Artwork copyright Peggy Hitchcock. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2016.

Artwork copyright Peggy Hitchcock. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Waiting for Dinner, 1987

Peggy Hitchcock
American (born 1951)

Location: Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary, Yakima

About the Artwork

Peggy Hitchcock created Waiting for Dinner through a process of screen printing photographs onto shaped canvases that she arranges into what she terms a "constellation." It combines an image of two Eskimo girls with images of fish to represent the circle of life and nourishment. The fish screens are some of Hitchcock’s favorites and she uses them repeatedly in multiple artworks. She notes that the fish are dinner, but they also reference the rich folk lore of fish. Other imagery includes edible plants and a rock drawing.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Yakima School District.

About the Artist

Northwest artist Peggy Hitchcock creates paintings and wall sculptures that explore pattern and form. In most of her artworks, she uses silkscreened and photocopied images based on books, magazines, and other media. She has a library of hundreds of screens that reference history, decorative patterns, the natural world, and much more. Hitchcock explains that part of the beauty of art is that it is "language for our eyes." She grew up in Ohio and has lived and worked in Seattle since the early 1980s.