1890
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Lawyer Wade is a 1890 ink by Anders Zorn, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a man’s face in profile, turned slightly toward us. His hair is thick and wavy, and he wears a high-collared coat. The lines are all scratchy and layered, giving the whole image a rough, textured look—like the artist kept pressing the tool into the paper over and over. The edges of the paper are messy, with stray marks and smudges, as if the artist was still working when they stopped. The technique used here is called *etching*, where acid eats into a metal plate to create the lines. Next, check out etching to see how artists use acid and tools to make prints.
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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