Perhaps reflecting on our first creative experiences with pencil (or crayon), we
tend to associate drawings as being on paper, but the range of supports, just
like the range of media is much broader. Our catalogue presents a selection
of these. Although most of the works included are indeed on paper, they are
variously prepared: natural or colored, unmounted or laid down on canvas,
intact or precisely cut with a knife. But some outliers appear—pastel on artist’s
board, miniatures on vellum, and, perhaps most unusual, watercolor and chalk
on silk. Still there is a communality to all: the intimate connection between
hand, mind, and eye that is behind the creation of each. It is that personal
bond, first between artist and object, and then between object and viewer (or
owner) that makes the experience of these works of art so vivid and effective
across time.
