Grainger McKoy: Wood Duck

Brookgreen Exhibit: 1999

I've always been intrigued with the idea of birds becoming an extension of their habitat or vice versa. I tried to engage this thought by allowing the oak leaves not only to support the bird, but also to represent his left wing by framing the space it would occupy if it existed. This idea replicates itself if you look closely into the shadow cast above.

Wood Duck: 1984
Basswood, walnut, metal, and oil paint
Collection of Artist


	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.