Sweet Pine [working proof 5C]
1997
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color aquatint on wove Somerset paper [working proof 5C]
Dimensions
17 x 42 in.
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.31
Art Historical Context
Anne Appleby’s *Sweet Pine [working proof 5C]* (1997) is a color aquatint printed on wove Somerset paper, measuring 17 by 42 inches. As a working proof, the print captures an intermediate stage in the artist’s process, revealing how layers of color and tone were refined before the final edition. The elongated horizontal format and title suggest a meditative study of the natural world, distilling the essence of a pine tree or its scent into subtle tonal fields. Aquatint, prized for its ability to produce velvety, continuous tones rather than sharp lines, allows Appleby to evoke atmospheric dep...
About the Artist
Anne Appleby
Anne Appleby is an American painter known for her quietly radical abstract paintings that emerge from sustained attention to the natural world. Working primarily in Montana, Appleby has developed a practice rooted in intensive, long-term observation of specific plants and trees through the cycles of seasons, using the information gathered through this meditative looking as the basis for paintings ...