Nude
Augustus John
1876 to 1900
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 27 × 17.6 cm (10 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.) mount: 37.7 × 27.5 cm (14 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.5144
About the Artist
Augustus John
Augustus Edwin John OM RA (1878–1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher whose prodigious early gifts made him the most celebrated portraitist in Britain during the first decades of the twentieth century. Born on 4 January 1878 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, he lost his mother Augusta Smith in childhood, a loss that left a permanent mark on his restless temperament. He and his elder sister Gwe...