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The Rattle Snake shows a dark, dense garden with a rattlesnake moving through it almost invisibly. A naked man hides among the large flowers observing the snake. Small birds, a turtle, and a dog looking in from the right side of the canvas and…

The painting is dominated by a large dark purple vase with a small neck and mouth. A Cattleya Superba, a South American plant that flowers in July and August, is placed in the vase. There are five flowers painted in shades of purple, red, and…

In this work five pink and green monkeys with orange tails play around a bed of four masdevallia orchids. The orchids have green and white centers and three red elongated petals, and are all placed in a row along the bottom of the composition. Two…

The background of The Mauvre Butterfly, or Potentilla uniflora is a wash of gray and white horizontal brushstrokes. In the center of the painting is a cylindrical ribbed black planter that rests on three feet. Inside is a yellow buttercup with seven…

The Han Vase is one of the largest paintings Fetherston created. At the center is an oval-shaped, thick-necked, black vase overflowing with a diverse assortment of flowers. At the mouth of the vase are two pink and purple orchids, which give way to…

In Orchids in a Green Vase light shines through the densely painted warm blue sky onto a vase with a long neck holding three orange orchids with a purple centers. The vase is decorated with alternating green and dark blue bands. Fetherston decorated…

In The Giant and the Dwarf two different orchid plants are shown in juxtaposition to one another against a background of blended light mauve, green, and yellow. On the right are light purple orchids with yellow and white accents. They have a green…

he Flirtation, according to the artist, shows an orchid flirting with tulips. There are two yellow tulips on the right side of the painting, and two red and two purple on the left side. Directly behind the red and purple tulips is the taller orchid…

The Cretan Snake Goddess depicts a statuette of Cretan Snake Goddess in profile view. She wears a flounced skirt and a crown. She stands in a patch of small white daisies and slightly larger blue flowers. The background is created with different…

The Chocolate Easter Egg shows a decorated egg-shaped brown-grey vase decorated with a white vine scroll pattern and a white band filled with a strigill pattern. Three different types of orchids are in the vase. The center group flowers are orange…

The Centipede shows a blue gray vase with a round bottom and a long thin neck holding three types of flowers. To the left are orchids of green, red, and purple. Toward the right is a bell-like flower of steel gray and then hanging out of the vase…

In this playful rooster painting, the lead bird speeds off out of the right side of the picture, while two others flank him. None of the roosters are fully shown, because they are cut off at the edges of the canvas. The background is a blur of brown…

Bride of the Unicorn shows a nude woman covered in flowers, standing beneath an arch and looking out of the canvas. She has short red hair and lips. The fowers are a mix of black and pink and white lilies, a yellow flower, and some type of blue…

The blue teapot decorated with a red-berried plant holds violets and a large white flower. Flying above it is a black and orange butterfly. Below the teapot on the right is a statue of a hatted female figure in a circular holding what looks like a…

The Birth of Venus depicts some pink orchids and petals against an abstract background that suggests that vaguely suggests a reddish landscape with a deep blue sky. An explosive area of white paint near the center of the composition might represent…

In the foreground of this work is a grouping of four types of flowers, including cream-orange orchids and whiter orange orchids, jack-in-the-pulpits, and larger pink orchids. A transparent butterfly is resting on a petal of the pink orchid. There…

The Bee is Thee, alternatively titled Confucius, He Ate Sparingly, depicts a statue of a Chinese figure staring straight out at the viewer from the center of the canvas. On the right side of the painting are five large white flowers with pink and…

This is a portrait of Fetherston’s German Shepherd, Teddy. He looks out of the canvas with his head cocked slightly to the left. His eyes open and his ears are up, Teddy' alertness makes it appear as if he has just noticed the viewer or…