Clay Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

The new works of Mylinh Nguyen designed from polymer resin, bring us into a nature whose refinement commands admiration. From the physiognomy of living or extinct plant species, the ...

The new works of Mylinh Nguyen designed from polymer resin, bring us into a nature whose refinement commands admiration. From the physiognomy of living or extinct plant species, the ...

This painted work-on-paper is an abstract geometric design that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The...

This painted work-on-paper is an abstract geometric design that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The...

This painted work-on-paper is an abstract geometric design that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The...

This painted work-on-paper is an abstract geometric design that references colors, shapes, and aesthetics that artist Nancy Agati encountered in Italy. The...

18th Century French Sanguine drawing, possibly a preparatory sketch for the painting by Nattier after the painting by Rubens. Presented in shaped 'marie-louise' mount in plain gold wood frame with collection label. The subject is the Queen Marie de' Medici seated on a grand throne, the baby is in the arms of Health while Justice looks over him. Fecundity brings a cornucopia of fruit with the heads of the other children the Queen will bear. The Sun rides his chariot across the sky to indicate that Louis XIII was born in the morning and the calm figure of France surveys the whole scene. An engraving exists (see the Wellcome Collection) of this same image: 'The birth of King Louis XIII', after the engraving by B. Audran the younger after the painting by Jean-Marc Nattier after the oil painting of Peter Paul Rubens in the Louvre 'La Naissance du Dauphin (future Louis XIII) à Fontainebleau, le 27 septembre 1601'. Jean-Marc Nattier (17 March 1685 – 7 November 1766) was a French painter. He was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois (1655–1703), a miniaturist. He is noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire. He received his first instruction from his father, and from his uncle, the history painter Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717). He enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1703 and applied himself to copying pictures in the Luxembourg Palace, making a series of drawings of the Marie de Médici painting...

Agati’s sweeping curves and interweaving lines are reminiscent of Italian Baroque architectural ornamentation and the time-honored lace making traditions of Sicily. Her mixed media w...

Through drawing and mark-making, Nancy Agati investigates geometry, explores elements of growth, and seeks to reveal a sense of order or elegance. She is interested in the organic na...

Through drawing and mark-making, Nancy Agati investigates geometry, explores elements of growth, and seeks to reveal a sense of order or elegance. She is interested in the organic na...

Through drawing and mark-making, Nancy Agati investigates geometry, explores elements of growth, and seeks to reveal a sense of order or elegance. She is interested in the organic na...

In " A Twenty-First Century Symbolism---Susan Schwalb's Metalpoint Art", Siba Kumar Das states, "Susan Schwalb began her metalpoint career making drawings of orchids, a motif carrying for her deep personal resonances. When you gaze at her Orchid Transformation #2, which she drew in 1978, you will be struck by the flower’s beauty and nearly muscular power and vibrancy, and as you keep looking, you will perceive that it is not just alive, as if it were an actual organism---it is also a symbol for life or rather the way in which life embodies a synthesis of spirituality and sensuality, stillness amid rhythm and vitality. When I first saw the drawing I thought of Joseph Stella’s naturalia, but I realized that Schwalb’s orchid art...