Grainger McKoy: Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (2006)

Unpainted

Grainger used steel for the two lowermost feathers to support the sculpture. The pine branch below is cast out of bronze and reinforced with steel as well.

This is the second extinct species Grainger has sculpted. The first was the Carolina Parakeet.

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker: 2006
Basswood, steel, bronze and oil paint
Collection of Ms. Leigh Manigault

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker couldn't have come to fruition without the gracious assistance of Dr. William Post, ornithologist at the Charleston Museum in South Carolina. By allowing me to sketch, measure and photograph the century-old skins in his collection, he enabled me to create a reasonable facsimile of this now long-extinct bird.


	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.