1904
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Emma Rasmussen is a 1904 ink by Anders Zorn, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a woman’s face and shoulders in profile, turned slightly toward us. Her hair is pulled back, and she wears a high collar. The lines are loose and scratchy, with a lot of shading around her neck and hair. The artist used a mix of dark and light lines to show depth, almost like scribbling over the paper. This technique is called drypoint—it’s a way to make prints by scratching directly into a metal plate. Look up technique: etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how it works.
Anders Leonard Zorn was born in February 1860 in Mora, Dalarna, the illegitimate son of a Bavarian brewer and a Swedish farmer's daughter; his mother died shortly after his birth, and his grandparents raised him.
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