Endangered Species (complete set)
Endangered Species (complete set)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
96 x 96cm, Edition of 150, Screenprint, 1983
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Meaning & Analysis
Endangered Species (complete set) is a 1983 screenprint portfolio by Andy Warhol of ten animals threatened with extinction. The subjects are the African elephant, Pine Barrens tree frog, giant panda, bald eagle, Siberian tiger, San Francisco silverspot butterfly, orangutan, Grevy’s zebra, black rhinoceros and bighorn ram. The set is signed and published in an edition of 150.
In 1983 Warhol turned from people and products to animals, producing a portfolio of ten species that were then at risk of extinction. The subjects are shown close up and almost always head-on or in profile, filling the square sheet, in the same way that his celebrity portraits fill the frame. The animals are treated as images, taken from photographs and then simplified, outlined and recoloured.
The colour is the most striking feature of the series. The animals sit against flat grounds of peach, cobalt and plum, among others. Fine coloured outlines run around the forms, slightly offset from the printed shapes. The textures of fur, scale, feather and skin are rendered in dense, detailed screens.
The Endangered Species series connects Warhol’s celebrity method with a public cause. Its subject has grown even more pertinent since 1983.
