Ivory-billed Woodpeckers Art Print - Joseph Bartholomew Kidd Size:8″×10″ 57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)

57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)

Date: 1826

who slumps over his horse while the troops behind him flee the ambush

of 1891 (National Gallery

romanticized views of the American West in tantalizing color and detail

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers Art Print - Joseph Bartholomew Kidd Size:8″×10″ 57 oz/y² (189 g/m²)About 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