Anton van Dalen at Sargent’s Daughters

Sargent’s Daughters’ homage to Dutch New Yorker Anton van Dalen includes this painting from 1986 featuring behavior psychologist B.F. Skinner, whose pigeon experiments included a plan to train the birds to guide missiles in WWII. Himself a pigeon fancier, van Dalen reimagines the pigeon’s world to fascinating effect. (On the Lower East Side through June 12th).

Anton van Dalen, B.F. Skinner with Project Pigeon, oil on canvas, 48 x 64 inches, 1986.
Anton van Dalen, B.F. Skinner with Project Pigeon, oil on canvas, 48 x 64 inches, 1986.