Morris Graves

Bird in the Spirit

c. 1940–1941

A stylized bird skeleton with a long beak and claws appears layered within red-orange textures.
A stylized bird skeleton with a long beak and claws appears layered within red-orange textures.

Morris Graves, Bird in the Spirit, c. 1940–1941. Opaque watercolor on paper, sheet: 21 3/8 × 41 3/4 in. (54.3 × 106 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art 59.9

Recto

Not on view

Date
c. 1940–1941

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Opaque watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 21 3/8 × 41 3/4 in. (54.3 × 106 cm)

Accession number
59.9

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/2878




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