By: David Avery

Medium: Etching
EditionSize: 30
ImageSize: 6.88 x 5.88 inches
Year: 2017

The Last Roundup is a richly layered allegorical etching by David Avery, centered on a skeletal figure astride a mechanical contraption that merges agricultural imagery with instruments of industry and war. The skeletal rider raises a hat in a gesture that is part salute, part farewell, evoking themes of mortality, inevitability, and the closing of an era. Around the central figure, fragmented scenes of destruction, absurdity, and survival unfold—barrels burst, machines falter, and hybrid creatures scatter across a desolate landscape.