Note on Food

Note on Food

A note on fish, and fly fishing.

This note (written on top the title page of Cam Sigler’s Guide to Fly Fishing, from 1997) provides a playful musing on fish, and more specifically fly fishing. The document is chock-full of pseudo-cerebral sayings such as, “kiss a fish”, “think like a fish”, “the art of wooing a fish”, and “what the fish said”. Parallel to these phrases, Neiman has listed as set of actions related to fishing (e.g. “strike / fish bites”, “net the fish”, “it takes more skill to return a fish safely (undamaged)”). The artist was self-professedly poor at fly fishing.

LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Foundation

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c. 1990-2011

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Notes

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English

Document

LN_Notes_2955_01; LN_Notes_2955_02

New York (N.Y.) New York

Fly-fishing
Kiss a fish
think like a fish
fish "16 field of vision
ideal for the fishes diet
real
line
(strike / fish bites)
Fish run when hooked
beach of fish (from boat)
net the fish
It takes more skill to return
a fish safely (undamaged)
What the fish said
The Art of Wooing the fish
fly Tiger
Fly
ice fishing in Minnesota
thru the ice //

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Pencil, pen, and felt-tip pen on print.