There are 24 charcoal drawings now on display at the Museum of Modern Art that Willem de Kooning did with his eyes closed. This was not an uncommon thing for de Kooning, who often liked to close ...

No, he never stopped doing portraits. The Morgan Library has a beautiful new show on Sargent’s late charcoal portrait drawings from around 1905 through the early 1920s. The drawings aren’t big.

Even in later drawings of EOW, where his older lover is looking directly out at us, it’s the torn surfaces and startling highlights created by swiping an eraser over the charcoal that catch our ...

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Kenneth Baker has been art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1985. A native of the Boston area, he served as art critic for the Boston Phoenix between 1972 and 1985.

John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal is the first exhibition of Sargent’s portrait drawings in over fifty years. This once-in-a-lifetime assemblage of master drawings—many of them from private ...

There are 40 charcoal drawings inside Dunbar Cave, about 200 yards from the entrance. Their meanings remain a mystery as the Mississippian culture dates back about 1,000 to 500 years ago.

The drawing was dated to about 32,000 years ago, the charcoal from the ledge to about 35,000.