Mr. and Mrs. Atherton Curtis
Medium
Etching; second state of three
Dimensions
Plate: 9 7/16 × 7 1/4 in. (24 × 18.4 cm) Sheet: 11 13/16 × 9 7/16 in. (30 × 24 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Elisha Whittelsey Collection, Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983
Accession Number
1983.1082
Tags
About the Artist
Anders Zorn|Atherton Curtis|Louise Burleigh Curtis · 1860–1920
Anders Zorn (1860–1920), one of Sweden's most celebrated artists, was born on February 18 in Utmeland near Mora in Dalarna, and raised on his maternal grandparents' farm in the nearby hamlet of Yvraden. Displaying prodigious talent from a young age, he attended school in Mora Strand until age twelve, followed by secondary grammar school in Enköping, where he excelled in drawing people and horses. ...