From April 7 through 13, celebrate National Week of the Ocean.
Conservation groups highlight humanity's interdependence with the ocean, so that we appreciate and protect those wondrous ecosystems.
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A Watery World
From April 7 through 13, celebrate National Week of the Ocean.
Conservation groups highlight humanity's interdependence with the ocean, so that we appreciate and protect those wondrous ecosystems.
In today's featured artwork, Ann McCoy depicts the magic and mystery of aquatic life. In 1974 McCoy first exhibited drawings of underwater explorations. A scuba diver since 1968, McCoy works from photographs of the plant and animal life of the subaquatic world, creating drawings and hand-colored lithographs distinctive for their meticulous detail and surrealistic mood.
This artwork is from McCoy's "Night Sea" series, which reveals creatures who appear only in the ocean's darkness. The Gaelic title means "as the star shines on the water."
Source: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987).
Pictured: Ann McCoy, born 1946, Ach Rèalt ini ga ar an Uisage, 1979, graphite, acrylic, and crayon on paper mounted on canvas, 81 1/2 x 145 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation.