untitled (Shrimp Boats on the Creek)
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Description:
Watercolor on paper illustrating several boats outlined in black docked at a pier on an unidentified creek. The sky and water were evoked through two large washes of pigment. Ball then employed the wet-in-wet technique, applying pigment to the already wet surface.
- Title: untitled (Shrimp Boats on the Creek)
- Creator: Mary Wilson Ball, 1892-1984
- Date: Undated
- Culture: American
- School: Charleston Renaissance Movement
- Dimensions: H-14 W-10 inches
- Collection: Works on Paper Collection
- Object Name: Mary Wilson Ball Artwork
- Other Name: Watercolor on Paper
- Object Id: 1975.32.213b
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