R.R. Bohannon

Atlas of Dead Birds (painting series)
Nosa’, with Papa’s Underwood
Nosa’, with Papa’s Underwood
Oil on wood panel, 12” x 12”
2025
Zosterops conspicillatus conspicillatus (Bridled white-eye, or nosa’ in Chamorro)
Last seen at Guam’s Ritidian Point, in a cliffside forest beneath a U.S. Airforce base, in 1982.
Po‘ouli, nukupu’u, and ʻākepa, with Grandma’s quilt
Po‘ouli, nukupu’u, and ʻākepa, with Grandma’s Quilt
Oil on wood panel, 20” x 15”
2025
Left to right:
Melamprosops phaeosoma (Hawaiian black-faced honeycreeper, or po‘ouli in Hawaiian)
Hemignathus affinis (nukupu’u in Hawaiian)
Loxops ochraceus (ʻākepa in Hawaiian)
Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, ‘akialoa, nukupu’u, and kāmaʻo, with Grandma’s bowl
Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, ‘akialoa, nukupu’u, and kāmaʻo, with Grandma’s Bowl
Oil on wood panel, 16” x 24”
2025
Clockwise from the upper left:
Moho braccatus (ʻōʻō in Hawaiian);
Akialoa stejnegeri (‘akialoa in Hawaiian)
Hemignathus hanapepe (Nukupu’u, in Hawaiian)
Myadestes myadestinus (Large Kauai thrush, or kāmaʻo in Hawaiian)
Kākāwahie with Granny’s Singer
Kākāwahie with Granny’s Singer
Oil on wood panel, 15” x 12”
2025
Paroreomyza flammea (Molokai creeper, or Kākāwahie in Hawaiian)
Bachman’s warbler, with Papa’s bow ties
Bachman’s warbler, with Papa’s bow ties
Oil on wood panel, 12” x 12”
2025
Vermivora bachmanii (Bachman’s warbler)
Last confirmed siting in Louisiana, 1988.
Printmaking (intaglio and relief)
High Bridge, St. Paul
High Bridge
Drypoint (3″ x 5.5″)
2026
Walking Lakes
Walking Lakes
Copperplate etching (4″ x 6″)
2026
Powderhorn Park
Powderhorn
Linocut (6″ x 9″)
2026
Small Paintings (oil and gouache)
Bonsai, Como Zoo
Bonsai, Como Zoo
Gouache on hardboard panel (6″x6″)
2025
Painting of tea
Afternoon tea
Gouache on paper (5″x7″)
2024
Papa's Underwood
Papa’s Underwood
Oil on wood panel (6″ x 6″)
2025
Maps

Among Giants
Pen, alcohol marker, and paper
2022
Published in 2024 at Streets.mn. Map data from Natural Earth, MNTOPO, MNDOT, Minnesota DNR, and Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Lake Agassiz shorelines based on Richard W. Ojakangas and Charles l. Matsch, Minnesota’s Geology (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1982) and H.E. Wright. “Geologic History of Minnesota Rivers,” Educational Series 7 (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1990). I am very much not a geologist, so any errors are also very much my own.

This World Is Not My Home
Pen, alcohol marker, and paper
2021
Published in Shenandoah in 2023.

Birding the Pandemic
Pen, alcohol marker, and paper
2020
Published featured in The Quarantine Atlas in 2022.

Downtown St. Paul
Downtown St. Paul
Ink on paper (8.5″ x 11″)
2020
Gilmer County, GA
Gilmer County, GA
Ink on paper (8.5″ x 11″)
2020
Minnesota Watersheds
Minnesota Watersheds
ArcGIS and Illustrator (16″ x 20″)
2019
World Map
The World
ArcGIS and Illustrator (41″ x 27″)
2018