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Rhinos

Imbued with a sense of whimsy, Adonna Khare’s large drawings of animals exhibiting human behaviors include subtle, but plentiful environmental statements. Her technical skill invites us in for a closer look and evokes an emotional response. Through her work, she encourages us to reexamine our relationship to animals. Here, Khare includes pierced and peeling rhinoceros horns to criticize their sale, which has decimated the animal’s populations, rendering many rhinoceros species critically endangered.

ArtistAdonna Khare, born 1980
Date2014
MediumCarbon pencil on paper
Dimensions98 1/4 x 76 1/2 x 2 in.
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
ClassificationDrawing
On ViewNo
Rhinos98.3 × 76.5 in.Standard/Movie Poster40 × 27 in.

This artwork's face covers about 7.0× the area of a standard movie poster.Drawn to the same scale.