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McGrain, Todd,
Animal -- Bird
Sculpture
Outdoor Sculpture -- Canada -- Newfoundland
Great Auk, (sculpture).
Artist:
McGrain, Todd, sculptor.
Title:
Great Auk, (sculpture).
Medium:
Sculpture: bronze.
Subject:
Animal -- Bird -- Auk
Object Type:
Sculpture
Outdoor Sculpture -- Canada -- Newfoundland
Owner:
Fogo Island, Joe Batt's Arm, a rocky point on northern tip of island, Newfoundland, Canada
Remarks:
The Great Auk sculpture was created by Todd McGrain, Associate Professor of Art at Cornell University, and is one in a series of extinct fowl in the Lost Bird Project. The Lost Bird Project is an effort to place larger-than-life bronze sculptures of extinct avian species near the location of their last known sightings. The sculptures are not biologically correct, as they are conceived to reach out and grab our awareness of a sad event of our existence. Mr. McGrain states: “They compel us to recognize the finality of our loss, they ask us not to forget them, and they remind us of our duty to prevent further extinction.” A documentary film of the same name covers the Lost Bird Project. The Lost Bird Project Memorials and locations are: the Carolina Parakeet in Okeechobee, FL, the Passenger Pigeon in Columbus, OH, the Heath Hen in Martha’s Vineyard, MA, the Great Auk on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, and the Labrador Duck in Elmira, New York.
References:
Inventory Staff, 2012.
Note:
The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
Repository:
Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Control Number:
IAS 71501036
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Inventory of American Sculpture
71501036
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