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Exhibition History"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," organized by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, sponsored by the National Bank of Waterloo, Oct. 24 - Nov. 20, 1983; (Circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Jan. 15 - Feb. 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Apr. 1 - May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, July 15 - Aug. 26, 1984)

"B.J.O. Nordfeldt: The Lambertville Years," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, Oct. 24, 1981 - Jan. 3, 1982

"New Accessions USA," Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, June 18 - Sept. 2, 1958

"Purchase Show," Des Moines Art Center, May 9 - June 2, 1957
Published ReferencesVan Deren Coke, NORDFELDT THE PAINTER, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1972, ref. p.124, color ill. pl. no.17

"B. J. O. Nordfeldt: The Lambertville Years," New Jersey State Museum, 1981, exh. cat. no.43

DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. & b/w ill. p.165, pl.103

"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Waterloo Municipal Galleries, 1983, exh. cat. no.30

"New Accessions USA," Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1958, exh. cat. no.23, ill.
DimensionsFrame: 39 3/4 × 48 1/8 in. (101 × 122.2 cm)
Canvas: 34 × 42 in. (86.4 × 106.7 cm)
Accession Number 1957.11
Classificationspainting
SignedNordfeldt 54 (l,r oil paint)
ProvenanceArtist. (Passedoit Gallery, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 1957]
Shore Birds, Tomales Bay
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Zora Duvall
1959
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alf Ragnvald Olsson
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
John Kirsch
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
copy of Ando Hiroshige
date unknown
Photo Credit: Richard Sanders, Des Moines
Jean Kubota Cassill
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Martin Barooshian
1970
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Nathan Lerner
1936, printed later