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Maggie the Porcupine and Other Animals (Some of Them on Drugs) Make Masterpieces to Support the Tulsa Zoo Picasso may have owned paintings by Congo the Abstract Expressionist chimpanzee, but now collectors of all stripes can purchase paintings by animals. The Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma is using art created by its animal charges as a fundraising tool, selling canvases of foot-, snout-, and claw-prints for prices ranging from a measly $35 to $5,000 for works by larger creatures — polar bears included. A collection of photos on the zoo’s Web site shows a gallery’s worth of pieces by different animals. Elephants held paintbrushes in their trunks to make graceful Ab-Ex pieces that might call to mind calligraphy ($200) while Maggie the porcupine gave her own spin on Futurism with a swirling composition of pink and green ($100). The most expensive work was created by the polar bear, which pressed its painted nose and paws into a two-by-three-foot canvas ($5,000). (via Art Info)

Maggie the Porcupine and Other Animals (Some of Them on Drugs) Make Masterpieces to Support the Tulsa Zoo

Picasso may have owned paintings by Congo the Abstract Expressionist chimpanzee, but now collectors of all stripes can purchase paintings by animals. The Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma is using art created by its animal charges as a fundraising tool, selling canvases of foot-, snout-, and claw-prints for prices ranging from a measly $35 to $5,000 for works by larger creatures — polar bears included.

A collection of photos on the zoo’s Web site shows a gallery’s worth of pieces by different animals. Elephants held paintbrushes in their trunks to make graceful Ab-Ex pieces that might call to mind calligraphy ($200) while Maggie the porcupine gave her own spin on Futurism with a swirling composition of pink and green ($100). The most expensive work was created by the polar bear, which pressed its painted nose and paws into a two-by-three-foot canvas ($5,000).

(via Art Info)