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Even though he was known as a specialist in North African orientalist genre painting, explorer and painter Edwin Lord Weeks would have found the Green Heron, indigenous to North and Central America, a little closer to home. Sketch of a Green Heron, between 1885 and 1903. Edwin Lord Weeks papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Even though he was known as a specialist in North African orientalist genre painting, explorer and painter Edwin Lord Weeks would have found the Green Heron, indigenous to North and Central America, a little closer to home.

Sketch of a Green Heron, between 1885 and 1903. Edwin Lord Weeks papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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