A stylized bird with long legs and beak hidden within layered red and orange textures.

Morris Graves

Bird in the Spirit

c. 1940–1941

Not on view

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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
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