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THE SECRET BIRDS. An Exhibit by Tony Fitzpatrick. The Poetry Foundation exhibited Tony Fitzpatrick’s final show of drawings before he left Chicago for New Orleans. The work interlaces poetry, ephemera, and his institutional memory of the city itself: “a bird made from bright planets.”
Jul 1, 2014 · The Secret Birds, a clutch of fantastic creatures of the artist’s own invention, is Fitzpatrick’s final show of drawings before leaving Chicago for New Orleans, where he will study ornithology and natural history at the University of New Orleans.
Jun 14, 2016 · Dozens of his intricately patterned, layered, tattoo-like collages, drawings, and paintings pulse with energy, tough romanticism, and wry wit, works shaped by Fitzpatrick’s evocative lexicon of birds, flowers, pinups, constellations, dogs, numbers, logos, and cartoon characters. ―Booklist.
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May 12 – August 21 / 2016. Tony Fitzpatrick, Peregrine of Chicago, 2014. Collection of Dr. Margaret Dickerson. In his ongoing series “The Secret Birds”, Tony Fitzpatrick intricately draws and layers images, poetry and found materials onto the page.
Jul 1, 2014 · The work interlaces poetry, ephemera, and his institutional memory of the city itself: “a bird made from bright planets.” A play of The Secret Birds will be held at the Poetry Foundation on Thursday, July 31. Here Tony Fitzpatrick shares his stories of the birds that inspired these drawings.
Jun 25, 2014 · “The Secret Birds” is Fitzpatrick’s swan song before he flies south to New Orleans to enroll in classes at UNO and Tulane. He’ll study natural history and (naturally) ornithology. “I’ve done...
An instant USA Today bestseller! From the award-winning author of Song for a Whale comes a poignant and heartwarming tale about a girl who discovers a pair of endangered birds about to lay eggs in the marshes of her summer camp…and the secret plan she hatches to help them.
