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Drawings & Sketches

76,768 works

Brown wash drawing of a rider on a flying horse above clouds and rocky hills, with figures below.

Rinaldo, Astride Baiardo, Flies Off in Pursuit of Angelica

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1795

Pencil sketch of a wooden manufacturing machine with a toothed gear, lever and open hatch on a pale sheet.

(Iowa State Capitol Rotunda) (Manufactures, study for panel)

Pastel drawing of a sunlit colonial graveyard with weathered arched headstones, grass, a brick wall and trees.

Colonial Graveyard at Lexington

Childe Hassam, 1890

Watercolor and ink landscape of a valley under stormy clouds, with blue mountains and a winding river in the foreground.

Storm Weather, Ronda, Spain

Muirhead Bone, 1925

Pencil sketch of a calm shoreline with marsh grasses, shrubs and trees on the right and water extending to a distant horizon.

Untitled (Shoreline)

Howard Russell Butler

Pen drawing of plant stems, buds and leaves with a central tower-like form radiating lines, on aged paper.

"Sound Construction" study

Solon H. Borglum, 1910

Pastel portrait of a young girl with long brown hair beside a fluffy gray cat with green eyes.

Minette and Minet

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pencil sketch of a stone archway and columns with carved ornament and a small figure in a niche at upper left.

Untitled - Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

The Feathered Hat

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Loose watercolor sketch of a hooded woman in a cloak beside a tree, with a shadowy standing figure in the distant woods.

Figure in woods - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Charcoal sketch of two bears, one in the foreground and one behind it, drawn in loose dark tonal strokes on cream paper.

Bears

Henry Keller, 1930

Dreamland

Alice Pike Barney, 1900

Pen and ink sketch of hands and a sleeve with a small ornate finial in the lower right corner.

Hands and ornament

Pencil sketch of an arched mural composition with standing draped figures, architectural forms and loose scribbled lines on a

Composition study for "Science Revealing the Treasures...": sketch for mural for the state capitol building in Harris…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1902

(Untitled--Head, Two Women, studies)

George Grey Barnard, 1920

(Iowa State Capitol Rotunda) (Agriculture, study for panel)

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pastel drawing of a snowy road lined with bare trees, with distant hills under a pale blue winter sky.

View of Kościuszko Mound from the artist's atelier

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Pastel portrait of a young blonde woman in a dark garment with a gold necklace, against a red background, with the name Berth

Bertha

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a two-masted sailing boat on misty, calm water near a shoreline in Nevin, North Wales.

Foggy Morning, Nevin, North Wales

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil and colored pencil architectural sketch of a sculpture pedestal with zigzag frieze and arches, labeled in Polish.

Decorative motifs (

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1904

Sketchbook page with charcoal head of a woman in bonnet and ruff, and pen sketches of a man carrying a basket.

Head of a woman and figures

Sketch of a worker laying red bricks along a plank, with a bucket and sacks beside him, drawn in charcoal and colored crayon.

Bricklayer

Edvard Munch, 1929

Pencil sketch of a row of leafy trees above a flat meadow, with handwritten inscription about Windsor below.

In the Meadows at Windsor

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Pencil sketch of several nude figures in swimming and diving poses on tan paper, covered by tissue.

Swimming Nudes

Solon H. Borglum, 1920

Pastel design study with a central orange and red triangular arch, yellow side forms and scalloped border on torn tan paper.

Decorative motifs for the polychrome of the crossing part of the Franciscan Church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Open sketchbook with pencil drawing of trees, a small building and mountains near Sion, dated March 1894.

(Sketchbook) Near Sion

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor of a carved Egyptian temple gateway with palm trees, broken statue fragments in the foreground, and small figures.

The Temple at Karnak

Henry Roderick Newman, 1850

Pastel portrait of a seated woman in a yellow dress and green turban, arms resting on a carved wooden chair.

Laura Dreyfus Barney

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Untitled (Seated Draped Female Figure, Profile)

Louise Cox, 1900

Pencil sketch of a crowd of figures marching across a dim, open field on tan paper.

The Night March

Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1820

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a schooner at anchor with a rowboat, two sailors, and a buoy on choppy gray water.

Schooner at Anchor

Winslow Homer, 1884

Pencil sketch of an arched interior with a balustrade and a mural above, including a lion figure.

Drawing after John Singer Sargent's "Prophets" mural in Boston

Edwin Austin Abbey