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Volume 12, Number 1—January 2006
THEME ISSUE
Influenza
Another Dimension

Influenza and the Origins of The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

David M. Morens*Comments to Author  and Jeffery K. Taubenberger†
Author affiliations: *National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; †Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA

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Figure 1

Dead Bird, by the influential 19th-century American artist Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), was first seen by Duncan Phillips no later than 1916 but was not purchased for the collection until it became available a decade later. The major scholarly catalog of The Phillips Collection, The Eye of Duncan Phillips: a Collection in the Making (1), calls Dead Bird "one of Ryder's most powerful images," noting that it "explores a recurrent illusory theme: the coexistence of the corporeal and the ethere

Figure 1. Dead Bird, by the influential 19th-century American artist Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917), was first seen by Duncan Phillips no later than 1916 but was not purchased for the collection until it became available a decade later. The major scholarly catalog of The Phillips Collection, The Eye of Duncan Phillips: a Collection in the Making (1), calls Dead Bird "one of Ryder's most powerful images," noting that it "explores a recurrent illusory theme: the coexistence of the corporeal and the ethereal," and that "[s]uch starkly realistic details as the rigidly curled claws, rendered in heavy impasto, and the subtle textured contrasts of plumage and beak, create a moving evocation of suffering and death." - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Reproduced with permission.

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References
  1. Tebow  E. Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917). In: Passantino ED, editor. The eye of Duncan Phillips: a collection in the making. 3. The American vision. Part I: The American tradition and American impressionism. New Haven (CT): The Phillips Collection in association with Yale University Press; 1999; p. 141–5.
  2. Phillips  D. More or less autobiographical. In: Phillips D. A collection in the making. Washington: E. Weyhe; 1926. p. 3–4.
  3. Wolfe  T. Look homeward, angel: a story of the buried life. New York: Scribner's; 1929.
  4. Porter  KA. Pale horse, pale rider; three short novels. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.; 1939.

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