Station [working proof 24]
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color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper (WP 24 – color proof, close to the edition)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.212
Art Historical Context
**Station [working proof 24]** by Christopher Brown (1993) invites visitors into the intimate world of printmaking experimentation. This color soft ground and spit bite aquatint on Somerset paper represents a working proof—specifically WP 24, a color proof very close to the final edition. Created in the early 1990s, it captures Brown's mastery of intaglio techniques during a vibrant era of contemporary American printmaking, when artists pushed boundaries with layered colors and textures. Soft ground etching allows for subtle impressions of textures pressed into the plate, while spit bite aqua...
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...