Sunday, January 1, 2017

Drawings from Many Lands

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguay)
Study for 'La Catalunya eterna'
ca. 1912
drawing
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

"In the early seventies I made a collection piece called Enquiries / Inquiries, which revealed quite explicitly, although drily, in the style of the seventies, that any collection of objects was an ambiguously bounded unit that told a particular story, and it was by setting the boundaries that the story was told. If you think about the narrative that collections or assemblages of things make, the interesting thing is that there are always at least two possible stories: one is the story that the narrator, in this case the artist, thinks she's telling  the story-teller's story  and the other is the story that the listener is understanding, or hearing, or imagining on the basis of the same objects. And there would be always at least these two versions of whatever story was being told." 

 from Thinking About Art : Conversations with Susan Hiller, edited by Barbara Einzig (Manchester University Press, 1996)

Cornelis van Poelenburgh (Netherlands)
Arch of Septimus Severus, Rome
1623
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Winslow Homer (USA)
Fisher Girls on the Shore, Teynemouth
1884
drawing
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Rembrandt (Netherlands)
Frame study for St John the Baptist Preaching
ca. 1655
drawing
Louvre

Richard 'Dickie' Doyle (England)
Portrait-profiles of Hon Caroline Norton & AW Kinglake
mid-19th century
drawing
British Museum

Sebastiano Ricci (Venice)
Head of a youth
ca. 1717-20
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Jan van den Bergh (Netherlands)
Seated Bishop
ca. 1635-40
drawing
British Museum

circle of Baldassare Franceschini (Florence)
Head of a Horse
ca. 1650
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacques-Louis David (France)
Empress Josephine Kneeling at her Coronation
1806
drawing
Louvre

Jacob Smies (Netherlands)
Académie
1803
drawing
Rijksmuseum

Albrecht Dürer (Germany)
Study of drapery
1508
drawing
Louvre

Agostino Tassi (Rome)
Capriccio with Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome
early 1630s
drawing
private collection

Agostino Tassi (Rome)
River landscape
ca. 1625
drawing
private collection

Eugène Delacroix (France)
illustration to Goethe's Faust
1825-27
drawing
Louvre

Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna)
Masquerade of Persepolis
ca. 1541-45
drawing
Louvre