Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils among others

among others

Peterson inserts contemporary African Americans into the history of portraiture—which has traditionally memorialized the rich

” a gunmetal grey finish and iconic square Blackwing ferrule with a pink eraser

Representing a group of more than three hundred similar sketches executed late in life

The freshness and authority in this selection of Dove's late work is evidence of his lifelong interest in the distillation of natural forms as well as his enduring commitment to technical experimentation

Kansas Cornfield Curry Print Pencils among othersWhen John Steuart Curry was growing up on his family farm in Kansas, he would often wander into the high fields of corn. "I remember," he wrote, "wandering through them and being overpowered by the fear of being lost in their green confines." At age 35, Curry returned to those fields to capture the same sense of drama he felt, "beneath our wind blown Kansas skies." Curry rejected the modernists' tendencies toward abstraction and instead developed a