four goldfish, stacked on right; three bottom-most goldfish with black shading; washy green background with dark green thin branches gathered at the bottom, moving upwards to top right; black border at right, left and top edges; gold border with small black snail shells in a line at bottom; white and black concentric circles above snail border

%C2%A9 Elizabeth Norton

Goldfish #1, 1924

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Elizabeth Norton’s love of animals dates to her childhood in Chicago, where she spent hours drawing at the Lincoln Park Zoo. The inscription “del., sc. et imp.” stands for delineavit, sculpsit, and impressit—Latin for drawn, carved, and printed. In an era of growing mass production, Norton may have wanted to specify that her woodcuts were original art personally made by her.

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Title
Goldfish #1
Artist Life
1887–1985
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.39.5
Provenance
(Paramour Fine Arts, Franklin, Mich., until 2018; sold to Kinney); Marla J. Kinney, Minneapolis (2018-19)
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four goldfish, stacked on right; three bottom-most goldfish with black shading; washy green background with dark green thin branches gathered at the bottom, moving upwards to top right; black border at right, left and top edges; gold border with small black snail shells in a line at bottom; white and black concentric circles above snail border

© Elizabeth Norton

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