Hunt Slonem

Bunnies, Butterflies, and Tropical Birds

Hunt Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, studied painting at Tulane, and has worked in New York since 1973. He began painting rabbits after learning that his birth year was the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, and his neo-expressionist birds and butterflies come from the aviary of 30 to 100 live birds he keeps in his studio. His paintings are in the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney.