A watercolor painting of a black-and-white duck with an orange, yellow, and black beak, and white eyes swimming in a body of water.

Surf Scoter

Scott Gentling (1942-2011)

Date

1984
Medium

Graphite, opaque and transparent watercolor on paper
Dimensions

Sheet: 22 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.
Image: 20 1/8 x 26 1/8 in.
Inscriptions

Sheet, Recto:
l.l. in graphite: Scott Gentling Aug 1984
l.c. in graphite: Surf Scoter \ Melanitta perspicillata
Collection Name

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History Gentling Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Accession Number

2018.23
Copyright

© Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Tracing the Past: Scott and Stuart Gentling’s Birds of Texas

December 7, 2019–March 8, 2020

Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Gentling paid tribute to their artistic predecessors in their watercolors, carefully reinventing historical poses and compositions of birds before inserting them in backdrops of unique Texas landscapes.

Location: Off view

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