Aquatic Image

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Object Details

Artist

Marcia Lewis, born Washington, DC 1946

Luce Center Label

Aquatic Image is one of Marcia Lewis’s “fantasy fish,” a series of eight precious-metal brooches. The forms in Lewis’s jewelry reflect a lifetime spent near the coast, and this piece shows a tropical fish, with shimmers of light bouncing off its silvery scales.

Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist

Date

1980

Object number

1991.123

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Type

Decorative Arts-Jewelry

Crafts

Medium

repouseé, chased, soldered, and polished sterling silver and garnets

Dimensions

5 1/2 x 4 3/8 x 1/2 in. (14.0 x 11.1 x 1.2 cm.)

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department

Renwick Gallery

Data Source

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Topic

Animal\fish

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7dd2435a9-653a-413b-a6cf-b74289800b17

Record ID

saam_1991.123