Runner
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View on museum website →Medium
color softground etching with scraping and burnishing on Lana Royal White paper
Dimensions
image: 25.4 x 25.4 cm (10 x 10 in.) sheet: 45.7 x 43.2 cm (18 x 17 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.57
Art Historical Context
**Runner** by Christopher Brown (b. 1951), created in 1994, is a dynamic color softground etching housed in the National Gallery of's print collection. This intimate square image, 10 x 10 inches on a larger 18 x 17-inch sheet of Lana Royal White paper, was generously gifted by Kathan Brown a pivotal figure in American printmaking as founder of Crown Point Press. Brown's work often captures fluid motion and human energy, making *Runner* a fitting emblem his expressive style during the vibrant 1990s contemporary scene. The medium shines through innovative techniques: softground etching transfer...
About the Artist
Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown was born in 1951 at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and grew up in Warren, Ohio, and Urbana, Illinois. He earned a B.A. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1973, then pursued graduate study at the University of California, Davis, receiving his M.F.A. in 1976. At Davis he studied under three formative California artists—Wayne Thiebau...