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Fish Hawk

Artist Frank Weston Benson (American, 1862-1951)

Date1913

Dimensions11 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Joseph Hearst

Object number

1951.412

Not on View

Label TextFrank Benson wrote about his bird prints, “I try to make [the birds] part of the landscape in which they occur rather than to describe them as specimens. The thing I most enjoy about them is their wildness.” The “wildness” of the Osprey—a large, fish-eating hawk—is on display in this print as it grasps a fish in its talons, having just dove talons-first into the water to snatch it. Ospreys migrate through the Lake Erie marshes in the spring and can occasionally be spotted diving for fish in the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge and Magee Marsh Wildlife Area in Ottawa County.Published ReferencesPaff catalogue 18Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, For the Birds, April 13-October 14, 2012.