“He did more than anyone else to blast a hole in the traditional tools and aesthetics of printmaking.”
—Kenneth Tyler on Frank Stella, quoted in Richard Axsom, Frank Stella Prints, 2016, p. 36
Continuing a memorializing tendency, the titles of the prints in the Exotic Bird Series correspond to names of endangered and extinct birds that Stella gathered from James C. Greenway Jr.’s Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World (New York: Dover Publications, 1967).