Inspirational Books on Drawing
John Singer Sargent, The Male Nudes
by john Esten (Author), Donna Hassler (Preface) This book, published on occasion of the major Sargent retrospective traveling to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999, brings to light fascinating portion of Sargent's work long hidden from the public eye. Over the century, these little-known works have been dispersed to museum archives and private collections throughout the United States and Great Britain. John Esten has unearthed the most extraordinary of these images, ranging from vibrant watercolors and oil paintings to charcoal studies, published here for the frst time in a single volume. Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist's Collection
by Henry Adams (Author), Andrew Wyeth (Author) This book presents drawings that Andrew Wyeth retained for his own collection -- many preliminary to well-known paintings. Created over more than five decades, from 1951 to 2005, they range from portraits of family members and friends to vibrant depictions of objects, landscapes, and buildings in and around the artist's homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. These works reflect the insight, emotion, and technique that are uniquely his. They demonstrate Wyeth's extraordinary skill as a draftsman and the accuracy with which he sees light and dark, enabling him to model forms while suggesting the very substance and texture of what he sees.French Master Drawings: From the Collection of Muriel Butkin
by Foster Carter (Author) One of the finest private collections of master drawings of French artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, more than 450 in all. This beautiful volume publishes the 59 most important drawings, each reproduced in rich duotone with a comprehensive essay.The Craft of Old-Master Drawings
by James Watrous (Author) Back in print by popular demand, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings is both a useful manual for contemporary artists and a historical work covering the period from the late Middle Ages to the mid-twentieth century. It presents the old masters’ techniques and provides specific directions for making inks, styluses, reed and quill pens, and fabricated chalks, as well as instructions for preparing grounds for metalpoint drawings. It comprises a body of knowledge that is essential to artists, students of art history, curators, and collectorsThe Essence of Line: French Drawings From Ingres to Degas
by William R. Johnston (Author), Kimberly Schneck (Author) offers the first comprehensive discussion of the formation of these collections and their signifcance for the history of French art. The book begins with essays by Jay M. Fisher, William R. Johnston, and Cheryl K. Snay that trace the history of collecting in Baltimore and afford new insights into the acquisition, display, and interpretation of drawings. In her essay, conservator Kimberly Schenck bridges the worlds of the collector and of the artist by examining the production and the use of drawing materials in an epoch of radical changes as much in technique as style. This book also provides a fully illustrated, scholarly catalogue for one hundred of the most important of the nineteenth-century French drawings now held by The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, and the Peabody Art Collection.
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