The Shooter's Practice [working proof 15]
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color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints, soft ground etching and drypoint on Somerset paper (WP 15 – turquoise and brown soft ground, black aquatint with light orange-brown spit bite back ground) [working proof 15]
Dimensions
30 x 29 in.
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.228
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...