1907
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Master-Smith is a 1907 ink by Anders Zorn, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows two men working with metal. One is hammering while the other holds a piece of hot iron, their faces and hands detailed but rough. The background is filled with quick, crisscrossed lines that suggest heat or movement, and a bench or anvil sits in the corner. The artist used a technique that lets ink sit in carved lines, creating deep shadows and texture. This makes the metalwork look almost three-dimensional. Next, check out etching to see how artists like this one 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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