Peter Takal

Dead Birds

1963–1964

Four loose pencil sketches of small birds perched or resting, drawn with simple flowing lines.
Four loose pencil sketches of small birds perched or resting, drawn with simple flowing lines.

Peter Takal, Dead Birds, 1963–1964. Lithograph, sheet: 18 1/16 × 22 1/16 in. (45.9 × 56 cm) Image: 16 × 20 1/4 in. (40.6 × 51.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the artist 67.49.12

Recto

Not on view

Date
1963–1964

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 18 1/16 × 22 1/16 in. (45.9 × 56 cm) Image: 16 × 20 1/4 in. (40.6 × 51.4 cm)

Accession number
67.49.12

Edition
8/20 | 9 Tamarind prints, APs, TPs

Publication
Printed by Robert Gardner; published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc.

Credit line
Gift of the artist

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/5656

Part of a series:
Of Nature, Of Man
20 works

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Detailed fine-line sketch of tangled vertical stems and abstract reflections suggesting plants and water.
Large cream sheet with small handwritten paragraph centered and a small signature mark lower left.
Four loose pencil sketches of small birds perched or resting, drawn with simple flowing lines.
A faint pencil sketch of a woman in a flowing dress viewed in profile.
A vase of wildflowers sits on a windowsill with an open view of the landscape.
A delicate sketch shows the back of a woman's head with hair in a loose bun.
Nude person curled forward on bed with hair falling over face.
Delicate ink drawing of swirling clouds drifting toward a tall textured cliff on the right.


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