People on a Ship with Some Dancing Girls
People on a Ship with Some Dancing Girls

© Estate of Georgia Speller / photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio

People on a Ship with Some Dancing Girls
People on a Ship with Some Dancing Girls

Currently not on view

Princeton Collects

People on a Ship with Some Dancing Girls,

1986

Georgia Speller, 1931–1988; born Aberdeen, MS; died, Memphis, TN; active Memphis
2021-58

Information

Title
People on a Ship with Some Dancing Girls
Dates

1986

Maker
Georgia Speller
Medium
Tempera and graphite
Dimensions
45.7 × 60.7 cm (18 × 23 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund, and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Object Number
2021-58
Place Made

North America, United States, Tennessee, Memphis

Inscription
on verso in graphite: Ship Out on the Water Carried by the Wind
Culture
American
Type
drawings
Materials
graphite, paint
Subject
riverboats, dancers, figures (representations), moons, suns, rivers

the artist, Memphis, Tenn. (until 1988; in 1988 purchased by William S. Arnett); William S. Arnett, Atlanta (1988-2012; in 2012 his gift to Souls Grown Deep Foundation); Souls Grown Deep Foundation, Atlanta

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