Forsaken
- Title
- Forsaken
- LC Subject
- Drawing Charcoal drawing Dogs Animals in art drawing (image-making) freehand drawings (drawings)
- Creator
- Brown, Clint
- Description
- In this charcoal drawing, a skeleton clad in black robes holds a sickly man in his arms. Double-headed dogs circle the skeleton anxiously while a group of gray human figures with their backs turned to the audience form a background for the scene. Forsaken; 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, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
- Location
- The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1995_osu_valley-library_11_b01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_11_b01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Brown, Clint
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 44 x 66 inches
- Material
- Drawing; charcoal
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon 1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- 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
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- The image of death's embrace has many prototypes in art history, particularly in relationship to the Black Plague in Europe. I wanted this same visual theme to help us confront the grim realities of the AIDS pandemic in the modern world.
