![]() With this hanging of the two works, the curators of the exhibition animate a narrative about death between the carnivore that seeks it out and the prey that lies lifeless and helpless on the ground. 1 In effect, the raptor appears to be swooping down, ready to feed on the carrion of the dead crow. ![]() Winter Fields, which features a worm’s eye view of a dead black crow, hangs below it and off to the side at a diagonal (fig. An installation photograph has Wyeth’s drawing of the vulture, with its wings spread, soaring high on the wall. In 1943, the exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York put Andrew Wyeth’s drawing of a turkey buzzard and his tempera Winter Fields into dialogue with each other (fig. Artwork © 2021 Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photographic Archive, Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, photograph by Genevieve Nayln, digital image ©The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY. ![]() ![]() Installation view of the exhibition Americans 1943: Realists and Magic Realists, Museum of Modern Art, February 10, 1943–March 21, 1943. ![]()
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