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| Vaughan Trowbridge The Forge, Limoges 1902 etching Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Anders Zorn Portrait of Betty Nansen ca. 1905 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Edward Gordon Craig Hecuba 1908 woodcut Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| John Singer Sargent Figure of Pan (sketches for the rotunda mural at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) ca. 1917-21 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Lovis Corinth Apocalyptic Rider 1917 drawing, with gouache Art Institute of Chicago |
Eschatology
I accompany this life's events like a personal journalist:
"Little did she know when she got in the car that afternoon . . ."
or "Despite inauspicious beginnings,
this was to be their happiest year."
Little did I expect that our horoscopes would prove true.
And how could we foresee an answer to
that frankly secular prayer, we with so little faith
as to be false prophets to our most fortunate gifts.
I am glad when doom fails. Inept apocalypse
is a specialty of the times: the suffering of the rich
at the hand of riches; the second and third comings of wars.
Shouldn't we refuse prediction
that the untried today is guilty, that immeasurable
as this child's hope is, it will break tomorrow?
– Sandra McPherson (1970)
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| Lovis Corinth Portrait of Charlotte Berend Corinth 1920 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lovis Corinth Self-Portrait 1924 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Lovis Corinth Bust of Sophocles with Animal Skull ca. 1923-25 drypoint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Henri Matisse Portrait of Léonide Massine 1920 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Leonard Baskin Thomas Eakins 1964 etching and aquatint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| David Ligare Drapery Study 1979 drawing Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Elisabeth Frink Bird Man 1961 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Andy Warhol The Kiss (Bela Lugosi) 1963 screenprint Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Willem de Kooning Studies - Women's Torsos 1952 charcoal and pastel Art Institute of Chicago |