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A tall, rectangular yellow painting featuring a dark, drippy black mass and thin, dark vertical lines, faint scribbles, and scattered splatters forming the outline of an alligator in water.
Swimming Gator
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Swimming Gator

Artist Hiram Williams (American, 1917 - 2003)
Date1993
MediumMixed media on canvas
DimensionsFrame: 49 1/2 x 27 in., (125.73 x 68.58 cm,)
Sight: 47 1/2 x 25 1/2 in., (120.65 x 64.77 cm,)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Hiram and Avonell Williams
Object number1993.5.39
Collections
Visual DescriptionA tall, rectangular yellow painting featuring a dark, drippy black mass and thin, dark vertical lines, faint scribbles, and scattered splatters forming the outline of an alligator in water.
Abstract mixed-media drawing on off-white paper featuring a central area of pale orange and pink wash. Surrounding this are faint graphite lines, scribbles, and smudges in grey and black.
Chorus Line Skinned
Hiram Williams
1986
An abstract painting on paper featuring muted earthy pink and brown washes, bisected by a faint horizontal line. A dark, blurred triangular shape occupies the lower center, pointing upwards toward the dividing line.
Beach Road (Audience Goes to Beach)
Hiram Williams
1985
A faint pencil outline of a head. The center features a diffused patch of red pigment containing a dark, jagged diagonal mark. A small grey smudge sits below the red.
Contented Man
Hiram Williams
1983
A drawing with a textured, dark brownish-grey undulating mound across the lower half, featuring a U-shaped dip in the center. Thin, erratic dark lines sprout upward from the mound into a smudged, off-white upper section.
Mystical Events in the Muncy Hills
Hiram Williams
1992
A drawing featuring a sloping, pale greenish-tan lower section beneath a central, shaded blue-grey rectangle. Thin, erratic dark lines stretch vertically and diagonally across the composition, overlapping both the pale and blue-grey areas.
Mysterious Events in the Great Smokies
Hiram Williams
1992
A drawing featuring a drawn upper border enclosing a smudged grey wash with thin diagonal lines. Below this is a thick, wavy reddish-brown band covered in short dark marks, with two vertical streaks extending into the blank white lower section.
Where Only Man is Vile
Hiram Williams
1992
Painting of an outline of face with white irregular brushstrokes at center. The background is comprised of loose brushstrokes in shades of green.
Curious Man
Hiram Williams
1965
A drawing featuring an earthy reddish-brown wash overlaid with thin, erratic, grass-like lines at the lower left. Three thick, textured white vertical strips span the composition.
Mountain Ranges and Beech (Audience Destroys its Environment)
Hiram Williams
1992
Print featuring thick black strokes, splatters, and mottled gray patches. Large, irregular shapes of orange, blue, dark green, and red overlap the dark marks. Thin blue zigzags and red circular scribbles are scattered throughout the composition.
Dixie Hi-Jinks
Lee R. Chesney II
1990
A drawing of a shaded, textured mound occupying the lower half. Several thin, sweeping upward-pointing arrows rise from the mound. An additional arrow points horizontally across the left side of the mound.
North Mountain and Religious Impulses
Hiram Williams
1991
Sketchy portrait drawing of a man with wild, thin grey hair and a long beard. The face appears weathered, rendered in muted greys, pinks, and blues. He wears a simple collared shirt outlined in pencil.
Lennie as a Sceptic
Hiram Williams
1980
Abstract drawing on tan paper. The top half features a dense cluster of chaotic, swirling brushstrokes in ochre, brown, and grey. Below this mass, faint pencil lines outline a simple, curved shape resembling a vase.
Snooty Bouquet
Hiram Williams
1986

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