Thomas Carlyle
"Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist."
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Mark Twain
"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Ex-Voto Singer Parrot
Artist Name: Selva Prieto Salazar
St. Francis was on hand to teach this parrot something more suitable for the kids, as evidenced in this ex voto.
Here's the translation of the inscription:
Here's the translation of the inscription:
A fiend give a parrot to my husband and the bird sang, but only obscene songs, my children were facinated with it and they began to learn the horrible songs even if they didn't understood the meaning of them, as my husband didn't wanted to give away the parrot I began to ask to San Francisco to teach good manners to the bird and with his help and my patience we achieves that the parakeet learned children songs.
Pin-Up Girls with Parrots
Gil Elvgren (1914 – 1980)
Enoch Bolles (1883–1976)
Gil Elvgren (1914 – 1980)
Gil Elvgren (1914 – 1980)
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Gil Elvgren (1914 – 1980)
John Ashbery (born 1927)
Archie Dickens (1907 - 2004)
Bradshaw Crandell (1896 - 1966)
Bradshaw Crandell (1896 - 1966)
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Baron von Lind (born 1937)
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Baron von Lind (born 1937)
Peter Driben
"Mrs. Ballard's Parrots" by Arne Svenson
Mrs. Ballard's Parrots
With a bizarre yet endearing mix of artistry, kitsch, and humor, this photo book of costumed parrots will appeal to bird lovers and parrot owners. In Alba Ballard's world, parrots became tiny, winged, overdressed incarnations of of such luminaries as Sonny and Cher, Liberace, and General George Patton.
