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Drawings & Sketches

75,648 works

Winter view of Niagara Falls with snow-covered rocks, the Terrapin Tower, rising mist and a snowy treeline.

Niagara Falls and Terrapin Tower in Snow, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of layered clouds over a mountain ridge on tan paper, with handwritten color notes and numerals.

Cloudy Sky over Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pen and wash drawing of gnarled cypress trees beside a stone arched wall in a park landscape.

Study for The Cypress Trees of Montezuma, Park of Chapultepec, Mexico

Samuel Colman, 1890

Pencil and white-highlight sketch of a rugged mountain basin with snow streaks, cliffs, and boulders on tan paper.

Mt. Katahdin from the North Basin, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil sketch of a mountain landscape with distant peaks and handwritten notes about light and color on pale paper.

Mountain Landscape, Colombia or Ecuador

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil and white-highlight sketch of snowy alpine peaks above a forested valley with clouds, inscribed Berchtesgaden.

The Watzmann and Hochkalter from Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of tall pine trees in a misty forest with handwritten color notes including smoke and fog-yellow gray.

Campfire in the Woods, Millinocket, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Graphite sketch of clouds over water and a distant shoreline, with handwritten colour notes in the margins.

Clouds over the Hudson River Valley, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of clouds and horizontal landscape lines on tan paper with handwritten colour notes in the lower right.

Sunset over the Hudson Valley, Part One

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Oil sketch of a rocky cliff above a pine forest reflected in an alpine lake, with distant peaks under a hazy sky.

The Hintersee, near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria (Germany)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Grey wash drawing of Yosemite granite domes with a tiny figure walking a winding path through dark rocks in the foreground.

Back of the South Dome from the Nevada Trail, Yosemite

Thomas Moran, 1890

Pencil sketch of ruined stone walls and rubble across a rocky field, with handwritten colour notes above.

Ruins, Burek, Syria

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a mountain valley with ridges and rock, with handwritten color notes in the upper right.

Rainbow in the Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a sailboat and distant islands at sunset, with handwritten colour notes along the lower edge.

Patmos at Sunset, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a steep green hillside with red flowering shrubs, a dirt path, and a rounded summit under a pale sky.

Steep Hillside, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of a snowy hillside with dark trees and an orange sunset glow beneath pink and gold clouds.

Winter at the Farm, Hudson, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1880

Pencil sketch of a rock outcrop under soft clouds, with handwritten color notes like purple shadow and blood red.

Clouds at Sunset over Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a distant domed basilica on a low horizon, with handwritten colour notes about the sky and clouds.

Distant View of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Pencil sketch of a hill, rock strata, and two small figures, with handwritten color notes on cream paper.

Landscape Sketches with Figures, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Oil sketch of autumn maple trees with red and orange leaves, boulders on a grassy slope, and rolling hills under grey sky.

Woods in Autumn, Vermont

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Watercolor textile design with pink carnations on a zigzag stem and botanical sprigs in vertical panels with dotted borders.

Printed Textile Design: F

Louis-Albert DuBois, 1810

Pencil landscape sketch of rolling hills under a pale sky, with handwritten colour notes in the corners.

View from Olana, Middle of Afternoon

Frederic Edwin Church, 1870

Pencil and white chalk drawing of foaming rapids in a wooded gorge, with a suspension bridge and train in the distance.

The Gorge of the Niagara River, New York

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Pencil sketch of a large tree beside a river with distant hills and palm trees receding into pale mist.

One of One Hundred and Seventy-six Drawings of India by Thomas and William Daniell Grouped by "Voyages," "South India…

Charcoal drawing of ruined multi-storey buildings with empty windows above rubble-strewn street, by Werner Heldt, 1948.

Häuser in Trümmern

Werner Heldt, 1948

Charcoal sketch with red chalk of a bald, mustached man in a suit and tie, facing the viewer directly.

Selbstbildnis en face

Max Liebermann, 1922

Pencil sketch of a domed pavilion among trees and low walls in an open landscape.

Landscape Sketch

Loose ink sketch of two women seated together at a table, drawn with quick looping lines and hatched shading.

Zwei Frauen am Tisch

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1907

Loose ink sketch of sailboats and rowboats in a harbor beside a building with an awning at right.

Segelboothafen an der Alster

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910

Brown wash drawing of a dancing woman with tambourine, a bagpiper, a cow and goats in a pastoral landscape.

1648 Lorrain Tänzerin mit Tamburin und Dudelsackspieler anagoria

Claude Lorrain, 1648

Pencil sketch of a rural landscape with wooden huts, a small figure, trees and a path across open ground.

Detail eines Flachsfeldes in Neusalz an der Oder

Otto Scholderer, 1886

(Verworfene) Frauenfigur für die "Vorbereitung zum Kostümball" (?)

Otto Scholderer, 1879