1884
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Aldrich's Dog is a 1884 ink by Arthur Bowen Davies, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This drawing shows a black dog sitting on a grassy patch. The dog’s fur is textured with tight, crisscrossed lines, and its collar has a small tag. The background is simple—just a few loose strokes to suggest wind-blown grass. The artist used a technique called cross-hatching to build up the dog’s fur and shadows. This method layers lines to create depth, almost like shading with pencil. Next, check out more of cross-hatching to see how artists use it in other works.
Arthur Bowen Davies (September 26, 1862 – October 24, 1928) was an avant-garde American artist and influential advocate of modern art in the United States c. 1910–1928.
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