BIRDS OF ALL KINDS

"I got a call from Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine. Someone had claimed to have rediscovered the ivory-billed woodpecker in the swamps of Louisiana. He got permission for me to take the best study skin of an ivory-billed woodpecker from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I took it home and worked round the clock for four days to meet the magazine's deadline. The painting was done back in 1966. Typical Coheleach back then: white background, very detailed, incredibly scientific approach to it. Still, it is very design-y, I like to think, which is the reason for including it here."