Rooster Weather Vane 1935 - 1942

Lucille Chabot made this image of a rooster weather vane. It's all soft browns and off-whites, a watercolor that feels both precise and dreamy. I can imagine Chabot, sitting, carefully rendering each stripe on the rooster’s tail, a real study of form and texture. You can almost feel the smoothness of the rooster’s body, that pale curved shape against the striped tail feathers. It reminds me of the work of other early 20th century painters who looked to the everyday world around them, like Charles Demuth. There’s something about the angle, too, how the rooster seems caught mid-turn, alert to some shift in the wind. Artists are always looking, always observing the world around them, and trying to capture a little bit of that in their work. This piece feels part of a conversation about how we see and represent the things we see every day.