Ivory-billed Woodpeckers Art Print - Joseph Bartholomew Kidd Size:8″×10″ This confrontation of man and

This confrontation of man and wilderness draws on a long allegorical tradition of the lonely rider journeying through an awesome world

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romanticized views of the American West in tantalizing color and detail

of 1891 (National Gallery

and eulogists who gathered in tribute to him later that month at the Century Club

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers Art Print - Joseph Bartholomew Kidd Size:8″×10″ This confrontation of man andAbout the Art: Last seen in 1944 and thought to be extinct, the ivory billed woodpecker has recently been sighted several times in a national wildlife refuge in Arkansas. Here depicted life size, the ivory bill is the largest of its genus in North America; Audubon referred to it as "this great chieftain of the woodpecker tribe," and it was also dubbed "the Lord God bird," for the exclamation it elicited from those who saw it. Audubon made his