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You've heard that otters hold hands when they sleep, but did you know that they have pockets of skin on their forelegs that they use to stash their food? Whether you call them a bevy, a romp, a family, or a raft, this group of otters is sure to swim their way into your heart. This otterly perfect calendar offers a fun fact about this threatened species every month of the year.

From tempestuous ocean swells to whimsical tea carts and magical feats in the clouds, Daniel Merriam's surrealist art transports us to a world of romance, fantastic creatures, and Victorian architecture. Believing his paintings are conduits for his dreams and not just a product of them, he invites viewers to immerse themselves and let the art take them on a journey full of adventure and wonder. Featuring 12 of Merriam's detailed dreamscapes, t...

Tom Thomson loved the rough country of northern Ontario. His exploratory artistic style and his appreciation of the wilderness helped shape the style of the Group of Seven, though his untimely death prevented him from exhibiting with the Group. Thomson created hundreds of small, miraculous oil paintings while supporting himself as a guide and forest ranger in Algonquin Park. Many of Thomson's oil sketches were executed in only a few hours, but...

One of the original founders of the Group of Seven, Lawren S. Harris believed in the need for a national art movement. He painted the Canadian landscape with enthusiasm, capturing the majesty of its wilderness and its inherent spirituality-as shown in the 12 dramatic landscapes featured in this calendar.

Inspired by the works of Dali, Shakespeare, and Tolkien, Dutch artist Johfra Bosschart combined elements of fantasy, mythology, astrology, and religion to create stunning surrealist paintings. In his Zodiac series, Johfra intertwined the traditional elements of the Western zodiac with mythological imagery to create paintings that are rife with hidden symbolism and meaning. Are those the scales of Maat weighing the heart and the feather in Libr...

Delighted by her observations of natural and celestial phenomena, Alma Thomas created brilliant abstractions that place her among the most innovative American painters of the 20th century. Breaking from realism in the 1950s, she moved through expressionism and into abstraction before finding a niche in mosaic compositional style. After nearly 40 years in art education, Thomas retired and focused exclusively on her art, eventually becoming the ...

Bright and spotted with champagne bubbles that effervesce from the earth, Darlene Kulig's artworks are utterly joyful. Kulig refers to her style as semi-abstracted spirited landscape. Her stylized art builds on her experience as a graphic designer, and in each new painting she explores light, rhythm, color, and the life force of her subjects. The 12 images in this calendar reflect her home in Canada and her travels abroad.

Mandalas are mystical symbols that have come to represent wholeness and unified energy. Typically circular and geometric in form, they have played a role in Eastern spiritual development for centuries and are widely favored as focal points in meditation because of their balancing and calming effects. The mandala has become Paul Heussenstamm's signature motif among his thousands of unique and spiritual paintings. For him, mandalas open "the doo...

In his down-to-earth block prints, William S. Rice elegantly portrays the California landscape in all of its glory. In 1900, the Pennsylvania-born artist set out west across the continent, finding inspiration in the Golden States' forests, mountains, and coastline. From tempestuous Pacific seascapes to dramatic mountain ranges, these images became the primary subjects for his photography, sketches, and paintings, and later on, they became the ...

Mark Rothko, who was central to the development of postwar abstract painting in the United States, is best known for the luminous paintings he made in the 1950s and 1960s. These classic works are characterized by their soft-edged rectangular forms and broad, thin washes of color. Rothko worked on large canvases, but he felt that the scale was intimate, establishing a close physical relationship with the viewer. The 12 extraordinary images in t...

Mark Rothko, a titan among modern painters, said that the subject matter of his paintings was the extremes of human emotion. His extraordinary achievement was the communication of tragedy and elation through forms reduced to starkest simplicity-oftentimes a pair of rectangles. The National Gallery of Art is the largest public repository of Rothko's works, with a collection that includes nearly 300 paintings on canvas and paper and a study coll...

Billy Hassell's eye-catching paintings prove that everything is bigger in Texas. As a child, Hassell was captivated by the wilderness near his home in Dallas, and his art is inspired by the animals he brought home in his pockets, the feathered friends he made on his adventures, and the nature surrounding him. Blending realism and abstraction with a psychedelic boldness, Hassell vividly captures the magic of his desert home. Twelve of Hassell's...

For over 30 years, Motawi Tileworks has been handcrafting tiles inspired by art and nature. Motawi artisans combine bold colors and refined line art to create unique pieces, from original designs to reimagined Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Midcentury Modern motifs. Their tiles can befound in a number of public spaces, from museums to universities to Disneyland. Add some Arts & Crafts flair to your home with the Motawi Tileworks designs featured i...

For 30 years, Motawi Tileworks has been crafting tiles inspired by art and nature. From original designs to works based on historic artists, the handmade tiles present bold, colorful patterns and impressive artisanship. Add some Arts & Crafts flair to your home with the Motawi Tileworks designs featured in this mini wall calendar.

Historically, quilts were often created to celebrate special occasions such as weddings and births and as tokens of remembrance for friends and loved ones. Now, they are deeply valued works of art that are sought after for their beautiful compositions, their authenticity, and their sentimental associations. From newsworthy events such as World War I and the death of President Lincoln to the everyday lives of families across the United States, ...

Rosalind Wise creates fresh, lively, large-format paintings of gardens, meadows, wetlands, and other verdant vistas. She is inspired by the natural world, and her works reflect close study of contrasting colors, textures, and forms. Wise often captures floral energy and scale in quick plein air sketches, recording the relationships of plants in groomed gardens or in wild wonders sowed by Mother Nature. Later, in her home studio, she works from...

While paleontologists can spend decades recovering and studying bones and fossils, without a time machine there is no way to truly know exactly what dinosaurs looked like. Bones give us the foundation for their bodies, but time and decay limit our knowledge of defining features like the skin, feathers, cartilage, stature, and muscle mass of these extinct creatures. Giving shape to prehistoric beasts that no human eyes will ever see is an inspi...

The sweet curvature of branch and blossom balances the strong lift of mountain and bamboo in the landscapes of Kazuyuki Ohtsu. His woodblock prints are poetic contemplations, drawing us into tranquil natural settings. The colors he uses are elemental, deep, and true-expressive without drama. Ohtsu paints his original sketches, carves the woodblocks, and makes the prints. Twelve of his artworks reflecting the peaceful Japanese countryside are r...

In the perfectly balanced woodblock prints of Kazuyuki Ohtsu, we find tranquil scenes of natural beauty, where fallen snow quiets the land and autumn leaves erupt in a riot of color. Born into a family of silk weavers, Ohtsu began the study of printmaking when he was 19. He apprenticed with celebrated artist Kiyoshi Saito for 40 years. With the passing of Saito, Ohtsu set out on his own career. Like his teacher, he paints the original pictures...

Step into the crystalline light and rich, warm colors of the American Southwest in each of Gustave Baumanns' landscape prints. Often dominated by blue and yellow hues, his woodcuts convey a profound sense of place. Each is a small, untroubled world, graphically straightforward and emotionally direct, reproduced by the artist with great affection. One of the best known and most beloved 20th-century American printmakers, Baumann lived most of hi...