A mysterious creature, perhaps a pig, appears to be fleeing across a dark and rocky landscape. While the exact story behind this painting is unknown, Perna Krick may have been inspired by the Orkney Islands, an archipelago north of Scotland once inhabited by the Pict tribe. Etymologists have interpreted the Pictish term “orc” as referring to “young pigs.” The artist was a Baltimore-based painter and sculptor. Along with her husband, sculptor Reuben Kramer (1909–1999), she founded Fellowship House, the first desegregated art school in Maryland. Krick’s most well-known sculpture, Young Siren, is installed in the Children’s Room in the main branch of Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Library.