And swallows circling with their shimmering sound, Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions

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Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound
Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson; Collaborative Art Editions, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound
Matthew Day Jackson , Collaborative Art Editions , Christopher T. Creyts
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound
2015–2016
Matthew Day Jackson, artist
born 1974
Collaborative Art Editions, publisher
Christopher T. Creyts, printer
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound, 2015–2016
Portfolio/Series title: There Will Come Soft Rains
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: color intaglio
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 496 x 305 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 1/2 x 12 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 685 x 521 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 26 15/16 x 20 1/2 in
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 498 x 307 mm
Plate Mark/Block Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 5/8 x 12 1/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2016.0024.03
Not on display
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Label texts

Cedar waxwings are an abundant species of bird that eat cedar cones, fruits, and insects. Since the 1960s, some cedar waxwings have developed a new orange coloration at the tip of their tails caused by their consumption of berries from an introduced species of honeysuckle.
Jackson pairs the cedar waxwing with the prospect of a catastrophic asteroid impact. Approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck Earth in today’s Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and created such a sweeping global change in climate that about 75% of the planet’s plants and animals, including dinosaurs, became extinct.

Exhibitions

Audubon in the Anthropocene: Works by Matthew Day Jackson
Kate Meyer, curator
2020
Audubon in the Anthropocene: Works by Matthew Day Jackson
Kate Meyer, curator
2020
Conference of the Birds
Emily Kruse, curator
Sabine Rishell, curator
2020

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Listen to a curator talk about this work.
I am obsessed with collective nouns, or special words for groups of animals, and birds get the best ones. You might see a murder of crows, a flamboyance of flamingos, or a murmuration of starlings. But the waxwing has the best collective noun for this exhibition. A group of waxwings is called a museum.

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See the original art by John James Audubon referenced in this print.