{"id":7334,"date":"2018-02-09T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2018-02-06T09:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:56:46","slug":"clive-smith-at-marc-straus-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/clive-smith-at-marc-straus-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Smith at Marc Straus Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once so abundant in the U.S. that their flocks sounded like thunder as they darkened the sky, passenger pigeons were hunted to extinction by the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. The final survivor, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo over one hundred years ago, but inspired New York-based British realist painter Clive Smith\u2019s painting of a commemorative plate, now on view at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcstraus.com\/exhibitions\/clive-smith-jan-2018\/\">Marc Straus Gallery<\/a> on the Lower East Side. Titled \u2018Beak, Claw, Hand, Brush,\u2019 this and other works in Smith\u2019s series equate the labor of beak and hand, soberly suggesting that our own future may go the way of the passenger pigeon. (On view through Feb 9<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7335\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7335\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7335\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/clive_smith-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clive Smith, Beak, Claw, Hand, Brush, (1.9.1914), oil on linen, 54 x 71 inches, 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once so abundant in the U.S. that their flocks sounded like thunder as they darkened the sky, passenger pigeons were hunted to extinction by the early 20th century. The final survivor, Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo over one hundred years ago, but inspired New York-based British realist painter Clive Smith\u2019s painting of a commemorative &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/clive-smith-at-marc-straus-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clive Smith at Marc Straus Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[7820,7822,7821,7819,7825,4014,3544,4241,7824,4973,856,33,7823,5850,2041],"class_list":["post-7334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-beak","tag-brush","tag-claw","tag-clive-smith","tag-commemorative","tag-extinction","tag-hand","tag-marc-straus","tag-martha","tag-nest","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-passenger-pigeon","tag-plate","tag-realism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1Ui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}