#1903 508 2228
The Courtship
28" x 66" x 0.75" | Acrylic/ stretched canvas
Status: Sold
Current Location: Collector's Home
This three panel piece was commissioned by Jack and Barbara Wilson. The request for a Brown Thrasher in a dogwood tree developed into a pair of Brown Thrashers courting among dogwood branches at the end of the tree's flowering stage. While the Brown Thrasher is the state bird of Georgia, their breeding range includes the United States and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. The adult birds measure anywhere from 9.5 to 12 inches from beak to tail tip. Brown Thrashers court each other by singing and presenting gifts—typically nest construction material—and pass them from beak to beak. They construct the nest together, often low in a tree or in a thorny bush. The female will lay as few as two eggs up to six. The male and female share the task of incubating the eggs for 10 to 14 days and both feed their chicks. A single Brown Thrasher may sing over 1,000 tunes—the largest song repertoire of birds.
