1893
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Reading (Mr. and Mrs. Ch. Deering) is a 1893 ink by Anders Zorn, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows two people sitting close together in a dim room. One wears a hat and a heavy coat, while the other has a shawl draped over their shoulders. The lines are loose and scratchy, giving everything a rough, textured look. The focus is on the quiet moment between them—no grand gestures, just two figures lost in their own world. The artist used a method that lets ink sit in the grooves of the plate, creating this grainy, almost sketchy feel. Try looking up *etching* to see how this technique 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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