Frog and butterfly

Art

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Exhibit Envoy

Name/Title

Frog and butterfly

Entry/Object ID

MMP.17

Description

Serigraph

Collection

C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis

Made/Created

Artist

Susan Point

Date made

1990

Dimensions

Height

20 in

Width

20 in

Depth

1-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

not framed yet

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Tombstone Label

Label

Susan Point Coast Salish, b. 1952 Frog and Butterfly, 1990 Serigraph Collection of the C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis. Gift of John W. Brinley. Susan Point is a Coast Salish artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. In Northwest Coast cultures, Butterfly is often associated with transformation, resurrection, beauty, and grace, while Frog is revered for its adaptability: inhabiting the worlds of land and water, the natural and supernatural. It is said that the touch of Frog’s tongue on another initiates an exchange of knowledge and power.