Fish
1980
Artist, American, 1900 - 1982

Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor, marker, grease pencil, and graphite on wove watercolor paper
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Credit Line
Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
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Dimensions
sheet: 45.72 × 60.96 cm (18 × 24 in.)
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Accession
2020.28.20
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist, Atlanta, Georgia; 1982 Judith Alexander, Atlanta, Georgia; 1995 William S. Arnett, Atlanta, Georgia; 2012 gift to the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia; 2020 purchased by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2022
Called to Create: Black Artists of the American South, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022-2023.
Bibliography
2000
Arnett, Paul, and William Arnett. Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South. 2 vols. Atlanta, 2000-2001: vol. 1, p. 294, pl. 296, repro, p. 297.
Inscriptions
lower right in ink: Nellie Mae Rowe