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Drawing is the art and technique of producing images on a surface, typically paper, through marks made with dry or wet media such as graphite, ink, chalk, charcoal, crayon and metalpoint, built chiefly around line rather than the broad passages of color and mass that define painting. Encyclopaedia Britannica defines it as the primarily linear rendition of objects in the visible world, as well as of concepts, thoughts, attitudes, emotions and fantasies given visual form, and notes that a direct relationship exists between production and result, since a drawn line is the artist's own unrepeated gesture made without an intervening plate, block or mold. Mark-making on stone and cave walls reaches back to the Ice Age, but drawing's history as a named, independent artistic document is dated much later. In antiquity and the Middle Ages drawing played an instrumental, subordinate role, serving as underdrawing for mosaics and murals or as designs for sculpture, before it began, toward the end of the fourteenth century, to be practiced as an autonomous art form in northern Italy. From the fifteenth century onward, sketchbooks, nature studies and increasingly personal draftsmanship in the hands of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Albrecht Durer established drawing as both a workshop tool and a collected, esteemed art form in its own right.

Facts
Medium
Dry or wet media, among them graphite, ink, chalk, charcoal, crayon and metalpoint, applied by hand to a surface historically including papyrus, parchment, wood and stone, and since the Renaissance chiefly paper. 1
Signature Technique
Hatching: groups of parallel lines built up by hand with a pen or other dry or wet medium to model tone and form. 2
Place of Origin
Prehistoric Africa and Europe; drawing served as a specialized form of communication before the invention of writing, evidenced by cave and rock paintings produced around 30,000 years ago. 2
Notable Example
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1490), a pen and ink drawing after Vitruvius illustrating ideal human proportions, held at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. 2
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The Renaissance Turn: When Drawing Became Its Own Art

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For most of its early history in the Western tradition, drawing did not stand on its own. Through antiquity and the Middle Ages drawing played an instrumental, subordinate role, feeding into other, larger projects rather than standing as finished work in itself. A monastic scribe might draw to plan an illuminated initial; a workshop might draw to plan a mosaic, a mural, or the design of a sculpted figure for a Gothic church. In every one of these settings, the drawing was a means to an end, a tool consumed in the making of something else, rarely preserved or valued for its own sake. That changed toward the end of the fourteenth century, in the workshops of northern Italy. Drawing began to be practiced and kept as an independent artistic document rather than a disposable working tool. The shift did not happen all at once. Early sketchbooks, among them those associated with Giovannino de Grassi, Antonio Pisanello and Jacopo Bellini, still leaned on standardized workshop models even as they opened space for individual observation and copying from antique sources. By the middle of the fifteenth century, the drawings coming out of different regions and different hands had begun to diverge noticeably, each carrying the mark of a particular artist's personality rather than a shared formula. The clearest evidence that drawing had become its own art form arrived with the generation of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. Michelangelo's sheets produced what is often called the first connoisseur drawings, drawings collected and esteemed as personal documents in their own right rather than as by-products of a painting or sculpture commission. North of the Alps, Albrecht Durer is credited as the artist who most forcefully championed the autonomy of drawing, joined by artists such as Altdorfer and Huber, whose landscape studies carried an emotional feeling for nature well before Romanticism existed as a named movement. By the time Mannerism took hold across Italy, roughly 1525 to 1600, drawing had settled into the role it has held since, valued equally as an artist's private working method and as a public, collectible statement in its own right.

Line Before Color: The Materials and Logic of Drawing

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Drawing is defined less by any single material than by a way of building an image, mark by mark, with line doing most of the representational work. Encyclopaedia Britannica calls it, in formal terms, the primarily linear rendition of objects in the visible world, as well as of concepts, thoughts, attitudes, emotions and fantasies given visual form. Tate's shorter definition arrives at nearly the same place from a different direction, describing drawing as essentially a technique in which images are depicted on a surface by making lines, while allowing that washes, tone and other non-linear elements often extend a drawn image beyond pure line. The materials associated with drawing are comparatively direct and simple: dry media including charcoal, slate pencils, graphite points, metal styli, chalks and colored crayons, and wet media including diluted paint. The surface receiving these marks has historically been almost anything with a plane, from papyrus and parchment to cloth, wood, metal, ceramic, stone, walls, glass and sand, well before paper became the medium's default support. What separates drawing from its nearest neighbor, painting, is not simply the tool but the relationship between the artist's hand and the finished object. Painting builds an image chiefly through passages of color and mass; drawing builds it chiefly through the structural logic of line, reinforced, where an artist chooses, by techniques such as hatching, in which parallel strokes model the fall of light and the roundness of a form, and cross hatching, which deepens shadow through overlapping sets of lines. Drawing is further separated from prints and other reproduced graphic images because a direct relationship exists between production and result: a drawn line is the artist's own gesture, made once, without an intervening plate, block or mold, part of why drawing is often called the most personal of all artistic statements. That directness has let drawing serve two roles throughout its history, a private tool for an artist's own thinking and, since the Renaissance, a finished and collectible work of art in its own right.

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What materials are traditionally used for drawing?

Traditional drawing materials include graphite pencil, charcoal, pen and brush ink, chalk, pastel, silverpoint and crayon.

Traditional drawing materials include graphite pencil, charcoal, ink applied with a pen or brush, chalk and pastel, silverpoint, and crayon. Each produces a different line quality and tonal range: charcoal and pastel build soft, blendable tone, pen and ink favor crisp line work, and silverpoint, a technique of drawing with a fine metal stylus on a prepared ground, produces a faint, permanent line that darkens slightly as it tarnishes.
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Calligraphy, Art Forms
Cross-Hatching, Artistic Techniques

cross hatching is a technique of the drawing art form.

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Painting, Art Forms
Printmaking, Art Forms
Silverpoint, Artistic Techniques

silverpoint is a technique of the drawing art form.

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Adolph Menzel, Artists
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Source Wikipedia: Baccio Bandinelli
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Brett Murray, Artists
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Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Lindtmayer, Daniel, II (Swiss glass painter, draftsman, and engraver, born 1552, died 1602-1607)
Source Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)
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Francis Bacon, Artists
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Guercino, Artists
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Henry Fuseli, Artists
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James Gillray, Artists
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Jan Steen, Artists
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Lenore Tawney, Artists
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Additional Source Vitruvian Man (Wikipedia)Vitruvian Man, Description/Composition section
Lorenzo Lotto, Artists
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Michelangelo, Artists
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Otto Dix, Artists
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Paul Klee, Artists
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Rembrandt, Artists
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Ruth Asawa, Artists
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Epifania, Works
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Mary and Eve, Works
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Untitled (Head), Works
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Drawing (Wikipedia)
  • Drawing, Technique section
    Pen and ink drawings often use hatching - groups of parallel lines.
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    It is believed that drawing was used as a specialised form of communication before the invention of the written language, demonstrated by the production of cave paintings of quadrupeds in the caves of southern France and Spain around 30,000 years ago (Art of the Upper Paleolithic).
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Vitruvian Man (Wikipedia)
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    a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490.
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    The drawing was executed primarily with pen and light-brown ink, while there are traces of brown wash (watercolor).
  • Practitioners: Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, Description/Composition section
    The drawing was executed primarily with pen and light-brown ink, while there are traces of brown wash (watercolor).
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Practitioners: Vincent van Gogh, Nuenen section
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During his two-year stay in Nuenen, he completed numerous drawings and watercolours and nearly 200 oil paintings.
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While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology.
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Studies of the Fetus in the Womb - Wikipedia
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Studies of the Fetus in the Womb are two coloured annotated sketches by Leonardo da Vinci made in around 1511. The studies correctly depict the human fetus in its proper position inside a dissected uterus. Leonardo depicted the ut
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Hatching (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Hatching (Drawing Technique), lead paragraph
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Hatching (French: hachure) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing, painting, or scribing closely spaced parallel lines. When lines are placed at an angle to one another, it is called cross-hatc
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist (Wikipedia)
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, sometimes called the Burlington House Cartoon, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing is in charcoal and black and white chalk, on eight sheets of paper that
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Don Quixote (Picasso) (Wikipedia)
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Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18-24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises in celebration of the 350th a
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Sorrow (Van Gogh) (Wikipedia)
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Sorrow is a drawing by Vincent van Gogh, produced in 1882. The work, created two years after Van Gogh had decided to become an artist, depicts 32-year-old pregnant woman Clasina Maria Hoornik, familiarly known as Sien. The drawing
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Plan of Saint Gall (Wikipedia)
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The Plan of Saint Gall is a medieval architectural drawing of a monastic compound dating from 820-830 AD. It depicts an entire Benedictine monastic compound, including church, houses, stables, kitchens, workshops, brewery, infirma
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La Joconde nue (Wikipedia)
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La Joconde nue or Monna Vanna is a 1514-1516 charcoal drawing with white highlights by the school of Leonardo da Vinci. It is a semi-nude portrait of a woman, 28-by-21 inch in size. The position of the subject's hands and body are
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Saint Barbara (van Eyck) (Wikipedia)
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Saint Barbara is a small 1437 drawing on oak panel, signed and dated 1437 by the Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. It is unknown if the work is a chalk ground study in pencil for a planned oil painting, an unfinished underdrawing
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Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (Wikipedia)
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Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (c. 1510) is a drawing currently in the collection of the Royal Library of Turin. It is widely, though not universally, accepted as a self-portrait of the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is
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Angelo Incarnato (Wikipedia)
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Angelo incarnato is a sketch attributed to the renowned Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing is believed to be a portrait of Leonardo's apprentice, Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, also known as Salaì. Salaì se
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Epifania (Wikipedia)
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Epifania (English: Epiphany) is a cartoon or full-scale drawing in black chalk by Michelangelo, produced in Rome around 1550-1553. It is 2.32 metres (7 ft 7 in) tall by 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) wide, and is made up of 26 sheets of paper
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Erased de Kooning Drawing (Wikipedia)
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Erased de Kooning Drawing is an early work of American artist Robert Rauschenberg, from 1953. This conceptual work presents an almost blank piece of paper in a gilded frame. It was created in 1953 when Rauschenberg erased a drawin
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Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Wikipedia)
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Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment is a drawing of c. 1500-1501 by Michelangelo, now in the Louvre Museum. It is in black chalk, with pen and ink and white highlighting, on pink prepared (coloured) paper, and measure
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The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins (Wikipedia)
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The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins (German: Der Künstler verzweifelnd vor der Grösse der antiken Trümmer) is a drawing in red chalk with brown wash executed between 1778 and 1780 by the Swiss artist Henry Fu
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Untitled (Head) (Wikipedia)
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Untitled (Head) is a 1982 drawing created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1982. It sold for $15.2 million at Sotheby's in June 2020, becoming Basquiat's most expensive work on paper.
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Mary and Eve (Wikipedia)
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Mary and Eve is a 2005 crayon and pencil drawing depicting Mary, pregnant with Jesus, consoling Eve after the Fall. It is intended to symbolize the fulfillment of messianic prophecies begun in Genesis 3 and expresses a view of Mar
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Jacob de Gheyn II (Wikipedia)
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He is credited with creating over 1,500 drawings, including landscapes and natural history illustrations.
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Hendrick Goltzius (Wikipedia)
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Hendrick Goltzius (German: [ˈhɛndʁɪk ˈɡɔltsi̯ʊs], Dutch: [ˈɦɛndrɪk ˈxɔltsijʏs]; né Goltz; January or February 1558-1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter.
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Jacques Bellange (Wikipedia)
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1575-1616) was an artist and printmaker from the Duchy of Lorraine (then independent but now part of France) whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today.
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Henry Fuseli (Wikipedia)
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Henry Fuseli ( FEW-zə-lee, few-ZEL-ee; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli [ˈjoːhan ˈhaɪ̯nʁɪç ˈfyːsli]; 7 February 1741-17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman, and writer on art who spent much of his career in Britain.
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Wikipedia: Adolph Menzel
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noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings
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Nicolas de Largillière (Wikipedia)
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Nicolas de Largillière (French: [nikɔla də laʁʒijiɛʁ]; baptised 10 October 1656-20 March 1746) was a French painter and draughtsman.
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Abraham van Diepenbeeck (Wikipedia)
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Abraham van Diepenbeeck (9 May 1596 (baptised), between May and September 1675) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, glass painter, print maker and tapestry designer who worked most of his active career in Antwerp.
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Antoine Coypel (Wikipedia)
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Antoine Coypel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan kwapɛl]; 11 April 1661-7 January 1722) was a French painter, pastellist, engraver, decorative designer and draughtsman.
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Jean-François de Troy (Wikipedia)
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Jean-François de Troy (27 January 1679, Paris, 26 January 1752, Rome) was a French Rococo easel and fresco painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer.
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Wikipedia: Guercino
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was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region
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Wikipedia: Federico Zuccari
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was an Italian painter, draughtsman, architect and writer
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Wikipedia: Baccio Bandinelli
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was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman, and painter
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Wikipedia: Bernardo Cavallino
Practitioners: Bernardo Cavallino, Lead
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was an Italian painter and draughtsman
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Wikipedia: Lorenzo Lotto
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was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities
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Wikipedia: Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli
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was an Italian painter and draughtsman
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Wikipedia: Wouter Crabeth II
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was a Dutch painter and draughtsman
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Wikipedia: Pietro del Po
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was an Italian painter, engraver, and draughtsman of the Baroque
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Wikipedia: Lenore Tawney
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was an American artist working in fiber art, collage, assemblage, and drawing
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Praying Hands (Durer) (Wikipedia)
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is a pen-and-ink drawing
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América Invertida (Wikipedia)
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is a 1943 pen and ink drawing
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Sogdian Daēnās (Wikipedia)
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Sogdian Daēnās, also known as Sogdian Deities (French: Deux divinités féminines; Chinese: 粟特神祇白畫) is a line drawing discovered by the French Orientalist Paul Pelliot at the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, dated to the 10th-century Guiyi pe
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Blue Dancers (Wikipedia)
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is an 1897 pastel by Edgar Degas
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Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) (Wikipedia)
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is an 1887 chalk pastel on cardboard by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Big Fish Eat Little Fish (Wikipedia)
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originated as a 1556 drawing by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Wikipedia: Ruth Asawa
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Asawa created figurative and abstract drawings and prints
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Wikipedia: Rosemarie Trockel
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She has made drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos and installations
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Wikipedia: Paul Klee
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Klee was a natural draftsman
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Stalingrad Madonna (Wikipedia)
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is an image of the Virgin Mary drawn by a German soldier
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Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Magritte, René (Belgian painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1898-1967)
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draftsman
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Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Coornhert, D. V. (Netherlandish printmaker, humanist and writer, 1522-1590)
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draftsman
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Getty Research Institute Union List of Artist Names: Lindtmayer, Daniel, II (Swiss glass painter, draftsman, and engraver, born 1552, died 1602-1607)
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Lindtmayer, Daniel, II (Swiss glass painter, draftsman, and engraver, born 1552, died 1602-1607)
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Getty ULAN artist record 500017355, Gillray, James
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draftsman
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Johann Jacob Eybelwieser (Austrian artist, 1667-1744)
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draftsman
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian painter, architect, and scenographer, 1691-1765)
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draftsman
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Crispijn van den Broeck (Flemish painter and draftsman, born 1523, died 1589-1591)
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Broeck, Crispin van den (Flemish painter and draftsman, born 1523, died 1589-1591)
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Stefano Mulinari (Italian draftsman and engraver, ca. 1741-ca. 1790)
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Mulinari, Stefano (Italian draftsman and engraver, ca. 1741-ca. 1790)
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Jan Swart van Groningen (Dutch painter, ca. 1500 - ca. 1560)
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Utagawa Kuniteru (Japanese illustrator and printmaker, ca. 1830-1874)
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Étienne-Maurice Falconet
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Francis Bacon
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Brett Murray
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Jan Steen
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Otto Dix
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Getty Research Institute, Union List of Artist Names: Getty ULAN record for Paul Philippoteaux
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