In 1914, Martha, the planet's last passenger pigeon, died at the
Cincinnati Zoo. In summer 2013, ArtWorks turned John A. Ruthven's original painting of Martha and her flock, a masterpiece by the 20th Century Audubon, into a public mural. This video is a time lapse of the work that John A. Ruthven, Tim Parsley and 15
ArtWorks Youth Apprentices spent more than 103 days painting.
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