Show Notes
We're back!
This is the second part of our deep dive on drawing. I asked my artist-guests: Jennifer Coates, David Humphrey and Catherine Haggarty to bring along a fave drawing from art history to share and describe what "drew" them to it (please forgive the pun). It was so fun to see what they selected.
See images of all of the works on IG @peptalksforartists
The drawings discussed were:
1) "The Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli" ca 1640 by Claude Lorrain
2) Rocks near the caves above Château Noir (Rochers à Bibémus) 1895/00 by Paul Cézanne, Watercolor on paper 18¼ by 12 in.
3) "Moon and Clouds" 1945 by George Ault
4) Ledger Drawing ca. 1875-78 attributed to William Cohoe, Cheyenne, Central Plains, Inscribed "Cheyenne Soldiers"
Find my guests online here:
David Humprhrey: web and IG
Jennifer Coates: web and IG
Catherine Haggarty: web and IG
See more Ledger Drawings at DonaldEllisGallery.com:
https://www.donaldellisgallery.com/offerings/plains-indian-drawings
Artists also mentioned: Georges Seurat ("Monkey"), Alexander Cozens, Caspar David Friedrich, Julia Gleich (choreographer)
Books mentioned: "Lake Superior" by Lorine Niedecker, "Keeping Time: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings 1865-1900" (pub by Donald Ellis Gallery)
Catherine's show "Just Drawing" online at Geary Contemporary: https://geary.nyc/exhibition/just-drawing-catherine-haggarty/
You can watch the original IG Live video of my guests' panel talk at Geary here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9qMilKRs-f/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Thank you for listening!
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