copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:30×40 cm and the Southwest's unique plant

and the Southwest's unique plant life were favored themes

He started studying in Yehuda Pen's art school at Vitebsk when he was just eleven years old

all refer to the West Port murders in 1828

and the antics of puppetry (Ranson kept a puppet theater in his studio)

a precursor to the Work Progress Administration's Federal Art Project

copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:30×40 cm and the Southwest's unique plantThis is the hidden world of the plankton, magnified into art. Copepods the minuscule crustaceans that drift in their billions through the world's oceans are usually invisible to the naked eye, but Ernst Haeckel drew them here as translucent, long antennaed jewels, each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark, deep water background. The plate comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining series of 100