Guard
1988
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View on museum website →Medium
drypoint, open bite, spitbite aquatint, and etching with burnishing in black on Somerset Satin paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.24 × 10.16 cm (6 × 4 in.) sheet: 36.83 × 28.42 cm (14 1/2 × 11 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Christopher Cordes
Accession Number
2012.4.6
About the Artist
Al Taylor
Al Taylor (1948–1999) was born in Springfield, Missouri, and received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1970, where he trained as a painter. That year, he relocated to New York City, embracing the vibrant art scene and taking a job as an assistant to Robert Rauschenberg, whose medium-blending experiments shaped Taylor's lifelong curiosity about the interplay between two and three di...