Thursday, August 13, 2026

Ink

Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Self Portrait
ca. 1760
ink and wash on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford


Henri Matisse
Dahlias and Pomegranates
1947
ink on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Lyubov Popova
Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
(stage design for The Earth in Turmoil)
1923
ink and collage on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

John Faber the Elder
Portrait of a Man
1702
ink on vellum
British Museum

Lievin Cruyl
Piazza di S. Pietro, Rome
ca. 1664-70
ink on paper
British Museum

John Brown
Shoemaker's Room in Leicester Square
formerly used as Observatory by Isaac Newton

ca. 1857
ink and wash on paper
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Charles-Louis Clérisseau
Roman Fountain
ca. 1765-70
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Charles-Louis Clérisseau
Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli
ca. 1765-70
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Wooded Mountain Path
before 1635
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Belisario Corenzio
Bishop-Saint in Heaven with Saints and Angels
before 1643
ink and wash on paper - design for vault decoration
British Museum

Joseph Middleton Jopling
Queen Victoria reviewing Troops
ca. 1845
ink and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Marino Marini
Acrobats and Horse
1951
ink and gouache on canvas
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

David Bomberg
Family Group 7
1919
ink and wash on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Mario Carreño
Sugar Cane Cutters
1943
ink and gouache on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Kurt Seligmann
Season's Greetings
1961-62
ink and crayon on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

William Baziotes
Puppets
1947
ink and watercolor on paper
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

Hannah Höch
Postcard to the artist's sister
1964
ink and watercolor on card
Museum of Modern Art, New York

from Prometheus Unbound

Lamp of Earth! where'er thou movest
    Its dim shapes are clad with brightness,
And the souls of whom thou lovest
    Walk upon the winds with lightness,
Till they fail, as I am failing,
Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailing!

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)