"You can never do too much drawing." Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), Venetian painter....

"You can never do too much drawing."

Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594), Venetian painter.

Quoted by Evelyn M. Phillipps, Tintoretto, 1911

Giorgio Morandi Still life, 1928 (Vitali n. 46)

etching on copper, 252 x 349 mm www.museomorandi.it

Studies of a Rooster and a Monkey Pisanello (c1438)http://devers.cc.nd.edu/cgi-bin

Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Pisanello (attr) Five Men in Contemporary Dress and a Dragon Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Pisanello (workshop) Biblioteca Ambrosiana

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing." Vincent van GoghLetter 13624 September 1880

          Arles: View from the Wheat FieldArles: 6-8 August 1888(Los Angeles, Getty Center)F 1492, JH 1544

                                   Barn Owl Viewed from the FrontParis: April-September, 1887

(Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum)F 1373v, JH 1189

               Blossoming BranchesAuvers-sur-Oise: June-July, 1890

(Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum)F 1612, JH 2059

                   Branch with LeavesAuvers-sur-Oise: June-July, 1890

(Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum)F 1614, JH 2060

                                            Canal with Bridge and Women WashingArles: first half April, 1888(Munich, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung)F 1473, JH 1405

                                                                                                                                                                     Churchyard in WinterNuenen: December, 1883

(Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum)F 1236r, JH 432

Piet Mondrian, Chrysanthemum, 1908–09. Charcoal on paper, 10 x 11 1/4 inches.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 61.1589. Piet Mondrian © 2003

Piet Mondrian, The Sea, 1914. Charcoal and gouache on paper, mounted on panel, paper 87.6 x

120.3 cm; panel 90.2 x 123 x 1.3 cm.

Peggy Guggenheim Collection. 76.2553 PG 38. Piet Mondrian © 2003

Artist/MakerJerome Myers (1867–1940) Title/Object NameTwo Figures in a Park Date1911 MediumGraphite on off-white wove paper Dimensions12 x 7 5/8 in. (30.5 x 19.5 cm)

Artist/Maker John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) Title/Object Name Chariot (from scrapbook) Date ca. 1878 Credit Line (Accession No.)Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.154e6)

Three Dancers Preparing for Class, after 1878

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Pastel on buff-colored wove paper; 21 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (54.6 x 52.1 cm)

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.558)

Édouard Manet, Seated, ca. 1866-68; 19th CenturyHilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (French (Paris 1834-1917 Paris)); portrait of Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832-1883 Paris)French; made FranceRogers Fund, 1918 (19.51.7)

Artist/Maker Arthur B. Davies (1862–1928) Title/Object Name A Road in FranceMedium Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper Dimensions 13 13/16 x 19 13/16 in. (35.2 x 50.3 cm)

The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine), 1818Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780-1867 Paris); commissioned by Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg (Austrian Ambassador to Rome in 1818)French; depicted Austriansgraphite; 11-7/8 x 8-3/4 in. (30.1 x 22.2 cm)Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1998 (1998.21)

•"If I live to be ninety,

• I'll have learned to draw."

•Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), •Japanese artist. •Hokusai Sketchbook: Selections from Manga, •edited by James Michener, 1958.

Hokusai Measuring a Pine Tree

Leonidas at Thermopylae, ca. 1814Jacques-Louis David (French, Paris 1748-1825 Brussels) made FranceBlack chalk, squared in black chalk; 16 x 21 5/8 in. (40.6 x 54.9 cm)Rogers Fund, 1963 (63.1)

The Last Supper, after Leonardo da Vinci, 1634–1635Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)Dutch Red chalk; 14 1/4 x 18 11/16 in. (36.2 x 47.5 cm)Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.794)

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), 1508-12

Made by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475 - 1564 Rome)ItalianRed chalk (recto); charcoal or black chalk (verso); 11-3/8 x 8-7/16 in. (28.9 x 21.4 cm)Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924 (24.197.2)

Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863Moroccan Notebook 1832Brown pen and ink with watercolourH 10.5 cm; W 9.8cm

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres1780-1867

Studies of Female NudesCharcoal and black crayonH 0.620 m; W 0.450 m

Michelangelo Buonarroti1475-1563

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Red chalkH 0.111 m; W 0.013 mINV 10161

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes1746-1828

Es el Dia de su Santo

Brush and grey washH 0.235 m; W 0.146 mRF 6912

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of 'art for art's sake.' No! I have simply wanted to draw from a thorough knowledge of tradition the reasoned and free sense of my own individuality. To know in order to do: such has been my thought. To be able to translate the customs, ideas, and appearance of my time as I see them-- in a word, to create a living art-- this has been my aim." Gustave Courbet, preface to World's Fair catalogue, 1855.

Jean-Désiré-Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877), Portrait of Juliette Courbet as a Sleeping Child, 1841, graphite on paper, Musée d'Orsay

Augustus John (English, 1878-1961), W.B. Yeats, 1907, pencil on paper, 35.3 x 25.3 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See portrait.

Head of the Virgin, 1508-1512

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452-1519 Cloux (near Amboise))Italian

Soft black and red chalks; traces of framing outline in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo); 8 x 6-1/8 in. (20.3 x 15.6 cm)Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1951 (51.90)

Leonardo da Vinci, Womb, or "The Foetus in Utero," 1489, red crayon and pen and ink, Collection of Queen Elizabeth II, Windsor Castle. Skull and Womb are among the huge number of anatomical drawings Leonardo made, to most of which he added written notes. He said he had dissected over thirty human bodies -- men and women of various ages.

Leonardo da Vinci

Section of a Human Skull

Henry Fuseli

(English, born Switzerland, 1741-1825), Self-Portrait as a Faun [verso: Head of a Woman Three-Quarters to Left ], pencil and chalk on paper, 32.2 x 42.7 cm, Tate Gallery, London. See Romanticism and self-portrait.

Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973), Spirals, no date, c. 1970, graphite drawing on paper, 9 x 12 inches

Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973), Spiral Jetty, 1970, black basalt rocks, earth and salt crystals, coil: 1,500 x 15 feet, stretching out counterclockwise into the translucent red water of Great Salt Lake, UT

PisanelloPisa, c.1395-Pisa 1455Head and neck of a harnessed horse, looking away to the right, the bridle hangingPen and brown ink. Watermarked paperH 0.266 m; W. 0.171 mINV 2359

Claudio Bravo

(Chilean, 1936-),

White Cloth, black conté on paper, 34.9 x 27.9 cm, 1991 Ubicación Colección Particular