Jennifer Matthews | Artist's Studio

Original Oil Paintings / Giclee Fine Art Prints

"Western Meadowlark"	" ...there is a kind of larke here that much resembles the bird called the old field lark with a yellow brest and a black spot on the croop; tho' this differs from ours in the form of the tail which is pointed being formed of feathers of unequal length; the beak is somewhat longer and more curved and the note differs considerably; however in size, action, and colours there is no perceptable difference; or at least none that strikes my eye. " -Merriwether Lewis

Saturday June 22nd. 1805

"Bungalow Home in Winter"

"Little Chickadees on a Crabapple"

"Portrait of an Elk Bull"	"If the single quill of cloud in the sky decided to come back to earth it would find no place to land. On both sides of the river buffalo, antelope, and elk crowd together, watching us work our way upstream. " From the Journals of Lewis and Clark

May, 1805

"Robin on a Mountain Ash"	"Saw the first robin." --William Clark

In Remarks and Reflections for April 22, 1805 (Coues, page 1288) the following is recorded:

" Mother and Fawn"	"...The Countrey on each Side of the river is fine interspersed with Praries, in which imence herds of Deer is Seen, on the banks of the river we observe numbers of Deer watering and feeding on the young willow, Several Killed to day." --William Clark

"Goldfinch and Honeysuckle"	"The river bottoms affording all the timber which is to be seen in the country they are filled with innumerable little birds that resort thither either for shelter or to build their nests. When sun began to shine today these birds appeared to be very gay and sung most inchantingly; I observed among them the ... linnit goaldfinch, .... Some of the inhabitants of the praries also take reffuge in these woods at night or from a storm. " --Merriwether Lewis

Saturday June 8th. 1805

"Chickadees & Berries"

"House Finch on a Crabapple"

"Mother and Baby Deer"

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