Portrait of the Artist
Medium
Drypoint in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 6.9 × 5.1 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/16 in.); Sheet: 8.5 × 6.4 cm (3 3/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11823
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...