Nikolai Kirillovich Litvinov: Barn Owl/USSR Birds

Artist: Nikolai Kirillovich Litvinov
1930 -
Nationality: Russian
Artwork Year: 1979
Image Size: 9 by 7.875 inches
Overall Size: 12.75 by 11.625 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

This haunter of old barns, belfries, hollow trees and caves may well be the best-known owl of all. The Barn Owl is a member of a highly successful family whose roots trace back as far as twenty million years, and its pale, heart-shaped face is familiar in many parts of the world. Chemical pesticides have hurt its numbers in a few urban areas, but the Barn Owl has proved a remarkable survivor. Its unique face makes it easy to remember, and the absolutely silent flight of this night-hunting bird has helped make it a favorite of legend and literature. The Barn Owl is the owl of Gray's famed Elegy in a Country Churchyard and other great English works . . . the sudden ghostlike wraith which flashes in front of headlights in the far reaches of the Australian outback . . . and the everyday producer of the shrill rasping shiiish which reminded a humorous-minded Audubon of "an opossum about to die of strangulation."

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the U.S.S.R. Barn Owl stamp issued September 18, 1978.

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