How many of the 103 paintings in Turner to Monet:
The triumph of landscape contain birds? This is not a
quiz. My count is 22 and a possible, most unidentifiable. There are
8 in Room 1, 6 in Room 3, nil in Room 6, for example. Of course
this has nothing to do with the number of birds in the actual landscape but
depends on the artistic purpose. Some are mere streaks in the sky;
others are central, as with the auks in the Cape Chudleigh painting and the
ibis in Flood in the Darling (?title). If you go, see if you can spot
the bright little chaps in South American Landscape.
