Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
An alphabetical list of artists who have considered the pig.
Christina Balit, England (b. 1961), works include: Circe. Balit is an Illustrator of children’s books, author and playwright. Her trademark style and interpretation is based on traditional mythology, fairy tales and Biblical stories.
Léon Barillot, France, (1844-1929), works include: Truie Normande and Truie Limousine. Barillot was a designer, painter and lithographer. He was well known for his domestic animals and wildlife and also produced excellent landscapes. Barillot also extended his talent to pastels and etchings.
Wright Barker, British, (1864-1941) – Circe (1904-1912), oil on canvas. Barker was a member of the Royal British Academy (R.B.A. )and was a painter of genre, rural and sporting scenes.
Alice Pike Barney, United States, (1857-1931) – Circe, (ndg.), pastel on canvas. Barney was an artist, writer, playwright, theater director, philanthropist, civic leader, and patron of the arts.
James Bateman, British, (1893-1959) – Cattle Market (1937), oil on canvas. Bateman was a painter. wood engraver and a painting master at the Cheltenham School of Art.
Giovanni Battista, Italy, (c. 1459-1517/18) – Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy, (c. 1513), oil on canvas, transferred from wood. Battista (aka: Cima da Conegliano) painted mostly quiet devotional scenes, often in landscape settings.
Peter Baumgartner, German, (1834-1911) – The Toast, (ndg), oil on wood. Baumgartner was a genre and history painter who specialized scenes from literary sources, including German folklore and fairy tales.
Émile-Antoine Bayard, France (1837-1891), works include: A Peasant Girl, Brittany. Bayard was a painter, illustrator and draftsman. He worked primarily for magazines, and illustrated current events and also illustrated novels, including Les Misérables and From the Earth to the Moon.
Frank Beard, United States (1842-1905), works include: The Modern Circe. Beard was an illustrator, caricaturist and cartoonist. He was the principal illustrator for The Ram’s Horn, an interdenominational social gospel magazine.
Romare Bearden, United States, (1911-1988) – Circe Turns a Companion of Odysseus into a Swine, (1977), mixed media collage of various papers with paint and graphite on fiberboard.