Hounding
- Title
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Hounding
- 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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This charcoal drawing depicts a teeming pack of dogs. The drawing appears to reveal evidence of a motion study, where the forms have been sketched, erased, and then sketched again, emphasizing the dynamic energy of the subject matter.
Hounding; Charcoal; (92 x 44 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_c01
- Accession Number
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1995_osu_valley-library_11_c01
- 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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92 x 44 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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This pack of wild dogs was, for me, a metaphor for the HIV pandemic, which was out of control and running wild. The drawing was also inspired by several references to the behavior of dogs during the years when the Black Plague ravaged Europe.