Walton Ford (United States, b. 1960), Benjamin’s Emblem, 2000. Edition 6/50. Etching, Aquatint, and Drypoint on Paper. 44 x 31 inches. Gift of the 2009 and 2010 Collectors Circles, National Museum of Wildlife Art. © Walton Ford.
“I wanted to take the language
of the nineteenth-century natural-history illustrators and use it...to plumb our own collective ways of thinking about the natural world and these beings we share the planet with.” – Walton Ford 13