Tim Flach British, b. 1958
California Quail, 2021
Series: Birds
C-Type print
122 x 105.5 cm
48 1/8 x 41 1/2 in
48 1/8 x 41 1/2 in
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
70 x 60.5 cm
27 1/2 x 23 7/8 in
27 1/2 x 23 7/8 in
Edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs
Further images
'In 1911, Joseph Grinnell, a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, spent a year traveling through the state, meticulously cataloguing the identity and behavior of every bird...
"In 1911, Joseph Grinnell, a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, spent a year traveling through the state, meticulously cataloguing the identity and behavior of every bird he saw. One hundred years later, researchers at the same institution retraced his footsteps to analyze how the avifauna had changed and made a telling discovery: resident birds like the California quail now nest two weeks earlier in the spring to avoid the hotter temperatures associated with a warming climate."
Excerpt from "Birds, published by Abrams, 2021
Excerpt from "Birds, published by Abrams, 2021
Provenance
"In 1911, Joseph Grinnell, a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, spent a year traveling through the state, meticulously cataloguing the identity and behavior of every bird he saw. One hundred years later, researchers at the same institution retraced his footsteps to analyze how the avifauna had changed and made a telling discovery: resident birds like the California quail now nest two weeks earlier in the spring to avoid the hotter temperatures associated with a warming climate."Excerpt from "Birds", published by Abrams, 2021