Drypoint Number One: Portrait
Medium
Drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (10 × 8 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 20.4 cm (10 5/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12006
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...