Lady G., lb., Fly Away Home

April 1970

Bea Nettles

Associated Names
Bea Nettles

Artist, American, born 1946

The image shows overlapping shapes and lines forming an abstract composition. Some delicate white line drawings of insect-like forms are depicted at the top against a muted background. Below these, torn layers reveal parts of sketched human faces faintly drawn beneath cloudy, textured surfaces. The faces connect the artwork to human features, adding a mysterious element to the collage. The composition is unified by a subtle wash of earthy tones, with scattered reddish-brown spots across the surface.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print and tracing paper with graphite, stitching, and insect parts

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Joshua P. Smith)

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 24.77 × 19.05 cm (9 3/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
    mount: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.4943

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joshua P. Smith, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist on mount, lower right below image in graphite: Nettles 4-70; lower left below image: Lady G., lb., fly away home; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 2003.24.35; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, bottom right: 79:097

Wikidata ID

Q64145101

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