Grainger McKoy: Dead Bird

Dead Bird: Bronze

Growing up in the rural South, one naturally has a connection with birds. If there is one bird that epitomizes this region of the country, it is the Bob White Quail, and the way I connected with it often was with my teeth. This sculpture was not created out of a sense of sorrow but with anticipation of the meal to come.

The bronze sculpture above is often exhibited without any accoutrements, so that the viewer first is shocked to see a dead bird laying on the floor of a gallery, home or office.

Dead Bird: 1999
Sterling Silver and ebony
Collection of the artist

The Dead Bird has been cast as a limited edition in bronze and sterling silver. Click here to view all of the limited editions. You may also view a printable brochure if you wish.


	Order A Catalogue This sixty-four page color catalogue, with a biographical essay by noted author James Kilgo, was published in 1999 to coincide with Grainger's exhibit at Brookgreen Gardens.			Acquire Sculpture Grainger has cast a number of his original wood sculptures into exquisite bronze and sterling silver limited editions. Created in the traditional lost-wax process, they have the same incredible detail as his wood sculpture.