By: Lucia deLeiris

About the art:
"I watched these Emperor penguins while I was living at a field camp on the frozen Ross Sea in Antarctica. At temperatures averaging 40 below zero (F), I lived with the writer Sara Wheeler in two wooden fish huts set on six feet of sea ice. While on a grant from the National Science Foundation, I spent the Antarctic spring months of August and September painting the landscape as the sun reeled low over the horizon, casting spectacular golden and violet hues on the ice. On one magical evening, I watched the seemingly lifeless landscape come alive as these emperor penguins waddled in from the melting ice edge and stood next to our huts for several hours before ambling off." - Lucia deLeiris

Twilight I is a limited edition print of 300. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.

This particular painting appeared on the cover of the March/April 2000 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest.

The full size of the print is 14" x 18". A white border frames the 8" x 14" image. The paper is neutral pH, and acid-free.
Print comes flat.

The Artist:
Lucia deLeiris' career in art began around 1978. She has illustrated two books: Natural History of the Antarctic Peninsula, (Moss, Columbia University Press '88,) and the forthcoming Antarctic Journal, (by Meredith Hooper, Publ: Frances Lincoln and National Geographic). As well as exhibiting in group shows, she prepared several solo exhibitions of paintings at museums and galleries including Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Newport Art Museum in Newport, RI, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, and Happy White Gallery, Barrington, RI.