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Back, from the portfolio “Taxa”

Date
2006
Material
Inkjet print
Classification
Prints
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image (each): 34 1/16 x 25 1/2 in. (86.5 x 64.8 cm)
sheet (each): 35 in. x 26 1/2 in. (88.9 x 67.3 cm)
Credit Line
The Sidney S. and Sadie Cohen Print Purchase Fund
Rights
© Isabella Kirkland
Object Number
158:2011.5
NOTES
The forty-eight species in Back have all rebounded from borderline extinction through sustained attempts to reintroduce them to their original habitats, and at times through sheer resilience. A bald eagle’s egg, seen toward the print’s bottom left edge, is an apt symbol for this bird’s re-emergence since the 1970s. Thanks to government agencies, as well as organizations like the St. Louis-based World Bird Sanctuary, bald eagles are no longer an uncommon sight in the skies over Missouri and across the United States.

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