Drawings: Portraits (modern)

One of my recurring interests is "drawing," in the sense of drawings that might interest a collector or a museum.   Recently I came across a page on Eye Contact: Modern American Portrait Drawings from the National Portrait Gallery, a touring exhibition. 

My particular interest is, I suppose, drawings made with as few materials as possible.   Below are some portraits done in graphite, charcoal, ink or ink wash. 

Graphite --
Milton Avery
Truman Capote
Ornette Coleman
Hart Crane
Stuart Davis
W. C. Fields
Jamie Wyeth

Charcoal --
Paul Haviland
Edward Hopper
Henry James
John Steinbeck
Igor Stravinsky
John Twachtman

Ink --
Rico Lebrun,
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bill Robinson (Bojangles)

Ink wash --
Harold Rosenberg

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Drawings done in gouache, pastel, or watercolor seem to me almost a different genre, because the image receives so much assistance from the color media.   

Gouache --
Alice B. Toklas

Pastel --
James Baldwin
Countee Cullen
B. Delaney
Frances Perkins
Everitt Shinn

Watercolor --
Mark Strand

Comments

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Kind wishes for the New Year!

I love these last posts for 2007. Will bookmark the doll house and take some time to enjoy the drawings you found.