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Drawings & Sketches

77,767 works

Watercolor of a common pitcherplant with green and maroon pitcher leaves and a red nodding flower on a tall stem.

Common Pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea venosa)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1931

Pencil and red chalk sketch of standing and seated figures on a pale ground, a preparatory study for On the Beach.

On the Beach

Edvard Munch, 1940

Pencil drawing of a man and a woman walking forward along a sloping path under a pale, cloudy sky.

On the march. Spring is coming. Into the future

Karl Wiener, 1930

Watercolor of red tubular monkey flowers with serrated green leaves and buds on branching stems, against a cream background.

Cardinal Monkey Flower (Mimulus cardinalis)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1927

Watercolour of a sandy beach and rocky headland with three small figures walking by the sea under a pale sky.

Point Elizabeth looking SSW

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Pencil sketch of stylized bellflowers and leaves on tracing paper, a trial design for church presbytery decoration.

"Bellflowers." Trial proof for painted decoration of the presbytery of the Franciscan church in Kraków

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1895

Watercolor of three rosebud orchid flowers with curled petals and pink lips on slender green stems with narrow leaves.

Rosebud Orchid (Pogonia divaricata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1920

Watercolor of a pink rhododendron branch with open blossoms, a bud, and long green leaves on a pale background.

Rose-Bay Rhododendron (Rhododendron carolinianum)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1930

Half-circle oil sketch of arid mountains with snow peaks, red-ochre tones, and animals grazing by water.

Untitled (sketch for mural in Eastern Oregon)

C. S. Price, 1940

Study for female figure in engraved illustration to Amor Mundi

Frederick Sandys

Watercolor landscape of a green meadow, a tall tree at center, distant hills, and a cloudy pale blue sky.

Landscape

Attributed to George Inness, n.d.

Charcoal sketch of a woman with folded arms standing beside a man smoking, with a cushioned divan behind them.

Couple for daybed

James Ensor, 1880

Colored drawing of a village with a church spire behind gabled houses, a fenced meadow and water in the foreground.

View of the Molenpad in Nieuwendam

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Watercolor of a Dutchman's pipe vine with broad leaves, curved purple-marked flowers, and long green seed pods.

Dutchman's Pipe

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1934

Watercolor of a milkweed stem with clustered pale flowers and long serrated green leaves on a cream background.

Milkweed (Ascelpias)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1924

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a village street with gabled houses, red roofs, trees and a lone pedestrian.

View of a street in Nieuwendam

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a village street with gabled houses, red roofs, trees, a cart and pedestrians.

View of the Nieuwendammerdijk

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Pencil sketch of figures in an interior on canvas, with scattered green, yellow and red paint touches.

Variation on

Edvard Munch, 1925

Loose pencil sketch of flowing figures above horizontal waves and a boat shape on tan paper, dated 1896.

Gods going to the Ethiopians (?), drawing for the

Stanisław Wyspiański, 1896

Pencil drawing of a village road lined with trees, gabled houses on the left, and a wooden footbridge over a canal on the rig

View of the Schellingwouderdijk

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Pencil drawing of a windmill with outbuildings beside a reed-lined waterway, under a cloudy sky.

View of windmill De Pauw

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Charcoal portrait of a young woman with pinned-back hair in a dark high-necked blouse, turned to the left, on tan paper.

Portrait of a Young Woman

Pekka Halonen, 1890

Drawing of a canal farmhouse, a wooden bridge and a raised drawbridge between tall trees, with meadows beyond.

View of the Meerbrug in Nieuwendam

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Pencil drawing of a raised drawbridge over a canal with reeds, a red-roofed house, a street lamp, and a cloudy sky.

View of the Meerbrug in Nieuwendam

Anthonie van Teijn, 1873

Pencil drawing of a village church with a spire beside a calm canal, with barns, a haystack and meadows under cloudy sky.

View of the Schellingwouderkerk

Anthonie van Teijn, 1928

Watercolor of a newsboy in a green jacket and blue cap holding a newspaper labeled The Sun beside a chain fence.

The Newsboy

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Two sailing boats on rough night water under a full moon behind clouds, with figures on the foreground deck.

Fishing boats in moonlight

George Henry Andrews, 1869

Watercolor of a Douglas fir branch with green needles and three hanging brown cones on a pale background.

Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga mucronata)

Mary Vaux Walcott, 1923

Pen drawing of a shadowy alley with an arched doorway, lit wall lantern and hatched cobblestones, titled Auf der Lauer.

On the lookout

Karl Wiener, 1922

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a flooded village landscape with farmhouses, a windmill and a distant church tower under clo

View of Ransdorp during the storm surge of 1916

Hobbe Smith, 1916

Queen Bianca, sketch

Albert Edelfelt, 1876

Decorative mural study of ocean liners, a warship, and sailing boats before a stylized city skyline with airships overhead.

Shipping (mural study)

Griffith Baily Coale, 1920