The Brook
Medium
color monoprint with drypoint and softground etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.48 × 22.86 cm (12 × 9 in.) sheet: 40.96 × 26.35 cm (16 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.614
About the Artist
George Overbury (Pop) Hart
George Overbury Hart (1868–1933), universally known by his affectionate nickname "Pop," was an American artist of irrepressible wanderlust and genuine originality whose career defied easy categorization. Born in Cairo, Illinois, he spent decades crisscrossing the globe — visiting Mexico, the Caribbean, North Africa, the South Pacific, and Central America — filling notebooks and canvases with obser...