| Sorry! No Crane by Crane |
| by John
James Audubon: Whooping
Crane by Paul Gauguin: Crane on the Banks of the Seine (1875) by Frederick Stuart Church: Woman and a Crane (Vigilance?) (1892) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Young Woman with Crane (1886) by William Holbrook Beard: Phantom Crane (1891) by Frans Snyders: The Fable of the Fox and the Crane by Berckheyde: The Weigh House and the Crane on the Spaarne in Haarlem by Gaston Lachaise: Hart Crane (drawing, 1923) by John Quidor: The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858) after William John Wilgus: Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman (1855) by Salvador Dalν: Crβne de Zurbaran (1956) by a Chinese illustrator: Wangzi Qiao riding a crane (517x300pix, 16kb) |
Sandhill crane (954x741pix, 234kb) Whooping crane (939x695pix, 37kb) {not related to Whooping cough} Crane fly (197x254pix, 3kb) aka Trichocera annulata Yellow crane flower (223x350pix, 10kb) aka Mandela's Gold The Paper Crane (426x485pix, 174kb) image on cover of book by Molly Bang. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1134x800pix, 125kb) image on cover of book by Eleanor Coerr. Wuhan Yellow Crane Tower (1095x770pix, 94kb) _ more pictures _ the story _ Crane birds (there are no yellow ones outside of myths and pictures) don't like it there. _ The Tower was made famous by the poem by
Cuî Hào (or Ts'ui Hao) [704-754], of which this is the English
translation:The yellow crane has long since gone away, All that here remains is the Yellow Crane Tower. The yellow crane once gone does not return, White clouds drift slowly for a thousand years. The river is clear in Hanyang by the trees, And fragrant grass grows thick on parrot isle. In this dusk, I don't know where my homeland lies, The river's mist-covered waters bring me sorrow. Yellow Crane costume (532x800pix, 89kb) Yellow crane tower (1280x960pix, 252kb) made of Legos. _ the complete toy crane (960x1280pix, 221kb) Cable crane at dam (333x340pix, 126kb _ ZOOM not recommended to 2172x2220pix, 4062kb, unless you are interested in examining closely an example of the texture patterns that mar overenlarged computer images) Construction crane (2048x1536pix, 727kb) Crane ship (1200x1600pix, 739kb) Edward H. Crane (729x700pix, 63kb) This Crane is a US political activist of libertarian tendencies (quite the opposite of Walter Crane), co- founder of the Cato Institute in 1977. Judge Mitch Crane (1250x1000pix, 833kb) his web site |