“Thylacines were mysterious terrifying phantoms in the minds of Tasmanian settlers. I wanted to create a delirious image that suggested the thylacine’s doom. The painting could be interpreted as the hallucination of either the man or the beast.
—Walton Ford: via Art Daily
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25 March 2011 at 3:29 pm
Hieronymo
That’s a great painting to show (from Ford’s many great paintings). I read a haunting passage from my favorite paleontologist about how wolves would go extinct if they were too clever and ate all of the sheep (which I always think about when I contemplate the doings of earth’s latest alpha-predator). This boiling mass of marsupials consuming each other reminds me of the concept.
25 March 2011 at 3:38 pm
stilltitled
Indeed. I’m a huge fan of Ford. Seems like the perfect subject for a blog post on ferrebeekeeper!
26 April 2011 at 2:45 pm
john james audubon « Stilltitled
[…] The seminal Birds of America collection set the standard for representations of birds and wildlife for many years to come. Sold as a subscription, buyers parted with $1000 -a princely sum- for what would later number 435 prints, issued five times a year, between 1827 and 1838. Today, the style persists through the works of Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley – not to mention the more unusual stylings of Walton Ford. […]