Category: Drawing

American Drawings and Watercolors in The Metropolitan Museum of Art - John Singer Sargent

9/23/2022

I stumbled upon a great book which I've been enjoying. I found the book through another website: jssgallery.org
I've read a lot about Sargent, but I hadn't heard of this book. The first thing to catch my attention was an essay titled Materials and Techniques by Marjorie Shelley. Sargent didn't write about his technique a lot so it's difficult to find information. In the final volume of the Sargent catalogue raisonne there's also a chapter on materials and technique, which is pretty comprehensive but this essay by Marjorie Shelley contains information that I haven't read before. The essay is focused on Sargent's drawings and watercolors, but there are numerous notes on Sargent's oil process since many parallels exist between both processes. The essay also contains information about his painting materials which I hadn't found previously.
This book is out of print, but you can download it for free through the MetPublication's site.

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Great insight for artists

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Great Day at the MET

7/15/2022

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sketch of a sculpture by Frederick Wellington Ruckstull

Today was another trip to the MET and I absorb a bunch of great works. I even got to see a Michelangelo up close in the prints and drawing room.
I spent most of my time in the American wing and discovered some new pieces, including a beautiful and somber portrait by Cecilia Beaux.
It was a very full day and I'm looking forward to a restful weekend!

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Florence Academy Grad School - Year 2 | Progress

7/14/2022

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This semester of grad school is going by very quickly and I'm really learning a ton of information. We're working with the live figure this year and doing some mastercopies as well. Below is a gallery of a few of the drawings that I've been working on; the first two are life drawings and the next two images are of a Prud'hon mastercopy. The mastercopy has been very challenging and is teaching me a lot.
I'm very grateful that this MA in Studio Arts program exists because I'm learning techniques and skills that I've dreamed about for a very long time. We're going back to the MET tomorrow and I'm excited to start painting in the next few weeks.

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MET - Winslow Homer Show, Frits Thaulow and Master Drawings

7/8/2022

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Had a trip to the MET today and saw the Winslow Homer exhibit. The exhibit is quite large and contains many iconic Homer works. Some of the works I've seen before in Philadelphia's museums when I was a student. I'm not a huge Homer fan, but I'm fond of his watercolors, which are very vivid and nice to see in person. I didn't bother to take photos of his oils because the photos don't do justice and looked like garbage. The other image below is a Frits Thaulow that I was also admiring.
Prior to seeing these works, our Florence Academy group got up close with some master drawings in the MET's drawing and prints department library, which you can access by appointment only. We saw works by Rubens, Goya, Lagros, Allan Ramsay, Ribera, among others. We got to sketch from these drawings without any glass between us and the drawings. It was a cool experience.