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- Title
- Mama
- Artist
- Joseph Nechvatal
- Physical Description
- Dense line drawing on orange-tinted paper.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1951 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1984
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.247
- Medium and Support
- graphite and orange tint on paper
- relevance
- rank 14.96657
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- abstract imagist
- drawing (image-making)
- drawing and drawing techniques
- line drawings
- nudes
- women
- Title
- Sketch Drawing for North Elevation at Main Lobby, Mott Children's Hospital
- Artist
- Michele Oka Doner
- Physical Description
- This is a drawing for the installation of a terrazzo floor installation at the Mott Children's Hospital in Michigan. It includes notes and comments by the artist.
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1945
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2009
- Accession Number
- 2012/2.1
- Medium and Support
- pencil and ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 13.36927
- Primary Keywords
- drafting, drawing and writing equipment by specific type
- drawing
- floors
- Title
- Untitled (Structural Constellation drawing)
- Artist
- Josef Albers
- Physical Description
- pen and ink drawing on half inch grid graph paper ruled in blue
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Germany, 1888-1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1955
- Accession Number
- 2007/2.5
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink on half inch grid graph paper ruled in blue
- relevance
- rank 13.02925
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- conceptual
- drawing and drawing techniques
- geometric abstraction
- graphic document genres
- hard-edge
- ink
- line drawings
- Title
- Dadakopf
- Artist
- Hans Richter
- Physical Description
- This drawing has abstract forms done in black, brown and white against a plain cream colored background. The forms overlap and bleed color into each other. Some text in the bottom right corner shows "RR 17".
- Artist Life Dates
- 1888 - 1976
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1917
- Accession Number
- 2004/2.22
- Medium and Support
- ink and gouache on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.16575
- Primary Keywords
- abstract
- drawing
- Title
- When was the future?
- Artist
- Jakob Kolding
- Physical Description
- A collage drawing with "When was the future?" in the middle of the object. The words are cut out of pictures of trees and a city's skyline. The background of the collage is the view of of a tall building and a cutout of a youth doing a handstand is placed on the balcony. A picture of a tree is included by the person.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1971
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2008
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.21
- Medium and Support
- collage on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.06386
- Primary Keywords
- collage
- drawing
- view
- Title
- Head of a Young Man Looking Up
- Artist
- Guido Reni
- Physical Description
- A graphite drawing of a young man looking up. His shoulders point to the left of the drawing and his neck and face are upturned towards the top right side, where his eyes seem to be pointed.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1575-1642
- Object Creation Date
- 1600-1642
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.526
- Medium and Support
- graphite and chalk on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.06386
- Primary Keywords
- drawing
- head
- man
- Title
- My City
- Artist
- Jakob Kolding
- Physical Description
- A collage of buildings and people. A speech bubble says, "My City." ONe image is of Godzilla.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1971
- Century
- 21st century
- Object Creation Date
- 2009
- Accession Number
- 2010/2.19
- Medium and Support
- collage and drawing on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.06386
- Primary Keywords
- city
- collage
- drawing
- Title
- Portrait of Alice
- Artist
- Albert Sterner
- Physical Description
- A drawn portrait of a woman. She is sitting faced away from the artist but looks over her left shoulder at him to pose. There is detail in her face and hair but that detail gradually decreases below her shoulder and in her clothing.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1863-1946
- Object Creation Date
- 1870-1940
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.485
- Medium and Support
- pencil on paper
- relevance
- rank 9.06386
- Primary Keywords
- drawing
- portraits
- women
- Title
- Untitled (Abstract)
- Artist
- Artist Unknown
- Physical Description
- An image of various abstract shapes, resembling body parts. The silhouettes are going in a vertical format from the upper right corner down to the lower left corner.
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century - 20th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.529
- Medium and Support
- drypoint on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- abstract imagist
- drawing (image-making)
- Title
- Head of an Old Man with a Long Beard
- Artist
- Gaetano Gandolfi
- Physical Description
- This work is vertically oriented with gray markings. The head of a bald old man with a long, wavy beard dominates the work. His head is slightly turned to our right, and he looks to the lower right corner.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1728 - 1781)
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 18th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.496
- Medium and Support
- charcoal, wash on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- drawing (image-making)
- heads
- men
- Title
- Drawing of a jar
- Artist
- Hamada Shôji
- Physical Description
- Ink painting on paper of footed vase or jar with design. Calligraphic text is to the right of the image, most likely a signature.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1894 - 1978
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.222
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper, unmounted
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- drawing
- ink
- jar
- sketch
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Grace Hartigan
- Physical Description
- A drawing of the outline of a woman and her dress. The outline is in black and filled in with shades of orange and red.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1922 - 2008
- Object Creation Date
- 1988
- Accession Number
- 2011/1.65
- Medium and Support
- collage, watercolor on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- drawing
- dress
- figure (illustration)
- woman
- Title
- Drawing
- Artist
- André Masson
- Artist Life Dates
- (Balagny, Oise, France, 1896 - 1987, Paris, France)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1926
- Accession Number
- 1949/2.40
- Medium and Support
- pen and black ink on off-white laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- automatic drawing
- fragment
- males
- surrealism
- Title
- Sheet of Studies with Male Portrait
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Italy
- Physical Description
- This graphite and ink drawing is of a bearded man who wears a large hat. There are two stamps in the center left side near his head.
- A bust-length study of a bearded man appears on one side of this sheet. His torso faces frontally, but his head is turned in ? profile to his left. He wears a shirt with a collar and a hat with a plume. The reverse of the sheet is filled with approximately 12 small sketches of heads, faces, limbs, and full-length figures. A sketch of a radial star shaped decorative pattern is on the right edge. In the middle of the sheet is a basket of fruit and flowers and in the upper left there is a drawing of a figure rowing a boat in a landscape.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.495
- Medium and Support
- graphite, brown and black ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- drawing (image-making)
- portraits
- sketches
- Title
- Sketch of Two Scenes with Male Figures
- Artist
- Jean Louis Forain
- Physical Description
- This sheet contains sketches for two different unidentified scenes. The upper scene depicts a square-jawed, mustachioed man standing in front of a railing or counter. Two figures, suggested only by their contours, lean upon the rail or counter from the other side. Between them appears an unidentified object. The lower scene represents two men standing on a platform. The nearer figure, wearing shorts, bends forward to lift something. Another, larger objects sits in front of him. Behind him stands a figure in a long coat. This second figure seems to address the heads of an audience behind and below the platform.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1852-1931
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1875-1931
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.500
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- crowd
- drawing (image-making)
- men
- Title
- Sketch of a Piazza
- Artist
- Francesco Guardi
- Physical Description
- This sketchy, ink drawing on paper has four abstracted, standing figures on left half. On both sides of the drawing there are buildings; in the center there is a small, square building.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1712 - 1793)
- Object Creation Date
- 1735-1793
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.502
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.86673
- Primary Keywords
- cities
- drawing (image-making)
- piazzas
- Title
- Study of a Scene of Martyrdom or Punishment
- Artist
- Polidoro da Caravaggio
- Physical Description
- This drawing represents seven nude men in a landscape with buildings indicated on a hill in the distance. One of the figures, represented full-length and in profile, is bound to a tree or stake on the left. All of the other men appear in half-length in the right part of the drawing. A bearded man sits and gestures in the direction of the bound man. Five other men appear around the seated figure, one of whom carries two long objects over his shoulder toward the man on the left.
- Artist Life Dates
- c. 1495-c.1543
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1525-1575
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.494
- Medium and Support
- brown ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.77134
- Primary Keywords
- drawing (image-making)
- executions
- nudes
- pens
- Title
- Sketch of a Seated Beggar
- Artist
- Pablo Picasso
- Physical Description
- A sketch of a man seated and begging for money with a bowl in his left hand. He is drawn from the left angle and is facing forawrds, away from the artist. He is unshaved and wearing tattered clothing and no shoes. The shadows of the beggar suggest he is sitting on the street against a wall.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1881 - 1973
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1950
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.531
- Medium and Support
- graphite and ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.77134
- Primary Keywords
- beggars
- drawing
- man
- shadows
- sitting
- street
- Title
- Line A-B
- Artist
- Buky Schwartz
- Physical Description
- A line of wool thread connecting from point A to point B, with a layer effect of wool in the central area of the piece.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1932
- Object Creation Date
- October 30, 1971
- Accession Number
- 2012/1.221
- Medium and Support
- wool, paint, mixed media collage on canvas
- relevance
- rank 8.77134
- Primary Keywords
- collage
- drawing (image-making)
- wool (hair)
- Title
- Design for a square plate, signed
- Artist
- Hamada Shôji
- Physical Description
- Design for a square plate with stylized plant design painted on paper in ink. Signed.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1894 - 1978
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1967
- Accession Number
- 1980/2.221
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper, unmounted
- relevance
- rank 8.67798
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- design
- drawing
- ink
- plates (dishes)
- square
- Title
- Women on a Balcony
- Artist
- Jacob Epstein
- Physical Description
- Eight women appear on a balcony in this drawing with a vaguely indicated crowd looking up at them from below. Most of the women appear at least partly nude, and several wear headdresses and necklaces reminiscent of Egyptian costume.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1880 - 1959)
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1900-1959
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.498
- Medium and Support
- watercolor and graphite on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.67798
- Primary Keywords
- balconies
- drawing (image-making)
- nudes
- watercolors
- women
- Title
- Corner Decoration of a Painted Ceiling
- Artist
- Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi
- Physical Description
- Seen from below, the drawing shows an illusionistic painted corner of a ceiling. A balustrade below which are architectural details including putti, swags, and acanthus leaves.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1735-1817
- Century
- 18th-19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1735-1817
- Accession Number
- 1959/2.34
- Medium and Support
- pen and black ink with ink wash
- relevance
- rank 8.67798
- Primary Keywords
- architectural drawing (technique)
- cove ceilings
- moldings
- rendering
- Title
- A River Landscape
- Artist
- Jan Brueghel
- Physical Description
- This gouache and ink drawing on paper is of a river, many people, and sailboats. In the foreground of the right side there is a tall, leafy tree. To the immediate left of the tree is a group of people varying in age. In the right background there are buildings.
- The drawing depicts a river with at least a dozen boats of various sizes in the fore- and middle grounds. The ships range in size from a larger boat with a single tall mast, to smaller boats with and without sails, including a small boat in the lower left corner poled by a man standing in the stern that seems to be ferrying a group of people across the river. Many of the boats are docked and are being loaded or unloaded. The spires and rooftops of towns are visible on both riverbanks.
- Century
- 17th-18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1575-1650
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.493
- Medium and Support
- gouache and ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.67798
- Primary Keywords
- boats
- drawing (image-making)
- landscapes (representations)
- rivers
- Title
- Studies of a Peasant Digging (Études d'un paysan bêchant)
- Artist
- Camille Pissarro
- Physical Description
- This quick pencil study shows five sketches of a man digging; he is not seen in a single pose, but these sketches seen from behind explore a number of actions that are part of the digging.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1830-1903
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1830-1903
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.21
- Medium and Support
- graphite on greenish-yellow wove paper
- relevance
- rank 8.67798
- Primary Keywords
- earthmoving
- drawing (image-making)
- life drawings
- peasants
- Title
- Head of a Man Wearing a Turban
- Artist
- George Chinnery
- Physical Description
- This sketch depicts a man in profile, facing toward his right. He wears a turban and an elaborate collar.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1774 - 1852)
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1802-1825
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.525
- Medium and Support
- pen, ink and pencil on wove paper
- relevance
- rank 8.58660
- Primary Keywords
- drawing (image-making)
- india (nation)
- profiles (figures)
- turbans
- Title
- Study of a Male Nude with Floating Drapery
- Artist
- Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg
- Physical Description
- This study of a male nude set within a niche combines a skilled portrayal of anatomy with a powerful evocation of movement and emotional intensity. Through the carefully rendered arms and swirling draperies the artist expands and animates the space around the figure, who seems to surge forward even as he turns his head back in a gesture of despair.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1537-1614
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1562-1638
- Accession Number
- 1954/2.54
- Medium and Support
- pen, brown ink and gray wash on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.49711
- Primary Keywords
- drapery (representations)
- drawing (image-making)
- mannerist
- nudes
- preparatory drawings
- Title
- Mother and Baby
- Artist
- Girlamo Parmigianno
- Physical Description
- Rip in paper repaired at lower center. Possible that paper was cut into rectangle from rondo shape. Some lines apper inscized; possibly used as a cartoon (?). Paper size: lh 17 7/10cm & rh 17 4/5cm x tw 15 9/10cm &bw 16cm.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1503 - 1540)
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.448
- Medium and Support
- brown chalk and brushed white tempera on beige laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.49711
- Primary Keywords
- children (people by age group)
- christianity
- drawing (image-making)
- mothers
- Title
- Page from a Printer's or Engraver's Album: Nine Caricatures, includgin works by Henri Daumer and Jean Théophile Gustave Lesestre
- Artist
- Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Physical Description
- Nine charactures of men on the same sheet in various situations.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1808-1879
- Century
- 19th century
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 2013/2.533
- Medium and Support
- various media on wood pulp paper mounted on thick paper
- relevance
- rank 8.49711
- Primary Keywords
- albums
- caricatures
- cartoons (humorous images)
- drawing (image-making)
- men
- Title
- Landscape with a Church beside a Lake
- Artist
- Crescenzio Onofrij
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts a serene landscape. A road running alongside a stream appears in the foreground among rocky outcrops, thick vegetation and bushy trees. The vista opens out in the middle ground and includes a lake at the right with a church standing on its shores at the left. A town is visible on the far shore of the lake and low mountains rise in the distance.
- Artist Life Dates
- ca 1632 - ca 1698
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1675-1689
- Accession Number
- 1958/2.53
- Medium and Support
- pen and ink on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.49711
- Primary Keywords
- churches
- drawing (image-making)
- lakes
- landscapes (representations)
- roads
- streams
- Title
- Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican
- Artist
- Taddeo Zuccaro
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts two addorsed female figures reclining on a triangular slope. The women are partly clothed, and the one on the left wears an elephant-shaped headpiece. Between their shoulders appears a blank escutcheon held by two putti. Nude men in the background strain to hold back piles of objects that include shields and spears.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1529 - 1566)
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1564
- Accession Number
- 1966/1.93
- Medium and Support
- pen and brown ink with brown wash on buff paper
- relevance
- rank 8.40947
- Primary Keywords
- allegory
- drawing (image-making)
- preparatory drawings
- rome (inhabited place)
- women
- Title
- Head of a Child
- Artist
- Jacopo Bassano
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts the head of a boy looking slightly downward to his right in three-quarters profile.
- Artist Life Dates
- (c. 1510 - c. 1592)
- Century
- 16th century
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd half of 16th century
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.490
- Medium and Support
- charcoal on paper
- relevance
- rank 8.40947
- Primary Keywords
- boys
- children (people by age group)
- drawing (image-making)
- heads (representations)
- Title
- Fame and Erato, Muse of Love Poetry
- Artist
- Sebastiano Conca
- Physical Description
- Two women accompanied by a pair of putti appear seated in the foreground of this painting. On the left sits a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing a long white robe and a vivid ocher-colored mantle. She leans on a globe while cradling a large book in her right arm to which she points with her left hand. In her right hand she holds a compass. A putto peeks from beneath her mantle, and a viol is visible beneath the globe. The other woman sits on a cloud. She wears a golden crown and a richly colored blue mantle. She grasps a lyre with her left hand and leans toward the woman seated next to her, gesturing in the direction of the book with her right hand. A second putto stands near her left shoulder holding a gold circlet in his left hand. The background is filled with glimpses of neoclassical architecture, including fluted columns and a facade with a row of Ionic columns supporting an entablature.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1680 - 1764
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1725
- Accession Number
- 1987/1.159
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 8.23951
- Primary Keywords
- allegory
- books
- compasses (drawing instruments)
- globes (cartographic spheres)
- lyres
- oil paintings
- putti
- Title
- Sheet of Figure Studies
- Artist
- Pietro Testa
- Physical Description
- This sheet contains studies of fourteen figures in various stages of elaboration. Several of the figures are represented standing while gazing upward, including a man with an outstretched arm on the left edge of the sheet, a woman standing before a column near the center, and a man with a cross over his shoulder in the upper right corner. Two summarily sketched seated figures in the lower left corner appear to develop ideas for a similar figure placed at the foot of a column in a more detailed study near the middle of the sheet. In the upper left quadrant of the sheet appears a monk kneeling beneath a tree with a figure holding a staff standing behind him. Marked off by an octagonal frame along the lower edge is a seated female figure pointing upward with her right hand and holding a globe in her left.
- Artist Life Dates
- (Lucca, Italy, 1612 - 1650, Rome, Italy)
- Century
- 17th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1635-1640
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.199.4
- Medium and Support
- pen and brown ink on laid paper
- relevance
- rank 8.07628
- Primary Keywords
- drawing (image-making)
- figures (representations)
- globes (cartographic spheres)
- rome (inhabited place)
- studies (visual works)
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Robert Lobe
- Physical Description
- Pen drawing on paper printed with a blue rectangle frame; signed on verso.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1945 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1969
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.244
- Medium and Support
- ink on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.88949
- Primary Keywords
- drawing (image-making)
- installations (sculpture)
- pens
- sketches
- wood (sculpture by material)
- Title
- Old Well at Sion
- Artist
- Auguste Louis Lepère
- Physical Description
- Size: h 27cm x tw 39 1/2cm & bw 39 2/5cm.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1849-1918
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.362
- Medium and Support
- black chalk, charcol and gauge on brown artist board
- relevance
- rank 7.88949
- Primary Keywords
- cottages
- drawing (image-making)
- drawings
- landscapes
- landscapes (environments)
- wells (structures)
- Title
- Untitled (Cactus)
- Artist
- Steve Keister
- Physical Description
- Drawing on spiral sketchbook paper in green, blue and orange gouache inscribed with graphite pencil.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1949 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1998
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.237
- Medium and Support
- gouache on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.84321
- Primary Keywords
- cacti
- deserts
- drawing (image-making)
- flowers (plants)
- pots
- sketches
- southwest (general region)
- southwestern native american styles
- terracottas
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Steve Keister
- Physical Description
- Drawing on spiral sketchbook paper in terra cotta and ivory gouache with graphite pencil.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1949 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1998
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.236
- Medium and Support
- gouache on paper
- relevance
- rank 7.69528
- Primary Keywords
- ceramics
- drawing (image-making)
- earthenware
- latin america (general region)
- native american
- sketches
- south american
- terracottas
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Don Hazlitt
- Physical Description
- Sketch of tightly grouped volumetric forms rendered in thick dark lines with some shading; signed “DH” in upper left corner, “7/84” in upper right corner.
- Artist Life Dates
- (1948 - )
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1984
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.231
- Medium and Support
- graphite on paper
- relevance
- rank 6.23328
- Primary Keywords
- abstraction
- cubes (geometric figures)
- drawing (image-making)
- freehand drawings
- geometric
- geometric abstraction
- geometric figures
- geometric motifs
- perspective drawings