This online viewing room titled Hunt Slonem: Bunnies, Birds & Butterflies includes examples from over eighty editioned prints and monoprints the artist created from 1994 to 2016, either in residence at the Stewart & Stewart workshop in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan or, in later years, at Slonem’s New York City studios. The screenprint edition titled Lucky Charm 3 (2013) was commissioned by the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan. Just a few of these screeenprints, hand painted monoprints and pigment prints are show in this online viewing room. Slonem’s complete inventory of fine art prints can be viewed at StewartStewart.com.

Slonem painted rabbits before he settled on birds as a primary subject. In 1997, Slonem began to create screenprints of bunnies and then pigment prints. “The initial development and completion of a characteristic Slonem bunny picture is really quite basic, and is the secret to their spontaneity and ultimate success...” (Helander 2014)

Slonem is most recognized for his bird paintings. After often arranging his birds in multiples, it seemed an intentional next step to start creating multiples in screenprints with the collaborative guidance of master printer Norm Stewart. It was upon the suggestion of artist Janet Fish that Slonem first came to the Stewart & Stewart workshop in 1994 to create Lories, Toucans and Black and White Toucans, all screenprints.

As for the Lepidoptera, butterflies and Luna moths, Slonem works with these culturally popular visual motifs in repetition. “They are rarely in sharp focus; their shapes are somewhat misted and often, repeated so as to create a pattern which itself must be uncoded. Again, this all happens in only a few seconds, before the creatures can be given individuation and appreciated as belonging to a distinct species.” (Geldzahler 1993)


Helander, Bruce. 2014. Bunnies. New York/London: Glitterati.
Geldzahler, Henry. 1993. Hunt Slonem. New York: Kunst Editions/Jano Group.