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Omnibus

Artist Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish, 1860 - 1920)

Date1890

Dimensions10 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (27.4 x 19.6 cm)

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGrace J. Hitchcock Collection

Object number

1981.217

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Label TextSwedish artist Anders Zorn lived in Paris from 1888 until 1896. He admired the Impressionists and was deeply influenced by their modern urban subjects, plunging space, accidental patterns of illumination, and compositional asymmetries and croppings—influences evident in this print. Zorn often took public transportation—here he incorporates his own portrait in a top hat—to study the weary passengers, but also the surprising and fleeting effects of light through the windows on faces and figures. Zorn etched in a quick, improvisatory manner with vigorous hatched lines animating the surface and shifting directions to model the forms. From the early 1890s, his prints found a persistent and lucrative market.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Strong Sensations: Impressionism and Symbolist Works on Paper, 1860-1900, April 23-June 20 2010 (no cat.).

Toledo Museum of Art, Prints and Authors from the Time of Manet, September 13, 2012-January 13, 2013. Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.