Drypoint Number Four: Portrait
Medium
Drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.2 × 12.4 cm (6 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 15.7 × 13 cm (6 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 16.4 × 13 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12014
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...