Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Study for an abstract scene, possibly the ocean floor. At center, a small fish in white outline, seemingly in the midst of being eaten by a larger fish, depicted only by a large white mouth with sharp teeth. Below, a sandy sea-bottom in orange and yellow. Background shaded in black.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Date
- 1935–1939
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.2 × 30.4 cm (9 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
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