Sir Muirhead Bone

Liverpool Cathedral

1913 · graphite

Liverpool Cathedral, Muirhead Bone, 1913 — Muirhead Bone, Liverpool Cathedral, 1913. graphite.
The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund

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Step back until the detail vanishes and see what is left. That is the drawing.
Find the lightest sky and how it is held by the darkest vertical.

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Liverpool Cathedral under scaffolding
A cathedral being built, in pencil, with most of the sheet left bare
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