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Queer Fish

1936

Mabel Dwight

Associated Names

Mabel Dwight

Artist, American, 1875 - 1955

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

American Artists Group

Publisher

This is a drawing of a fish tank with a fish and a ray swimming inside. The fish has an expressive face and the ray is gliding in the background. The scene depicts an aquarium viewed through a framed glass panel, creating a public viewing display of underwater creatures. The drawing is detailed and shaded to create depth and realism.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 26.99 × 33.02 cm (10 5/8 × 13 in.)
sheet: 31.12 × 45.4 cm (12 1/4 × 17 7/8 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.1562
Catalogue Raisonné

Robinson & Pirog 1997, no. 80

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2016

Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 86.

Bibliography

1997

Robinson, Susan Barnes, and John Pirog. Mabel Dwight: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Lithographs. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997, pp. 116-117, no. 80.

Watermarks

Rives

Wikidata ID

Q76456341

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