Gone, from the Portfolio “Taxa”
- Publisher
- Feature Inc., New York, New York
- Date
- 2006
- Material
- Inkjet print
- published in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- 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
- 158:2011.6
NOTES
The sixty-eight species portrayed in Gone have all been thought extinct since the mid-19th century, some just in the last few decades. Tragically, this is often the result of human intervention, as with the great auk: represented here by its egg. This large penguin-like bird was famously overhunted to extinction in the 1840s. Yet science must also accommodate uncertainty. The hula painted frog, native only to Israel, was also thought extinct until 2011 when it unexpectedly reappeared, prompting a rare but not impossible change in its status.
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