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Catalog Number |
2014.01.05 |
Title |
Black Night for the Bluefish |
Artist |
Smith III, Lee N. |
Date |
1982 |
Medium |
Mixed Media |
Material |
Oil Paint/Panel/Metal/Wood/Wire |
Dimensions |
H-84 W-84 D-4 inches |
Accession number |
2014.01 |
Description |
Mixed media- oil painting with metal, wood, and wire components. A group of people sit around a small tub full of fish, holding them and examinging them outside of a shed. Beneath the painting, fish sculptures hang on the wire mesh. Artist Lee N. Smith III moved to Dallas from New Orleans at the age of six. Smith has had no formal art training, but began in 1974 and was selected as one of less than thirty artists chosen to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. Smith quickly became acclaimed for painting and prints that draw from his childhood memories, often set in surreal suburban landscapes using vivid colors. |
Caption |
Black Night for the Bluefish |
Culture |
American |
Collection |
TMA |
Cataloged by |
Harris, Stephanie |
Credit Line |
Bequest of Sonny Burt and Bob Butler, Dallas, Texas |
Source |
Sonny Burt and Bob Butler |