Rock Fish, Naive/Brutalist (and Very Rocky Fish-y) 1979 Intaglio Print, Signed Swift hand-crafted box and nuance to the painting

and nuance to the painting as a whole in person (there's a special quality to an oil painting on wood that seems to elude documentation)

easy to grab like a handle and good in the hand

and with what to be a couple of organic growths (seeds or pods of some sort) dangling from the sides

early nineteenth-century English essayist

Rock Fish, Naive/Brutalist (and Very Rocky Fish-y) 1979 Intaglio Print, Signed Swift hand-crafted box and nuance to the paintingMy first photo here is not great, but I think this print is capturing not just the likeness but the soul and spirit of the "Rock Fish" in a wonderfully visceral and immediate way that makes me think of Inuit stone cut prints from the same period. I found this not far from me, very near the coast, so have to think it is an Atlantic variety represented! I can't quite discern the first name of the artist but the last is Swift (the third.) I might guess