New Aquired mixed media painting. ANY INFO??

I do know that the person in paper is a food critic from Philadelphia Inquirer. He also recently passed so this could have been his estate. Also got an unsigned Warhol that I am having looked at.

 

That's nice. A subtle little commentary on criticism. ("Fish & chip paper.) Artist is likely Drummond. What was the name of the critic?

Debora

 

food critic is William Bill Collins. With Philadelphia Inquirer Food department.

 

Kind of reminds me of a "fish print" - an image taken from a real dead fish!
IF that was the origin of the fish, I do think the artist may have done some painting back into it.

What type of paper, cardboard, canvas is this collaged on?

 

Bit of a reach here but could it be J. Drummond Ferris?

https://www.instagram.com/ferriswheelarts/

 

Its on board I think the fish may have meen used for texture.

 

The critic was working in 80's and 90's

 

Now it has not been cleaned since I got it looks like prievious owner had birds and cats. Looks like early 80's with the black canvas and gold trimmed wood frame View attachment 274006

 

Soylent Green was released in 1973 and Slither in 2006.

Debora

 

Maybe a comment on the Philadelphia Inquirer, i.e. "suitable for wrapping fish"

 

Ok, so now with the additional photo, I can see it is a fish print - where the artist takes a dead fish, inks it, and pulls a print on paper from it. Now I can see the fish is on paper that has been glued down for the collage.

Here is a wiki link to gotoyu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyotaku

 

I love it and it is beautiful. Still like to know who the artist is and the story behind it. William Collins had recently passed. He was the retired critic who wrote for newspaper and is photo in paper with his column.

 

Slither was also a 1973 Comedy

 

thank you for noticing that. Big help.

 

Well, done for 1970s reference to Slither. I couldn't find one but suspected one existed. That's a date then. 1973.

Debora

 

I took a look, and definitely think it could be.
Fortunately, @mdlock she is still living and can maybe email her to ask if it is one of hers.

 

I looked at her works and I don't think didnt see anything in same style. But I'm not an expert. Another I thought could be is J. A. Drummond daughter of i think David Drummond. But found nothing with just J

 

Here, I would consider both of these to be "in the same style" - the first does not appear to be a collage of gotoyu, but rather a collage of fish and other elements similarly colored. The second (a shaped panel standing up in the back of the picture) has her name with lettering similar.

 

Artists do not sign same names always.

 

I don't see works of hers that look anything like mine does. Plus mine being from the 70's. Does she have works from then? These all look rather modern to me.