Bald Eagle

Print

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Mass Audubon

Name/Title

Bald Eagle

Entry/Object ID

889

Tags

Accession

Description

Bald Eagle by Andy Warhol, silkscreen

Artwork Details

Medium

Silkscreen on paper

Subject

Bald Eagle

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Andy Warhol

Role

Artist

Artist

Rupert Jason Smith

Role

Print Maker

Date made

1983

Place

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Frame

Height

43 in

Width

42-3/4 in

Exhibitions

Waterbirds: Paintings, Prints and Sculpture from Mass Audubon's Collection
Eustis Estate: On the Wing: Artworks from the Museum of American Bird Art
St. Botolph Club
Brewster's Woods Preview
For the Birds: Ten Artists, Two Centuries, Art from Mass Audubon's Collection
Painting Birds to Save Them: The Critical Role of Art in the Bird Conservation Movement
Wendell Gilley Museum / Inspired Flight: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of American Bird Art

General Notes

Note Type

Curator's Note

Note

Warhol's Bald Eagle is one of ten silkscreens from his Endangered Species series, which he described as "animals in make-up." The series was commissioned by art dealers Ronald and Frayda Feldman in 1983. Warhol donated one hundred prints to wildlife conservation organizations. Mass Audubon was the recipient of two, the Bald Eagle and the Pine Barrens Tree Frog. The series was exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and subsequently at natural history museums across the country.