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On the Edge
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On the Edge

Artist/Maker Mark Eberhard United States, born 1949
Date2008
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsimage: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm) frame: 60 1/4 × 60 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (153 × 153.4 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineJKM Collection, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2008.038
ClassificationsPainting
Signedsigned bottom right
InscribedAlong the top, "But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields return no more, where is paradise? -Wallace Stevens"
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DescriptionLarge dark painting with birds mainly along the edges. Quote across top of canvas: "But when the birds are gone, and their warm fields return no more, where then is paradise? - Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning. From top right: Florida Scrub Jay, Kirtland's Warbler, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Brown Pelican, Nene, Northern Spotted Owl.