Scottish Fold Collage
by Barbara Keith
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18.000 x 24.000 inches
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Title
Scottish Fold Collage
Artist
Barbara Keith
Medium
Drawing - Colored Pencil
Description
* NOTE: 01-29-22 11.5x14 Print Sale to Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Often, the creation of a new cat breed hinges on a natural genetic mutation that occurs unexpectedly in an otherwise ordinary cat. Such was the case with the Scottish Fold. Members of the breed today can all trace their heritage back to Susie, a white cat with unusual, folded ears who earned her keep as a mouser in a barn in Scotland’s Tayside region. Susie might have lived her life in obscurity had she not been noticed in 1961 by a shepherd named William Ross who had an interest in cats. When Susie had kittens with a local tom, Ross acquired one of them, a female he named Snooks. In the natural way of things, Snooks had kittens, and one, a male was bred to a British Shorthair. Thus began the development of what were first known as “lop-eared cats,” later as Scottish Folds, a nod to their country of origin and their defining characteristic (cattime.com).
Complete 1995 after 8.41 hours spread over 5 days
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October 19th, 2018
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Comments (19)
Jenny Revitz Soper
BRAVO! Your artwork has earned a FEATURE on the homepage of The Artists Group, 8/9/2022! You may also post it in the Group's Features discussion thread and any other thread that fits!
Taphath Foose
Beautiful work, Barbara!!! Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Just Drawing"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" Discussion!!