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Drawings & Sketches

77,457 works

Pen and ink sketch of a sword with an ornate hilt beside a carved chest with decorative panels on pale paper.

Small suitcase and sword

Pencil sketch of a bare hickory tree with a textured trunk and spreading branches on cream paper.

Hickory

George Elbert Burr, 1880

Pastel portrait of an elderly bearded man with grey hair in a brown robe against a dark background.

R. D. Shepherd as Shylock

Alice Pike Barney, 1920

Charcoal sketch of an interior with seated and standing figures around a long bench, with jars on a shelf behind.

An accident

Watercolor of a pine branch with clusters of green cones with brown-tipped scales and long green needles on a pale background

Single-Leaf Pine (Pinus monophylla)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a hybrid pitcher plant with two stems of pink nodding flowers and maroon pitcher leaves.

Hybrid Pitcherplant (Sarracenia minor x psittacina)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Pencil sketch of a horse pulling a cart with a large wheel along a road beside trees, with a man in a hat.

Untitled (Horse Drawn Cart)

Howard Russell Butler

Major General Rufus Ingalls

James Edward Kelly, 1900

Watercolor of a crossvine branch with red trumpet-shaped flowers flaring to yellow-orange tips and green leaves.

Crossvine (Anisostichus capreolatus)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1925

Pen drawing of a stone arched bridge over a river, with dense trees on the right bank and a pale sky.

Landscape with a Stone Bridge

Jacob van Ruisdael, 1647

Pencil sketch of the riverside town St. Goar on the Rhine with a church spire, barges on the water, and steep wooded hills.

St. Goar from Castle Rheinfels

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Pencil sketch of a lake with a tower, poplar trees, a sailboat and mountains, in an open sketchbook.

(Sketchbook) Vevey La Tour

George Elbert Burr, 1890

Watercolor of a fishing boat heeling in rough green seas, crew huddled aboard, with another sailing vessel behind it.

Fishing boat at sea

George Henry Andrews

Watercolor of three pitcher plants with tubular green leaves and cream and red hooded flowers on a pale background.

Hybrid Pitcherplant (Sarracenia minor)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Watercolor of a tall yucca stalk with pale green bell-shaped flowers and purple-tipped buds among long green leaves.

Yucca (Yucca baileyi)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1928

Pastel portrait of a young man with short hair, head and bare shoulders turned left, on a tan paper ground.

Christian

Alice Pike Barney, 1910

Pen and ink sheet with four studies of muscular arms and clenched fists in different poses.

Four Arm Studies, #1

Solon H. Borglum, 1890

Watercolor of a thorny rose branch with serrated green leaves and clusters of bright red rose hips on a pale background.

Bourgeau Rose (Rosa bourgeauiana)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Pencil sketch of the Taieri River between steep cliffs and hills, with a small boat on the water.

Taieri River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Pencil and crayon sketch of a bearded elderly man in a long robe, arranged in three vertical stained glass panels.

Wernyhora, design of the stained glass for the cathedral in Krakow

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1900

Watercolor of a mistletoe branch with clusters of white berries and oval green leaves on a pale background.

American Mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Charcoal drawing of a man's head and shoulders in three-quarter view, with faint sketches of other figures around it.

Self Portrait

James Ensor, 1879

Watercolor of a larch branch with clustered green needles and several hanging cones with red-tipped scales on cream paper.

Western Larch (Larix occidentalis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Lucy

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pastel portrait of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat with yellow pompoms and a white shawl, against green hatched strokes.

Spanish Fantasy III

Alice Pike Barney, 1930

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a straw hat reading while reclining among large ferns on pale blue paper.

Lynwood

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of white dawnrose flowers with yellow stamens, grey-green lobed leaves and buds on reddish stems against pale pape

White Dawnrose (Pachyloplus marginatus)

Mary Vaux Walcott

Pencil sketch of fishing boats with masts in a harbor, with a church tower and rooftops behind.

Untitled (Fishing Boats)

Howard Russell Butler

Red chalk sketch of a reclining nude woman with one arm raised behind her head, signed John Sloan.

Model Resting

Watercolour of riders and a pack horse crossing a rocky stream through a dense forest with large trees.

Crossing the Teremakau River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1876

Loose oil sketch of a reclining king on a bed amid nude women, warriors, a gold-harnessed horse, and gold objects.

La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse

Eugène Delacroix, 1826

Pastel sketch by Edvard Munch with swirling abstract forms, a red curtain, and a small dancing figure in the upper left.

Sketches

Edvard Munch, 1910