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La Historia Me Absolvera
La Historia Me Absolvera

La Historia Me Absolvera

Artist/Maker Walton Ford United States, born 1960
Date1999
MediumSix-colored hard-ground and soft-ground etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, and drypoint on paper
Dimensionsimage: 44 x 30 in. (111.8 x 76.2 cm) frame: 52 3/4 x 40 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (134 x 102.2 x 4.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the 2009 and 2010 Collectors Circles, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM2010.033.003
ClassificationsPrint
Subject
On View
Not on view
DescriptionDiscribed as a Cuban red macaw, this lone bird is perched on a moss covered tree branch. Near to the macaw, a few bees fly near a hive placed on the end of a manufactured branch. A woodeden box hangs from another nearby tree, from which a small fire can be seen in the distance. A fishing pole is visible near the center of the image.
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