Skip to main contentDescriptionRed, white and blue woodpecker inside of a sealed, glass eched, jar, perched on a piece of wood, which appears to have holes pecked through. The jar's echings, somewhat like tatoos, represent iconic imagery of the southeast. The bird depicted is an ivory-billed woodpecker which is thought to be extinct. The reason for its extinction was habitat loss in the southeast due to logging, hence the background imaging. 
The Singer Tract
Artist/Maker
John Buck
United States, born 1946
Date2005
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsPrint on paper: 67 3/4 x 37 in. (172.1 x 94 cm)
frame (Frame): 74 3/4 x 43 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (189.9 x 111.1 x 3.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the 2015 Blacktail Gala, National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberM2015.005.005
ClassificationsPrint
Subject
Inscribed"Singer Tract W.P. 2/2" & "John Buck 2009"
On View
Not on view