Marguerite Burgess painted a series of modernist birds and paintings with cat/bird-related themes, and this one combines a little of both. Most of her work from the early 1950s is very colorful.

 She was born in 1913, and had a long and distinguished career as a painter, lithographer, teacher, and designer.

She studied at the Corcoran Art School, The Phillips Memorial Gallery School of Art, and with C. Law Watkins. She exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in 1941; The Art Institute of Chicago in 1942; at the Phillips Memorial Gallery in 1943 and 1944, and at other important venues, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, The Contemporary Art Gallery, The Oakland Art Gallery, the Whyte Gallery, and others.

Her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Phillips Collection ; the Whyte Gallery in Washington DC; and her murals are at American University and Carville Hosptial, Carville, LA.

 Her biography can be found in Who Was Who in American Art.