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Japanese, Japan

Sketch of Ducks and Plum Blossoms, 1800s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Japanese

Title

Sketch of Ducks and Plum Blossoms

Year

1800s

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Image: 55.2 x 40 cm (21 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches)

Place

Japan

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mark S. Pratt

Object Number

2020.46.26

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Works in Process

July 31, 2021 - January 23, 2022

Birds are the focus of these studies in graphite and ink. Each composition, whether a preparatory sketch or an investigative study, is carefully articulated, revealing the artist’s varied interests and intentions.

Using colored pencils, Joseph Stella meticulously rendered the subject of his study, a wood duck, capturing its feathery texture with layered, repetitive lines. Despite the softness conveyed, Stella also leans into a pronounced angularity, perhaps a hint at his cubist predilections. In contrast, the monochromatic sketches are composed of rapidly executed lines that reveal the artists’ planning processes as they each created a foundational work for a painting or print. [see also 81.233 and 84.230.5].

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