Drawing

Rotated view of an early cover for the magazine BLAST: The Review of the Great English Vortex, 1914. All pink with giant black letters spelling BLAST
Vorticism: The Problematic British Art Movement
Addressing Vorticism requires facing a troubling period of political history head-on, something many historians have been reticent to do. Nevertheless, it is important to analyze the evolution and…
MLK Memorial of Washington D.C., Sculpted by Master Lei Yixin and Design by the ROMA Design Group, 
10 Artworks that Honor Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has had quite a lasting international impact. This sentiment holds within every event, tribute, or art piece created in his honor. Over the decades, artists have shared…
Drawing XXIII uses, in addition to visual conventions discussed later, circles and long, stair-like rectangle groupings to connect clippings across the visual plane
Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Evocative Dante Illustrations
In 1958, Robert Rauschenberg began a difficult series of illustrations of Dante Alighieri’s fourteenth-century poem Inferno. The thirty-four mixed-media images foreground the process of their…
Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976), Butterfly, Mouse and Snail, 1968. Gouache. 22 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.
Master Drawings New York Spotlights Leading Art Dealers
Master Drawings New York (MDNY) is pleased to announce highlights from 21 of the world’s leading art dealers of works from the fourteenth to the twentyfirst centuries to be exhibited at the highly-…
Mauricio Lasansky, Triptych, 1963-71. The Nazi Drawings,Levitt Foundation.
Mauricio Lasansky's "Nazi Drawings" Return to Museums
A collection of drawings by Jewish Argentinian-American artist Mauricio Lasansky took the world by storm after their debut at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1967, followed by a tour of North America.…
Alphonse Mucha, detail of Self-portrait with posters for Sarah Bernhardt at the studio in rue du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, circa 1901. Modern print from original glass plate negative. 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.
NCMA’s Dazzling Alphonse Mucha Show Lauds Art Nouveau Visionary
Through more than 100 objects thoughtfully selected from the Mucha Trust Collection, an illuminating spotlight is placed on lesser-known aspects of Alphonse Mucha—whose interests extended beyond the…
Hans Holbein the Younger, Bonifacius Amerbach, 1519. Mixed technique on panel 29.9 × 28.3 cm (11 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.).
Hans Holbein the Younger’s Timelessness Visible at the Getty
“A Holbein portrait is a very precise object,” says curator Anne Wollett. “It’s telling that when it comes to identity and the process of finding the right elements to include in the portrait some…
Installation view Surrealism Beyond Borders.
Met's Ambitious "Surrealism Beyond Borders" Lacks Organization
Like politics, all art is local until it isn’t anymore, a point driven home by Surrealism Beyond Borders, the Met’s tour d’horizon of the global, half-century-long spread of Surrealism from its…
Seven Silent Songs Video Still Manatee and Jelly Fish Drawing
Avish Khebrezadeh’s Seven Silent Songs

What do a baby rhino, soldiers on stilts and humans dragging a whale mean to Iranian artist Avish Khebrehzadeh? Watch as she draws the figures for her video, “Seven Silent Songs” and her grand,…

Gerard van Nijmegen (Dutch, 1735 - 1808), Allegory of Painting and Drawing, 1801. Pencil, pen and gray and brown ink, and gray wash. 14 15/16 × 10 13/16 in (38 × 27.4 cm). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
The J. Paul Getty Museum Presents "Artists as Collectors"
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Artists as Collectors, an exhibition exploring how artists accumulated, cared for, and used drawings by other artists that they avidly collected, on view at the…
detail preparatory drawing of the Bodhisattva Maitreya
Preparatory Drawing of the Bodhisattva Maitreya

Take a moment to learn more about this preparatory drawing of the Bodhisattva Maitreya. Listen to Najiba Choudhury, Assistant Information Specialist & Provenance Researcher Smithsonian's…

Bartholomeus Spranger, Saint Ursula, c. 1583. Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk with pink and teal watercolor washes in a Venetian ca. 1590 aedicule frame.
Rediscovered Drawing Unveiled at Christopher Bishop Fine Art
Three years ago, when art dealer Christopher Bishop saw a drawing from a private collection, he knew it was something special.
Hubert Robert Young Artists in Studio Detail
Making Prints and Drawings

Join Met curators to explore works from the exhibition Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Materials and Techniques. Learn about the broad range of approaches European and…

kara walker drawing practice Switzerland solo show
Kara Walker's Drawings at Kunstmuseum Basel
Throwing open the doors to her personal archive that she has closely guarded for the past twenty-seven years, Kara Walker (b. 1969) presents hundreds of drawings from her studio.
Close up of Yayoi Kusama dot print from 1952, you can see the artists signature too
MoMA Curator Unpacks Why Kusama Started Making Polka Dots

Yayoi Kusama explored symbols of our ability to start afresh even in the darkest times in some of her early works,…