Provenance
Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts directly from the artist
Artist Statement
"A warm traditional setting of water pitcher and fruit aren't enough to keep the spirits of these two orioles from taking the opportunity to escape when the canvas tears. I enjoy the technical challenge of showing the difference between the two dimensional quality of the bird left behind and the more three dimensional sense of the liberated birds. The painting is of course, as most of my work is, a metaphor for the desire for liberation."
—Mary Kay West
