 x 46 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  sickle-winged guan, pale-winged trumpeter, blue-throated piping-guan, bare-faced curassow, greater rhea, red-legged seiema, red-winged tinamou, white-tipped dove, puna tinamou, white-throated tinamou, spotted nothura, stripe-faced wood-quail, variegated tinamou.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>2</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Waterfowl, herons, crakes </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  paint-billed crake, ocellated crake, ashy-headed goose, stripe-backed bittern, puna plover, crested duck, white-faced tree duck, brazilian duck, whistling heron, torrent duck, green ibis, masked duck.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>3</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Waders </title>/ John R. Quinn.   <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>70 x 55 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  hoatzin, sunbittern, ringed teal, andean flamingo, wattled jacana, chestnut-bellied heron, gray-necked wood-rail, buff-necked ibis, azure gallinule.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>4</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Parrots and doves </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>72 x 55 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  mountain parakeet, red-fronted macaw, scarlet-shouldered parrotlet, mitred parakeet, black-eared parrot, black-headed parrot, turquoise-fronted parrot, blue-bellied parrot, orange-cheeked parrot, picazuro pigeon, maroon-chested ground-dove.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>5</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Hummingbirds </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>71 x 50 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  saw-billed hermit, green-fronted lancebill, white-vented plumeleteer, racket-tailed coquette, violet-headed hummingbird, ruby-topaz hummingbird, white-necked jacobin, black-throated mango, black jacobin, amethyst woodstar, short-tailed woodstar, gray-breasted sabrewing, wedge-billed hummingbird, gray-bellied comet.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>6</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Hummingbirds </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  rainbow starfrontlet, marvelous spatuletail, horned sungem, gould's jewelfront, colorful puffleg, black-breasted hillstar, rufous-breasted hermit, hooded visorbearer, booted racket-tail, swallow-tailed hummingbird, brazilian ruby.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>7</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Hummingbirds </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  bearded mountaineer, bronze-tailed comet, fiery-tailed awlbill, spot-throated hummingbird, red-tailed comet, black-breasted plovercrest, oasis hummingbird, slender-tailed woodstar, peruvian sheartail, blossomcrown, blue-tufted starthroat, white-bellied woodstar, black-hooded sunbeam.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>8</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Hummingbirds, Furnariidae, Formicariidae] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>56 x 46 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes heads of:  white-tailed goldenthroat, white-chinned thistletail, great xenops, rufous-throated sapphire, rufous-fronted thornbird, rusty-backed antwren, giant humminbird, violet-chested hummingbird, pale-tailed barbthroat, tooth-billed hummingbird, mountain avocetbill, whit-browed antbird, white-backed fire-eye, chotoy spinetail, russet antshrike, undulated antshrike, rufous cacholote, great spinetail, southern antpipit, cinereous antshrike, ochre-cheeked spinetail.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>9</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Woodpeckers, aracari, puffbird </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  green-barred woodpecker, cream-colored woodpecker, cream-backed woodpecker, golden-collared toucanet, lineated woodpecker, chestnut jacamar, checkered woodpecker, white-faced nunbird, green kingfisher, black-streaked puffbird, lancelated monklet, campo flicker.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>10</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Antbirds] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 56 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes: argus bare-eye, rufous-rumped antwren, harlequin antbird, warbling antbird, striated antbird, flammulated treehunter, bicolored antbird, stipple-throated antwren, ferruginous antbird, black-billed gnateater, mara&#x00F1;on crescentchest, ochre-breasted antpitta, moustached turca, striated antthrush, banded antbird.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>11</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Passerines (cotingas, tyrants) </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 56 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  pale-bellied tyrant-manakin, vermillion flycatcher, kinglet calyptura, hooded berryeater, helmeted manakin, red-rumped bush-tyrant, swallow-tailed cotinga, shrike-like cotinga, yellow-crowned manakin, purple-throated cotinga,many-colored rush-tyrant, pin-tailed manakin.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>12</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Flycatchers </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>70 x 50 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  sooty-headed tyrannulet, flammulated pygmy-tyrant, greenish elaenia, tumbes tyrant, yellow-browed tyrant, mouse-colorred tyrannulet, yellow-crowned tyrannulet, bronze-olive pygmy tyrant, cinereous tyrant, patagonian tyrant, cinnamon flycatcher, pale-eyed pygmy tyrant.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>13</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Tyrant-flycatchers] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>56 x 43 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes subtropical doradito, rufous-crowned tody-tyrant, rough-legged tyrannulet, greater wagtail-tyrant, bearded tachuri, large-headed flatbill, sharp-tailed tyrant, tufted flycatcher, greenish tyrannulet, helmeted pygmy-tyrant, tawny-crowned pygmy-tyrant, agile tit-tyrant, mottle-cheeked tyrannulet, ochre-bellied flycatcher, yellow tyrannulet, sinethlage's tody-tyrant.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>14</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Miscellaneous birds </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>70 x 50 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes moustached wren, pale-footed swallow, rufous wren, green honeycreeper, rufous casiornis, red-eyed vireo, rose-breasted chat, andean solitaire, cinereous finch, gray-mantled  wren, golden-collared honeycreeper, dwarf tyrant-manakin, gray-breasted wood-wren.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>15</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Heads </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  austral blackbird, scimitar-billed woodcreeper, oriole blackbird, casqued oropendola, hooded berryeater, chopi blackbird, band-tailed oropendola, cinnamon-throated woodcreeper, saffron-cowled blackbird, chestnut-headed oropendola, red-billed woodcreeper, scarlet-headed blackbird, olive oropendola, purple-throated fuitcrow, yellow-hooded blackbird, crested oropendola, red-ruffed fruitcrow, black-capped mockingthrush, long-tailed woodcreeper, capuchinbird, collared jay.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>16</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Green jay, finches, shrike vireo </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  white-tipped plantcutter, diademed tanager, buff-bridled inca-finch, green jay, slaty-capped shrike-vireo, sharpbill, rufous-browed peppershrike, swallow tanager, rose-breasted thrush-tanager, black-and-rufous warbling-finch, tit-like dacnis, plush-capped finch.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>17</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Tanagers, manakin </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>72 x 51 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes: white-banded tanager, black-goggled tanager, gray-hooded bush-tanager, cinnamon manakin, olive-green tanager, yellow-backed tanager, golden-winged manakin, buff-breasted mountain-tanager, gray-headed tanager, orange-throated tanager, blue-backed tanager, dusky-faced tanager.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>18</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Finches, sparrows </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>70 x 51 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  stripe-capped sparrow, tumbes sparrow, rufous-collared sparrow, blue finch, crimson finch, many-colored chaco-finch, great pampa-finch, cochabamba mountain-finch, black-striped sparrow, coal-crested finch, sulphur-throated finch, chestnut-breasted mountain-finch.  </p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>19</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Tanagers]. </title><unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic ; <dimensions>60 x 46 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes heads of: hooded mountain-tanager, masked crimson tanager, yellow cardinal, fawn-breasted tanager, hepatic tanager, yellow-faced grassquit, red-crested finch, white-rumped tanager, blackish-blue seedeater, golden-collared tanager, orange-headed tanager, white-winged diuca-finch, black-crested finch, chestnut=headed tanager, short-tailed finch, black-throated finch, red-crowned ant-tanager, yellow-green grosbeak, blue-gray tanager, carmiol's tanager, red-and-black grosbeak.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>20</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Seabirds </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>71 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes;  magellanic diving-petrel, cape petrel, black-browed albatross, great skua, kelp gull, white-vented storm-petrel, american oystercatcher, magellanic plover, magellanic penguin, snowy sheathbill, gray-breasted seedsnipe.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>21</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Seabirds] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>74 x 55 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  osprey, magnificent frigatebird, anhinga, red-billed tropicbird, red-legged cormorant, maguari stork, clapper rail, flightless steamer-duck, masked booby, caspian tern, inca tern, large-billed tern, rufous-chested dotterel.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>22</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Raptors and water birds </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  white-tailed kite, spot-winged falconet, roadside hawk, lesser yellow-headed vulture, hook-billed kite, barn owl, boat-billed heron, carunculated caracara, sungrebe, short-winged grebe.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>23</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Water birds] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>70 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  double-striped thick-knee, cordilleran snipe, tawny-throated dotterel, black skimmer, limpkin, south american painted-snipe, pied lapwing, common stilt, andean avocet, wilson's phalarope, diademed sandpiper-plover.  </p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>24</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Cuckoos, owls, swifts] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>75 x 55 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes: white-collared swift, gura cuckoo, semicollared nighthawk, pearly-breasted cuckoo, short-tailed swift, squirrel cuckoo, common potoo, white-banded swallow, black-banded owl, ferruginous pygmy-owl, tropical screech-owl, oilbird, pauraque.  </p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>25</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Woodcreapers, earthcreepers, furnariidae] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>61 x 46 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  common miner, bolivian recurvebill, point-tailed palmcreeper, spotted barbtail, wren-like rushbird, pale-legged hornero, thorn-tailed rayadito, curve-billed reedhaunter, des murs' wiretail, firewood-gatherer, streak-headed woodcreeper, scale-throated earthcreeper, straight-billed reedhaunter.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>26</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Formicariidae] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>64 x 16 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  large-tailed antshrike, chestnut-tailed antbird, giant antshrike, gray antbird, black-hooded thrush, black-capped antwren, strange-tailed tyrant, white-bearded antshrike, slaty bristlefront, white-throated tapaculo, silvered antbird, spot-winged antbird, stub-tailed antbird, crested gallito.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>27</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Miscellaneous birds] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes wing-barred manakin, scimitar-winged piha, long-wattled umbrellabird, white-bearded manakin, white-naped xenopsaris, white bellbird, white-ruffed manakin, scaled fruiteater, black-faced cotinga, grayish mourner, black manakin, white-cheeked cotinga.</p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>28</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Tyrants, flycatchers </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.</dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes: drab water-tyrant, fire-eyed diucon, white-winged black-tyrant, white monjita, shear-tailed gray-tyrant, hudson's black-tyrant, streamer-tailed tyrant,suiriri flycatcher, cock-tailed tyrant, rufous-backed negrito, chocolate-vented tyrant, spectacled tyrant, short-tailed field-tyrant.  </p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>29</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">Blackbirds, thrushes </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>76 x 51 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes: shiny cowbird, masked gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, bolivian blackbird, yellow-legged thrush, chalk-browed mockingbird, spotted nightingale thrush, fasciated wren, long-billed gnatwren, white-capped dipper, short-billed pipit, horned lark.  </p></scopecontent></c01>

<c01><did><unitid>30</unitid><unittitle><title render="italic">[Tanagers, finches, doves] </title>/ John R. Quinn.  <unitdate></unitdate></unittitle><physdesc>1 painting on illustration board : acrylic, b&amp;w ; <dimensions>75 x 55 cm.  </dimensions></physdesc></did><scopecontent><p>Includes:  slate-colored grosbeak, red-billed pied tanager, black-headed hemispringus, magpie tanager, black-masked finch, black-and-white tanager, carmiol's tanager, greater large-billed seed-finch, hooded tanager, scaled dove, black-throated finch, long-tailed ground-dove.</p></scopecontent></c01>

























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