Dog's Feast
- Title
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Dog's Feast
- LC Subject
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Drawing
Charcoal drawing
Dogs
Animals in art
drawing (image-making)
freehand drawings (drawings)
- Creator
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Brown, Clint
- Description
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In this charcoal drawing, five ravenous dogs surround a cart filled with human skeletons. One of the dogs tugs at a bone through an opening in the side of the cart, while another one lies down to enjoy a femur.
Dog's Feast; Charcoal; (44 x 66 inches); 1993
Clint Brown has been a professor of art at Oregon State University, where he has taught drawing, painting, and sculpture since 1970. He served as a Fulbright Exchange Professor at Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) in Nottingham, England, and has taught art as Seattle Pacific University and University of Southern California. He is author of Drawing from Life (Harcourt Brace, second edition 1996) and editor of Artist to Artist: Inspiration and Advice from Artists Past and Present (Jackson Creek Press 1998). His art work had been exhibited widely throughout the West. His drawings on the AIDS pandemic, The Plague Drawings, traveled to Japan,
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- Location
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The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
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121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
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1975/2012
- Identifier
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1995_osu_valley-library_11_a01
- Accession Number
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1995_osu_valley-library_11_a01
- Rights
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In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
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Brown, Clint
- Type
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Image
- Format
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image/tiff
- Measurements
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44 x 66 inches
- Material
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Drawing;
charcoal
- Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
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Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
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1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon
1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
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slide; color
- Institution
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Oregon Arts Commission
University of Oregon
- Note
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To view a map of the artwork location in context to Oregon State University, see http://oregonstate.edu/cw_tools/campusmap/locations.php
- Color Space
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RGB
- Biographical Information
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To a great extent, this drawing was intended to remind us of our mortality and of the many natural and man-made disasters that pose a threat to human life and society. Dog's Feast represents the defeat of humanity.