Sparrow's Song
Artist
Irene Ingalls
MediumGouache on board
Dimensions15 x 16 in. (38.1 x 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift to the City of Seattle Portable Works Collection
When words and musical notation apparently proved inadequate to describe the Sparrow's song, the artist improvised an alphabet of wiggly black calligraphic lines which she brushed upon a block of bright color in order to reproduce the feeling of its singing.