Don Lent, American (b. 1933)

“I love to draw, to make lines that both describe what I'm seeing and express what I'm feeling,” says printmaker Don Lent, and this fascination with line is clear in the etchings on view here. These four works are part of a series of ten studies of plants, animals, and insects, each showing his trademark fluid quality and excitement for line. Often focusing on the subject with few strokes to note the background, Lent gives emphasis on the sensibility of the form.

Lent graduated from Yale University with an MFA in 1963. He has had fourteen solo exhibitions, numerous group shows, and has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Bowdoin College, the Boston Architecture Center, and at Bates College where he was Dana Professor of Art and Chairman of the Art Department.