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Channel Bass
Painted looking straight down into deep water. The whole sheet was flooded teal first; then the fish was lifted out of it with clean water and a rag while everything was still damp. That flash of red at the gill is the only warm note on the paper, and the entire painting exists to make it ring.
Placeholder artwork: “Channel Bass (1904)” by Winslow Homer, public domain via The Met.