Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Drawings by Unknowns

Anonymous Artist
Young Artist with Clients
ca. 1810
drawing
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Anonymous Artist
Study for Figure of Warrior
17th century
drawing
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Anonymous Artist
Académie
16th century
drawing
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Anonymous Artist
Study for Figures erecting the Cross
ca. 1700-1750
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Stoning of St Stephen
18th century
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

Anonymous Artist
Sacrifice of Abraham
ca. 1500-1550
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel

Anonymous Artist
Studies of Monte Cavallo Horses, Rome
ca. 1510-20
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Antique Sculpture Fragments, Rome
16th century
drawing
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Anonymous Artist
Figure Studies
17th century
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous Artist
Man's Legs in Contrapposto
15th century
drawing
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Anonymous Artist
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1550-1600
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Anonymous Artist
Figure supporting Cartouche
17th century
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Draped Figure with upraised Vessel
17th century
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Classical Bust
18th century
drawing
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Anonymous Artist
Christ falling beneath the Cross
17th century
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Anonymous Artist
Académie
ca. 1775-1800
drawing
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Elms

All day I tried to distinguish
need from desire. Now, in the dark,
I feel only bitter sadness for us,
the builders, the planers of wood, 
because I have been looking
steadily at these elms
and seen the process that creates
the writhing, stationary tree
is torment, and have understood
it will make no forms but twisted forms.

– Louise Glück (1985)