The Card Game
1899 · Graphite and fabricated black chalk, with stumping, erasing, and scraping, with touches of brush and black ink, on cream wove paper, edge mounted on ivory wove card · Primary support: 19.8 × 26.7 cm (7 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Secondary support: 26.1 × 33.5 cm (10 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
Menzel, The Card Game, 1899. Graphite and fabricated black chalk, with stumping, erasing, and scraping, with touches of brush and black ink, on cream wove paper, edge mounted on ivory wove card.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
How to look at a Menzel
- Find the darkest passage and notice it is burnished, not hatched.
- Follow a single edge and see where it is hard, where it is lost, and why.
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