Pencil drawing titled "Empty Nest". By Jackie McFarland. Depicts a birds's nest among tree branches. The artist's signature appears on the lower right hand "McFarland '79". Drawing is matted in a grey french matt & framed in a silver-colored frame. Period: 1979

Empty Nest
Jackie McFarland
1979
Pencil on paper
Purchased by the Fine Arts Committee

Active in the Denver area beginning in the 1960s, artist Jackie McFarland worked predominately with watercolors, and was a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society.

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