The Little Pigeon, Mark Leithauser

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born 1950
The Little Pigeon, 1981
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: etching
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 299 x 315 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 11 3/4 x 12 3/8 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 414 x 504 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 5/16 x 19 13/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in
Credit line: Gift of Hal M. Davison, Class of 1949
Accession number: 1998.0434
Not on display

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Exhibition Label: "Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard Asked to describe the setting of this print Leithauser replied, “The Little Pigeon was actually inspired by two poems [by the artist’s brother, Brad Leithauser], Dead Elms by a River, and Canoeing at Night. When I was a boy Dutch Elm Disease spread through Michigan, decimating the forests (in fact, I lived on Elm Park Blvd-imagine what happened to that beautiful street). All of those grand trees came down at the same time, having lost all extraneous branches and bark-just the silvery hard core (the description in the poem is wonderful).”