- Title:
- Fisherwoman
- Object name(s):
- Prints; A fisherwoman pours pickle into a barrel of salted herrings
- Brief description:
- A young fisherwoman, wearing a long sleeved top, a headscarf and an apron tied at her waist, pours pickle from a bucket into a funnel and into one of five wooden barrels of salted herrings. Calm sea? in background. Black drawing, with erased highlights, reproduced in half tone. Printed in black, buff and pale grey-blue
- Collection:
- Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 1994
- Acquisition method:
- Gift
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension value:
- 355
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension value:
- 505
- Inscription content:
- (pencil, lower left corner of print) 25/50, (pencil, lower right corner of print) Crawford [artist's signature]
- Material:
- Offset colour lithograph with half tone on Rivoli acid free paper
- Object name:
- Prints; A fisherwoman pours pickle into a barrel of salted herrings
- Object number:
- PR1922
- Object production date:
- 1990
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1990
- Date - latest:
- 1990
- Object production person:
- Alistair Crawford
- Person's association:
- Artist/Maker
- Person's biographical note:
- Painter, printmaker, photographer, writer and performance artist. Studied textiles at Glasgow School of Art, 1962-66. Taught Textiles at the University of Leeds, 1968-71, and Graphic Design at Coventry Polytechnic, 1971-73, before teaching at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1974-2001, where he acted as Head of Department, 1986-95, and was awarded a Professorship in 1990. He has also worked as an Archive Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. Crawford has exhibited with the 56 Group Wales and in 1985 he won the Gold Medal at the National Eisteddfod. His written research includes monographs on the photographers Mario Giacomelli and Erich Lessing. His practical work - photography, etchings and paintings - is generally inspired by architecture, places and people
- Person's birth date:
- 1945
- Person's forenames:
- Alistair
- Person's place of birth:
- UK, Scotland, Fraserburgh
- Person's surname:
- Crawford
- Object production place:
- UK, Wales, Aberystwyth
- Owner:
- The artist
- Organisation's association:
- Object source
- Responsible department/section:
- Prints
- Text:
- Number 25 of an edition of 50 plus 11 artist's proofs. Printed by Andrew Baldwin at the School of Art, Llanbadarn Road, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The figure is based on a fairly well known albumen photograph of a Scottish girl gutting herring on the east coast of Scotland. The artist comments that ''the pickle she is pouring into the barrel is in homage to the Milk Pitcher, pouring for all time, by Vermeer''. The original drawing was made in 1987-8
- Text reason:
- Collections online text
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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