  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Ode to the Magpie
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1998
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  C.R. Merkle  (Artist)
  Canadian, born 1957
  Frank Sudol  (Artist)
  Canadian, born 1933
  
  
  
  Medium
  Paper birch, acrylics, and mica flakes
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 10 3/4 × 4 5/8 inches (27.3 × 11.7 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Wood and Woodcarving
  
  
  Department
  Contemporary Art after 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of The Robert M. Bohlen Collection
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1999.1501
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
