I keep this collection to eight pieces from two sculptors on purpose: Casey Parlette and Nano Lopez come at fish from completely different directions, and between them you get the full range of what metal fish wall art can be — a single 36-inch wahoo carved from wood, or a pair of palm-sized bronze companions.

Wood and bronze, cast bronze and patina

Parlette's six pieces — Wahoo, Wahoo School, Barracuda, Barracuda School, Mahi Mahi, and Mahi Mahi School — are built, not cast. A wahoo's body is carved from curly maple, bent to hold the fish's natural curve, with a hammered and welded bronze head, saw-blade teeth, and polished stainless steel eyes. The barracuda pieces are curly redwood and bronze. The mahi-mahi are quilted maple with small pieces of abalone shell inlaid to mimic their freckled spots — real mahi-mahi shift color as they swim, cobalt to yellow-gold. All of them mount flat to the wall, and the school pieces can be arranged however the space calls for.

Lopez's two pieces, "Fishies Going Right" and "Fishies Going Left," work at a different scale entirely — 6 by 10 inches each, a school of four bronze fish per piece, cast in an edition of 880. The color comes from patina work directly on the bronze: teals shifting into golden ambers and orange.

Prices here run $4,080 to $35,280, median $19,200. All eight are available, and the school pieces are ordered by fish count — three, four, five, six or seven — so the size of the arrangement is your call rather than whatever happens to be on hand. Bronze reads differently in person than on a screen; the weight and the surface work are things a photograph just can't carry, which is true of foundry bronze generally, not just these eight. Call us about arranging a school across an odd-shaped wall.

— Steve Schlag, founder, Dolphin Galleries