Profile with Baboons [working proof 3]
1994
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drypoint with spit bite aquatint, hard ground etching and burnishing on Somerset paper (WP 3 – red-brown drypoint, tan-pink spit bite background) [working proof 3]
Dimensions
35 x 28 in.
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.554
About the Artist
Nathan Oliveira
Nathan Oliveira (1928–2010) was an American painter and printmaker associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement who developed a distinctive approach to the human figure that balanced gestural expressionism with haunting psychological presence. Born in Oakland, California, to Portuguese immigrant parents, he studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and Mills College. Oliveira emerg...