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Tanchou Lovers portrays a pair of Japanese Red-crowned Cranes singing and displaying in a winter landscape

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate sensations of birds in nature. I have tried to present my impressions in what is the most congenial and expressive form achievable from me. I have elected to study birds with brush and paint, attempting to force this often-unwilling medium of paint and ground, to record them. I recall two strong feelings since my childhood: a bond between birds and myself and desire for self-expression with my hands. These have never ceased to be united within my evolving vision and lifework as a painter of birds. Although my subject matter may appear to be strictly birds, I am as much influenced by the landscape as I am by the creature, the goal being for me is to...