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Fish

Nellie Mae Rowe
  • NMR - Fish - Master Image

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1980
Felt-tip pen and pencil on paper
18 x 23 inches
Collection of
National Gallery of Art
Museum purchase and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Fish is about sex and reproduction, perhaps an observation about Rowe's own inability to bear children. Female reproductive organs are transformed into trees. A bird plucks a red, cherry-like fruit, while another pecks at an anthropomorphic bush.