Artwork copyright Emily Silver. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission.

Crab Claw, 1981

Emily Silver
American (born 1951)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia

About the Artwork

Crab Claw is part of artist Emily Silver's body of still life paintings. This composition plays with pattern, color, and negative space. She notes, "The rolling blue striped cloth at the top of the page suggests the landscape-like element which reflects my consideration that the tiny still lives I assemble are microcosms for a larger, somewhat surreal, imagined world."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.

About the Artist

Emily Silver is a California-based artist. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1973.
Silver received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. She is an associate faculty member at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. She previously lived in Pullman, Eastern Washington, where she served as a Graphic Design and Ilustration instructor at Washington State University from 1981 to 1988.