Unicorn Purifying Water

Jesse Waugh
Unicorn Purifying Water
2013
Oil on canvas
New York City

This is inspired by an exhibition I went to see entitled Search for the Unicorn at the Cloisters in upper Manhattan. There were a number of depictions of unicorns purifying streams. I wanted him to purify the ocean.

Unicorn Eye detail

Following are images from the Search for the Unicorn exhibition courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 

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