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Pandas at Play

The giant pandas are solitary animals; they usually want to be alone. Of course, males and females sometimes come together. Then, for a brief time, they engage in playful, gentle "wrestling matches." - R. B.

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Passing Fancy - Lion Cubs and Rhino

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Pasture Trails - Red Fox

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Path of the Panther

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Peaceable Kingdom - Lechwe and Lioness

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Peaceful Flock - American Wigeon
1990 Texas Duck Stamp Print

The harbor where we live is the wintering ground for many waterfowl, including wigeons. The shallow water at the end of the bay is their favorite haunt. They are a warm and welcome sight, settling together and quietly taking to one another. - R. B.

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Peaceful Flock - American Wigeon
Companion Edition

The harbor where we live is the wintering ground for many waterfowl, including wigeons. The shallow water at the end of the bay is their favorite haunt. They are a warm and welcome sight, settling together and quietly taking to one another. - R. B.

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Peary Caribou

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Peregrine and Ruddy Turnstones

This is, of course, a picture of a wave. The birds - a peregrine falcon who has disturbed a flock of ruddy turnstones - add interest and perhaps excitement, but the essential idea is the drama of a powerful wave. - R. B.

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Peregrine and Young

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Peregrine Falcon

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Peregrine Falcon and White-Throated Swifts

In this painting, I wanted to convey a plummeting, unstable feeling. I deliberately made one of the peregrine's wings almost touch the frame so that the line of the frame adds force to the hawk's dive. The misty trees and little cloud at the bottom also hold things in without destroying the dynamic momentum of the painting. - R. B.

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Peregrine Falcon on the Cliff

The peregrine's favorite nesting and roosting place is a high cliff. From such a vantage point they can spot their prey and watch for danger. - R. B.

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Peregrine in Flight

The peregrine falcon is the prince of the air, but when I needed reference for my painting of the peregrine, wave, and turnstones, I found that no reference material gave me adequate information on the flying falcon. This is not surprising since this bird can achieve incredible speed. No photographs were adequate. Although I am able to do quick action sketches, they are necessarily vague and lacking in exact detail.  I was interested in the main shapes and proportions that I hope give the impression of this falcon's intense dynamic action. This sculpture was done over the course of several months after viewing peregrines at falconry centers, consulting with falconers and observing slow motion movies. I would like to thank in particular the Peregrine Fund, Inc. at Fort Collins, Colorado. Their enthusiasm, knowledge and assistance were invaluable. - R. B.

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Pheasant in a Cornfield

In this picture, I was interested not only in the glorious feathers of the pheasant, but also in the textures of the corn and the way they echo the shape of the bird. I also wanted to capture the texture of the old snow with human footprints and the glow of winter afternoon light. - R. B.

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Pheasants at Dusk

The building in Pheasants at Dusk was a former cheese factory, until vandals burned it down a few years ago. The factory itself had closed because of competition from a large monopoly. With it died one example of a particularly vital form of economic democracy - the farmers' cooperative. This was where my grandfather and his neighbors took their milk to be made into cheese. You can see the curving drive and part of the covering over the loading platform where Grandad would have pulled up his horse-drawn wagon.  The split rail fence comes at you into the foreground - almost landing in your lap - then leads you back into the picture and toward the male pheasant in flight. The pheasant provides a hint of opulence in an otherwise stark, late-autumnal scene, perhaps a faint reminder of summer. Brought over by settlers from the British Isles as a game bird, the pheasant has survived better than my grandfather's way of life, although its numbers have declined drastically in the last ten years. I really enjoy painting its rich tapestry of feathers. I don't think the human imagination could devise a more surprising or pleasing visual combination. - R. B.

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Picnic Table

This painting shows the picnic table and a wooden chair my father built - almost hidden reminders of the lively, sunny days of summer. The pileated woodpeckers are having a picnic of their own as they excavate the wood of an old elm tree. - R. B.

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Pileated Woodpecker on Beech Tree

A woodpecker almost as big as a crow and built like a heron, that is the pileated. In this painting, I have put him in a setting that is almost a sculptured landscape in itself - the trunk of the beech tree. I find the variety of surface textures like an exciting piece of sculptured art. - R. B.

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Pintails in Spring
1988 Canada Duck Stamp Print

The effect of light on form has always been a great interest of mine. The artistic challenge I set for myself in this painting was to show the importance of minor changes in the angle of light. - R. B.

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Pintails in Spring - Executive Edition
1988 Canada Duck Stamp Print

The effect of light on form has always been a great interest of mine. The artistic challenge I set for myself in this painting was to show the importance of minor changes in the angle of light. - R. B.

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Pioneer Memories - Magpie Pair

Here we have a little one-grave pioneer cemetery.  No one now visits the grave except this magpie pair who, in their black-and-white garb and with their intelligent ingenuity, seem to me to represent the spirit of the pioneers. - R. B.

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Plowed Field - Snowy Owl

When the snow covers a plowed field, it helps to emphasize all the shapes and forms that have been created in an apparently haphazard fashion. These are the kinds of accidental rhythms and patterns I enjoy painting. - R. B.

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Polar Bear

I have shown this bear coming around the corner of a wave-worn, rocky shoreline. He is striding through the puddles which have been left by the tide. This indicates the coastal nature of the polar bear's habitat. Although they may range many miles inland and have been seen swimming far out to sea, they are primarily found where the arctic waters meet the land. - R. B.

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Polar Bear Profile

My main interest in doing this painting was in exploring the fur of the polar bear, which is not really white, but a glowing cream color. One of the most exciting aspects of nature to me is the fact that the surface texture of rocks, plants or animals has infinite, yet logical, variety. - R. B.

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Polar Bears at Baffin Island

Polar bears are generally loners. They seldom cooperate on the kill, and mated pairs are rarely seen together. The female, however, will spend a long time with her one or two cubs, giving them lessons of the hunt. Sometimes the young bear can be almost as big as its mother before it goes out on its own. - R. B.

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Potlatch Village

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Power Play - Rhinoceros

To keep this magnificent beast from extinction, we need a global power play to abolish rhino poaching and the money that supports it. I painted Power Play to raise funds to abolish illegal rhino horn trade and to save this 70-million-year-old species from extinction. - R. B.

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Prairie Evening - Short-Eared Owl

This bit of sagebrush prairie is very typical habitat, with plentiful ground cover, which the short-eared owl prefers. This late afternoon to twilight setting is the time of day best suited to his type of hunting. - R. B.

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Predator Portfolio - Black Bears

R. B.'s Predator Portfolio is an unprecedented series of limited edition art which celebrates North America's few remaining large predatorial mammals - cougars, wolves, grizzlies, polar bears, black bears, wolverines - species which are rapidly disappearing from existence.  The Predator Portfolio includes six separate editions of only 950 signed and numbered prints, one for each species of predator. Five of the six editions in the Portfolio include three unparalleled hand-colored art prints of each predator. The Wolverine Series includes two hand-colored prints. Bateman's Predator Portfolio was published from original drawings illustrating Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril, a book published by World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Predator Portfolio - Cougars

R. B.'s Predator Portfolio is an unprecedented series of limited edition art which celebrates North America's few remaining large predatorial mammals - cougars, wolves, grizzlies, polar bears, black bears, wolverines - species which are rapidly disappearing from existence.  The Predator Portfolio includes six separate editions of only 950 signed and numbered prints, one for each species of predator. Five of the six editions in the Portfolio include three unparalleled hand-colored art prints of each predator. The Wolverine Series includes two hand-colored prints. Bateman's Predator Portfolio was published from original drawings illustrating Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril, a book published by World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Predator Portfolio - Grizzlies

R. B.'s Predator Portfolio is an unprecedented series of limited edition art which celebrates North America's few remaining large predatorial mammals - cougars, wolves, grizzlies, polar bears, black bears, wolverines - species which are rapidly disappearing from existence.  The Predator Portfolio includes six separate editions of only 950 signed and numbered prints, one for each species of predator. Five of the six editions in the Portfolio include three unparalleled hand-colored art prints of each predator. The Wolverine Series includes two hand-colored prints. Bateman's Predator Portfolio was published from original drawings illustrating Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril, a book published by World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Predator Portfolio - Polar Bears

R. B.'s Predator Portfolio is an unprecedented series of limited edition art which celebrates North America's few remaining large predatorial mammals - cougars, wolves, grizzlies, polar bears, black bears, wolverines - species which are rapidly disappearing from existence.  The Predator Portfolio includes six separate editions of only 950 signed and numbered prints, one for each species of predator. Five of the six editions in the Portfolio include three unparalleled hand-colored art prints of each predator. The Wolverine Series includes two hand-colored prints. Bateman's Predator Portfolio was published from original drawings illustrating Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril, a book published by World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Predator Portfolio - Wolverines

R. B.'s Predator Portfolio is an unprecedented series of limited edition art which celebrates North America's few remaining large predatorial mammals - cougars, wolves, grizzlies, polar bears, black bears, wolverines - species which are rapidly disappearing from existence.  The Predator Portfolio includes six separate editions of only 950 signed and numbered prints, one for each species of predator. Five of the six editions in the Portfolio include three unparalleled hand-colored art prints of each predator. The Wolverine Series includes two hand-colored prints. Bateman's Predator Portfolio was published from original drawings illustrating Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril, a book published by World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Predator Portfolio - Wolves

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R. B.'s Predator Portfolio is an unprecedented series of limited edition art which celebrates North America's few remaining large predatorial mammals - cougars, wolves, grizzlies, polar bears, black bears, wolverines - species which are rapidly disappearing from existence.  The Predator Portfolio includes six separate editions of only 950 signed and numbered prints, one for each species of predator. Five of the six editions in the Portfolio include three unparalleled hand-colored art prints of each predator. The Wolverine Series includes two hand-colored prints. Bateman's Predator Portfolio was published from original drawings illustrating Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril, a book published by World Wildlife Fund Canada.

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Preening Pair - Canada Geese

Canada geese preen and stretch many times each day. I enjoy the shapes of their different poses and rearranged feathers as they make unpredictable artistic combinations. - R. B.

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Pride of Autumn - Canada Goose
1987 National Fish and Wildlife Stamp Print

Here I have shown a vigilant gander having just emerged from the water, perhaps just to do some feeding. In the background, you can see the ripples from his mate, which just swam by. She will likely come ashore in a moment. - R. B.

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Prothonotary Warbler

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Proud Swimmer - Snow Goose

The snow goose nests in the arctic in a breeding colony. It is actually the same species as the blue goose, so the colony can be a mixture of blues and snows with one parent of either color form. This painting depicts the bright and buoyant atmosphere of the breeding colony. - R. B.

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The Prowler