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The Sewer Swine of the South Branch

BD Mead

Gouache and ink on paper

20in x 16in

$666

Comic-poster style painting of a massive dark boar with curved tusks and glowing red eyes standing in blood-red water under a stone sewer arch. Behind it is an orange sky over the Union Stockyards gate, and a column of three pig heads on the right decays from bloodied flesh to bare skull. Yellow caption boxes tell the story: "In the early 1900s, the Union Stockyards of Chicago butchered millions of animals a year. One grisly night lightning struck the slaughterhouse. Amid the chaos one massive boar slipped away into the labyrinth of waste. Engorged on the discarded carcasses of its own kind, it survived. And it became..." The title, "The Sewer Swine of the South Branch," appears in large red and yellow letters.
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