Fisherman’s Pride, 1956, Oil on canvas, Collection of the Estate of David C. Driskell, Maryland

Audio Description

Fisherman’s Pride is an oil on canvas. It was painted in 1956. It is part of the Collection of the Estate of David C. Driskell in Maryland.

This is a horizontal oil painting on canvas called Fisherman’s Pride. It is an abstract painting featuring several fish depicted in varying detail with angular blocks of color in the background. There is an interrupted black line in the top left corner with a hook at the end, with two white fish around it, in reverse reflection of each other. Below them, behind a swath of red paint and angled toward the bottom edge, is a blue fish with a red eye. In the top middle of the painting is a white fish above a blue fish. Both face the left side of the painting and appear in front of a block of dark green. Below this green block is an irregular area of red, pink, yellow, and orange, making way for a blue space that takes up the right side. There, Driskell painted two small goldfish and a large blue and pink snail shell. In the top right corner of the canvas is a spot of red with two superimposed triangles that resemble mountains.

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