The Bird

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The Bird

1995

Alexander Zakharov (Russian, born 1960) Published by Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia

The featured subject of this print is a symbolic amalgam of the bluebird of happiness from Russian folklore and the American idea of freedom (suggested by the red, white, and blue pattern of its wings). The people, set in a landscape borrowed from a nineteenth-century American painting, are metaphors for the complexities involved in the pursuit of utopian ideals embodied by the American dream. A visage combining the features of the famous nineteenth-century figures Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and American landscape painter Frederic Church observes the mayhem from the sky.

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Object Details

Titles:

The Bird

Date:

1995

Artists:

Alexander Zakharov (Russian, born 1960) Published by Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia

Medium:

Color offset lithograph

Dimensions:

Image: 21 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches (55.2 x 75.6 cm) Sheet: 22 1/8 x 29 3/4 inches (56.2 x 75.6 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Gift of the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt, 2009

Accession Number:

2009-61-91

Geography:

Published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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