Audubon in the Anthropocene: Works by Matthew Day Jackson
Exhibition
Exhibition Overview

Audubon in the Anthropocene: Works by Matthew Day Jackson
Kate Meyer, curator
May 4, 2020–November 24, 2020
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This exhibition features a portfolio of prints by contemporary artist Matthew Day Jackson, who reimagines images of birds discovered by John James Audubon amidst apocalyptic settings.
Works of art
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
And frogs in the pools, singing at night,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
And not one will know of the war, not one,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
Will care at last when it is done,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
If mankind perished utterly,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
colophon,
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions; Christopher T. Creyts
Would scarcely know that we were gone,
2015–2016
John James Audubon; John T. Bowen
John James Audubon; John T. Bowen
John James Audubon; John T. Bowen
Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo,
1840–1844
unknown maker
Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) skin,
collected 12 March 1893
unknown maker
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) skin,
collected 1 June 2018
unknown maker
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) skin,
collected 25 April 1964
unknown maker
John James Audubon; Roe Lockwood & Son; Julius Bien
John James Audubon; John T. Bowen
American Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber,
1840–1844