Study for Thaw

Description

Chicago-based artist Julia Fish has a particular affinity for working on paper. Over the years, she has created series of drawings in various media that extend her painting ideas but also exist as independent bodies of work. Always focused on her immediate environment, Fish creates drawings based on memories and observations of the conditions in her garden and the physical properties of her house’s interior and exterior. She employs media to evoke—rather than mimic—physicality, touch, and time, as seen here.

Study for Thaw

Julia Fish

1989

Accession Number

220548

Medium

Chalk pastel on brown wove paper

Dimensions

17.8 × 31.7 cm (7 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.)

Classification

drawings (visual works)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Thomas Heagy