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Stan Washburn (American, b. 1943)

Zookeeper, from the series A Moral Alphabet of Vice and Folly

Date: 1984
Medium: Etching
Object Dimensions: 16 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (41.28 x 37.47 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2002.008.01.27
Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang
A Zookeeper, a most kindly man, declined to qualify his whiskey with water. “Our forest friends never comingle the two cardinal beverages,” he would say, “and neither shall I.”
Moral: Never be diverted from a sound policy.

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