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Hunting Tails Graphite Drawing

Art Sz: 11"H x 8"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 5 3/4"W x 11 3/4"H Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 10"H x 9"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

Art Sz: 11"H x 9"W Provenance: Gillian Dupont's The Old Habit Tack Shop Marshall, VA

SACHA (American, b. 1965) La Sevillana, 2004 Pencil on paper 20 x 16 in. Signed lower right: Sacha '04 Inscribed lower left: "La Sevillana" Alejandro Jose Franco or better known as ...

Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees. This charcoal drawing entitled “Fusion” beautifully illustrates the collision of two young birch trees. Loosely drawn with short, lateral strokes, the drawing depicts the slow process of two trees fusing together as a graceful gesture of physical touch. The horizontal motion of the sketch-like linework captures the striated texture of birch bark, punctuated by the irregular forms of its eye-shaped markings. The light-colored trees are contrasted by a dark backdrop, a void of negative that isolates the trees in space and time. Restricting the composition to only a portion of the tree trunks, Surdo accentuates their abstract forms and focuses on the simple beauty of their graceful movements. Guided by his memory, Surdo recalls the trees as soft, gentle and calm, leaning in on each other in a tender embrace. His freeform, expressive style reveals the subjectivity of this memory and finishes the composition with a transient, dream-like atmosphere. Charcoal on paper...

Pair of graphite drawings after Ossip Alexeevich Zadkine Osip Alekseyevich Tsadkin; 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Russian and French artist of the School of Paris.[1] He...

Todd Siler (American, b. 1953) Untitled, c. Late 20th Century Pen/ink on paper Framed: 32 3/4 x 24 in. Signed verso The following, submitted August 2005, is from the artist. The Am...