Sunlight and Shadows, No. 3
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Addie Burr Clark
Accession Number
1946.9.132
Art Historical Context
**Sunlight and Shadows,. 3** is a delicate etching created by Donald Shaw MacLaugh in 1913, now housed in the National of Art as a generous gift from Addie Burr. MacLaughlan, a Canadian printmaker (1875–1962), was renowned his masterful etchings that captured the subtle interplay of light and atmosphere in landscapes and architecture. Trained in Paris and influenced by McNeill Whistler, contributed to the early 20th-century etching revival, movement that elevated printmaking as a fine art form accessible to collectors beyond paintings. This work, part of MacLaughlan's evocative "Sunlight and ...
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...