Hounding

Title
Hounding
LC Subject
Drawing Charcoal drawing Dogs Animals in art drawing (image-making) freehand drawings (drawings)
Creator
Brown, Clint
Description
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, 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_c01
Accession Number
1995_osu_valley-library_11_c01
Rights
In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder
Brown, Clint
Type
Image
Format
image/tiff
Measurements
92 x 44 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
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.