Sketches of Hands, Arms, and Heads
1890 · Graphite, with touches of watercolor, on tan wove card · 15.9 × 12.9 cm (6 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Menzel, Sketches of Hands, Arms, and Heads, 1890. Graphite, with touches of watercolor, on tan wove card.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Gift of Mrs. Estella Katzenellenbogen
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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