Liberty Leading Her People: original pastel

A valiant Fox Queen stands over the body of a bald eagle, while her three kits, one injured, eagerly nurse. The eagle is sprawled upon ground that grows only a few bunches of dried grass, and two ears of maize rot in the foreground. Underneath the body of the eagle are spots of blood, and from these clover grows. Coming through a dry cornfield and up the hill to join the Fox Queen is a band of eager foxes, and on the horizon, running under bare trees, are even more foxes. They are converging, along with a storm of crows, upon a forested hill where an eagle’s nest is surrounded by trees of green and clouds of polluted air.

pastel on board, in gray wooden frame, 24 x 36″